For almost a week Maurice H. and I watched a cut-off low pressure weather mass that was wandering around in the Pacific down by the border with Mexico in preparing for a cross-country flight into Arizona. This sort of weather phenomena brings lousy weather with it. When it seemed like the weather was headed south […]
Anacapa Island and a “Giant Kelpfish”
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My dive buddy, Phil Wilson, snapped this picture of a “Giant Kelpfish” I spotted on September 19, 2015, while we were diving off Anacapa Island. The fish was shy and we saw it for less than a minute, if that long. Time for only the one picture. I’m guessing this one measured about twelve inches, […]
Anacapa Island SCUBA dive
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My first SCUBA dive experiences in the waters off Southern California were, for me anyway, not much fun. I went for my very first two certification dives at the SCUBA park on Catalina Island. Had it not been for equipment malfunctions I might have done my next two there to finish up the cert. I won’t go […]
Noble Model 60G, 12Ga., Bolt Assembly
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Noble Model 60G, 12Ga., Pump Shotgun Bolt Installation By Casey Wilson More than just a couple decades ago, I picked up a Noble Model 60G for the purpose of giving my kids (2 boys, 2 girls) an opportunity to learn gun safety and maybe have a little fun along the way. It’s not a classic, […]
Sometimes Good Ideas are Not
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Florence and I used to make up a batch of chicken pot pies in individual servings and freeze them for later convenience. She fabricated the crusts and I made up the fillings. Recently, I decided that I really needed to put up a batch of pot pies to help me maintain my efforts in sloughing […]
2015 Independence Day Fireworks
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Fireworks happen in the blink of an eye. During that blink the brain registers a brilliant flash of color that is almost instantly washed away by the next event. The photos, taken with a Canon DSLR 60D captured the detail, the beauty that was too quick for the eye/brain to appreciate. I hope you enjoy these […]
Ring-Ring Almost Cancelled My Copper Wire Telephone Service
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Because I’ve more or less quit using my landline phone and gone more or less exclusively to my cellular gizmo, I decided to abandon the copper connection to the world and have my ‘hanging on the wall’ instrument disconnected. No easy decision that. The number in the telephone directory hasn’t changed in 45 years although […]
A Most Remarkable Experience
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Have you ever felt like jumping into an aquarium? Well, we didn’t actually jump in. We climbed down a steel ladder. Geoffrey and Phillip, my two sons, and I are certified, card-carrying SCUBA divers. Between the three of us, we’ve dived in Alaska, California, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and Thailand. But this was going to be […]
Camera Carelessness — Those Pesky Little Compartment Doors
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Some time back I was wandering through E-Bay thinking about replacing a Point & Shoot pocket camera stolen from me in a burglary. For one particular model I came across a bunch of listings for cameras with a notation that the camera works fine, but the hatch(door) for the battery compartment was broken off but […]
Wandering In The Mojave Desert = El Paso Mountain Trip
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In 1934, Walt Bickel wandered up Last Chance Canyon in the El Paso Mountains and found gold. It was placer flakes and dust and for Bickel, just a weekend hobby. A diversion from his workaday world in Los Angeles, 150 or so miles south. He joined the Army in 1942 and left the service in […]
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