Thursday, July 4, 2013

Independence Day

Today was my 56th birthday! Happy birthday to me! John gave me a lovely pair of cycling gloves because I had mentioned how freezing my fingers had been last winter. I won’t have a chance to use them for a while, but what a sweet thought!

Speaking of sweet thoughts, we mentioned in passing that we might go to the “B-E-A-C-H” today and Eli seemed to think the thought was positively edible.

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Of course, to be fair, Eli think that just about everything is edible. We need not go into details here….

We drove down to some place that was maybe in Moro Bay or maybe in Cayucos. At any rate, it was a lovely flat beach filled with happy dogs. Here’s Kathi with her adorable Brooklyn and Barkley.

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Rick is such a good dog daddy, and he loves to play with Barkley.

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Speaking of Rick, in addition to be one of the finest appellate lawyers in the State of California, he is also a superb nature photographer with a particular interest in birds. I love birds; I’m a member of LA Audubon. But I can never remember the names of any of them. Not only can Rick do that, he snaps pretty impressive pictures of them, don’t you think?

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Many of Rick’s other fantastic pictures can be seen at his Flickr site. Check it out!

Alas, this is the end of our trip. Tomorrow it’s back home to Los Angeles.