I've started golfing again and really enjoying it. I bought some new clubs and wow this new technology is great. Oversize heads, graphite shafts...how can you miss!



My new great big driver

Yesterday I found this really cool steamer trunk at the exchange table of the Oak Bay dump. I painted the outside black and my special living room red. Amazingly there were two stickers from the White Star Line First Class which I left on and which the red background on the sticker is identical to my red! Then I turned my attention to the inside (very smelly) and ripped out all the cloth and put on my never fail stain blocker primer. Underneath the cloth and cardboard the maker of the trunk had placed comic strips of "Barney Google" by Billy DeBeck from the Philidelphia Inquirer dated 1942. Looking DeBeck up on the Internet I found out he died in 1942. Guess this trunk maker wanted to make a little memorial to him and perhaps hoping someone would find this one day. The comic strip on the lid wasn't in good shape but the one on the bottom was so I've left it there. I'm going to paint an ocean liner on the front using the one I did last year as a model.


Trunk with the outside coat of paint


comic strip

My son www.whypop.net/rich/ refers to an interesting article about how cellphones that take pictures will change a lot. The ability to take pictures and post them to websites so easily does also bring up privacy issues and problems with people becoming unwitting celebrities. I don't think the dogs I took a picture of and posted to my site will mind but perhaps their owner would. Certainly, one needs to be careful about posting pictures of people even in what I feel is a space fairly limited in exposure like this weblog. So today I will stick to plants. These are some pix of "volunteer" poppies in my garden. I just love how they find these spots and proliferate.

Our 35th anniversary today!

The great thing about having this very small digital camera...size and weight similar to a matchbox....is that I always have it on my keychain and can get those pix I wouldn't normally get. I was downtown the other day with friends and we saw these two dogs in the sidecar of a motorcyle. It was fun to be able to get a pix of this.



Dogs on Douglas Street

My son sent me these absolutely beautiful orchids...wow...thanks, Richard!