The getaway with Molly was so lovely that I wanted to schedule an adventure with Eleni as well—long overdue. Yesterday she and I put our heads together (remotely) and scoured maps and AirBnB listings for possibilities. We determined that the Clear Lake area, a little over two hours from each of us, would be our destination, and found a two-bedroom place on the water. Unfortunately, the host reports that because of the drought, the shoreline […]
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My little productions
Mountain Drama
Wednesday, June 30 11:30 a.m. I woke up on and off all night, rather uncomfortable, but didn’t emerge from my cocoon until close to 6:00 this morning. In the two years since I last camped, it’s gotten much more painful to rise from the mat, whatwith my twisty old spine. By 8:00 I was on the road, searching for the trailhead for the Curtz Lake to Summit Lake hike, a 1.8-mile loop. I’m out of […]
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 4:00 p.m. Checking my supplies one final time this morning, I determined that I had packed everything I could possibly need. Just for fun, I checked the forecast for the eastern Sierra again, knowing what it would say: hot. So I was quite surprised to see the prediction of a chance of afternoon thunderstorms for both days. I didn’t take it too seriously, its being the dry season and a drought […]
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Recently Molly digitized a lengthy VHS tape that features a series of three Kennelly School of Irish Dance performances at a St. Paddy’s day festival in Calaveras, CA, in 2000. I’m not sure who was behind the lens. It could have been Lila’s husband, Brad, or Shirley’s husband, Scott. I edited it down to a six-minute and two-second excerpt of the first of the day’s shows. Not long after her stellar performances, poor little Molly […]
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