Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Appliance Porn
My mother and I are sending each other appliance porn.*
I started out with this from Surfa's Restaurant Supply:
She countered with this:
I am an amateur. I know when I've been schooled.
*Funny thing: when I googled "appliance porn" the second result listed was this blog with the VERY SAME model of fridge my mom sent me. Clearly, when we are talking appliance porn, we are talking Sub-Zero PRO 48.
Getting back down to earth, I will counter with this:
Not as hard core, but more along the lines of what our budget is (for now.)
I started out with this from Surfa's Restaurant Supply:
She countered with this:
I am an amateur. I know when I've been schooled.
*Funny thing: when I googled "appliance porn" the second result listed was this blog with the VERY SAME model of fridge my mom sent me. Clearly, when we are talking appliance porn, we are talking Sub-Zero PRO 48.
Getting back down to earth, I will counter with this:
Not as hard core, but more along the lines of what our budget is (for now.)
Labels: appliances, mom
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Start Your Morning With A (Potential) Bang!
I headed out for my morning constitutional, exiting through the backyard gate, as per usual, and this is what greets me when I step out:
WTF? I look over toward the intersection in front of our house and it is full of cops. Being the safe and sane citizen that I am, (and my mother's daughter) I go running back inside to get my camera and race back out take photos of the flares and then head over to see what's up. There were no guns drawn and none of the cops seemed to be moving very quickly, so I figured they weren't going to tell me to get back into the house (like when my mom was visiting*). My neighbors were out so I walked over to them first and they told me it was a suspicious package and sure enough, here comes the bomb squad:
But they were all done, no problem, move along, nothing to see here. Apparently there was a suitcase near the 10 fwy overpass down the street from us. I appreciate that someone is paying attention, but I see so much crap piled up there from time to time I don't pay any attention. I'm not sure what that makes me, lazy? Not a True American? Whatever. I proceeded with my morning walk.
And by the way, have you noticed that it is really summer time now? Hardly any June gloom at our house (4 blocks east of the 405) and it is staying warm at night. Time for the summer bed linens!
*Oh, and about my Mother. She's always up for an adventure. When there were HUGE storms on Maui and all the power would be knocked out for days and the roads flooded, school cancelled, etc (awesome good times!) we would listen to the battery powered radio and of course the officials would say what roads were closed or flooded and to please stay home unless it was absolutely necessary. That was my mom's cue: "Let's go look!" And we'd jump in the car and drive into town to see what was up. So much fun. Recently, she and my stepdad were here visiting and while we were eating take out in the living room, 3 or 4 police cars go flying past on our smaller side street (we live on a corner), lights ablaze. Mom looks at me and barely has "Let's go see!" before we are running out the door and get about 20 steps to the sidewalk in front of our house and look down the small street and there are TONS OF COPS in full gear, shotguns out saying "GO BACK INSIDE!" So we did. We then lay on the floor to better dodge bullets and laughed nervously. Okay, we didn't lie on the floor, but we did laugh. Good times.
WTF? I look over toward the intersection in front of our house and it is full of cops. Being the safe and sane citizen that I am, (and my mother's daughter) I go running back inside to get my camera and race back out take photos of the flares and then head over to see what's up. There were no guns drawn and none of the cops seemed to be moving very quickly, so I figured they weren't going to tell me to get back into the house (like when my mom was visiting*). My neighbors were out so I walked over to them first and they told me it was a suspicious package and sure enough, here comes the bomb squad:
But they were all done, no problem, move along, nothing to see here. Apparently there was a suitcase near the 10 fwy overpass down the street from us. I appreciate that someone is paying attention, but I see so much crap piled up there from time to time I don't pay any attention. I'm not sure what that makes me, lazy? Not a True American? Whatever. I proceeded with my morning walk.
And by the way, have you noticed that it is really summer time now? Hardly any June gloom at our house (4 blocks east of the 405) and it is staying warm at night. Time for the summer bed linens!
*Oh, and about my Mother. She's always up for an adventure. When there were HUGE storms on Maui and all the power would be knocked out for days and the roads flooded, school cancelled, etc (awesome good times!) we would listen to the battery powered radio and of course the officials would say what roads were closed or flooded and to please stay home unless it was absolutely necessary. That was my mom's cue: "Let's go look!" And we'd jump in the car and drive into town to see what was up. So much fun. Recently, she and my stepdad were here visiting and while we were eating take out in the living room, 3 or 4 police cars go flying past on our smaller side street (we live on a corner), lights ablaze. Mom looks at me and barely has "Let's go see!" before we are running out the door and get about 20 steps to the sidewalk in front of our house and look down the small street and there are TONS OF COPS in full gear, shotguns out saying "GO BACK INSIDE!" So we did. We then lay on the floor to better dodge bullets and laughed nervously. Okay, we didn't lie on the floor, but we did laugh. Good times.
Labels: los angeles, mom
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Maui Interlude
After two weeks of work with the Macedonians in Los Angeles (you may be asking "where the hell is Macedonia?"), I scurried off to Maui to visit my mom for mother's day. I had not been to Maui alone in at least six years and it was a little odd at first, feeling like I was 22 again, sliding right into some good old patterns. Things like waking up at 6am and walking on the beach with my mom. Writing in my journal at the breakfast table while watching the morning parade of neighbors and their dogs on their way to the beach. Nice. Soothing.
I flew in Sunday (mother's day) and took some shots as we were preparing to land. (Click all to make them bigger.)
Here is north shore Maui and a pineapple field. Pineapples do not grow on trees.
Haleakala Highway and the surrounding sugar cane fields:
Maui has a windfarm now (click for bigger picture):
West Maui Mountains:
Kahului Town:
What salt air does to most vehicles:
I flew in Sunday (mother's day) and took some shots as we were preparing to land. (Click all to make them bigger.)
Here is north shore Maui and a pineapple field. Pineapples do not grow on trees.
Haleakala Highway and the surrounding sugar cane fields:
Maui has a windfarm now (click for bigger picture):
West Maui Mountains:
Kahului Town:
What salt air does to most vehicles:
Labels: beach, macedonia, maui, mom
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
More Scanner Art
Mom did another flower/scanner/photo. I hope she creates a series.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
A Scanner Brightly
So I'm reading one of my fave websites today: Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (and it truly is), and found this gorgeous image:
The artist is Katinka Matson and she uses a high resolution scanner to create the image.
Knowing my mother would love this a) beccause it's so beautiful and b) because she's a great artist and photographer, I sent her the link, fully expecting to have a version she would have done in my inbox within mere minutes. Well, she wasn't home, so it took an hour or so, but here it came:
I think it is quite lovely.
I plan on doing a few myself tomorrow and over the weekend.
The artist is Katinka Matson and she uses a high resolution scanner to create the image.
Knowing my mother would love this a) beccause it's so beautiful and b) because she's a great artist and photographer, I sent her the link, fully expecting to have a version she would have done in my inbox within mere minutes. Well, she wasn't home, so it took an hour or so, but here it came:
I think it is quite lovely.
I plan on doing a few myself tomorrow and over the weekend.
Labels: art, boing boing, flowers, mom
