But I would prefer they take care of this at home.
NYC Salvation Taco (Sep 2015)
I swear I painted this as a kid:
NYC (Aug 2015)
This very same paint-by-numbers. I wonder if my copy some how ended up on a NYC bathroom wall or if someone else painted one too.
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do in response to this sign.
Calistoga, CA (Aug 2015)
Aboard the Rocky Mountaineer
Last month we took the two day journey aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train from Banff to Vancouver, Canada. It was a beautiful trip. This is a few seconds of it:
(Video by me, music by Eric Clapton)
El Niño - come soon. PLEASE.
With temps over 100 and suffering through another year of drought, the Napa Valley is screaming out in pain. Trees are stressed. Ground plants are stressed. Vines are stressed. And vintners are stressed. (I spent over $4000 during July just buying water for my vineyard!)
We can keep buying water to get us through harvest, but all of the glorious California oaks on our Baconbrook property are looking very sad. And sad trees are susceptible to disease and pest. Dry grass and ground plants look like matches ready to strike.
"They" say that there is a 50-50 chance Northern California will get a huge rainfall this year. We need it. There will be challenges with mudslides and flooding, but those are problems we need to live through right now. We need the rain. But even more importantly, we need snow. Five of the lowest snowpacks on record in the Sierra have taken place over the last ten years. Snow pack is our water storage system.
So come on, El Niño. Bring it on. While we all enjoy the glorious Golden State sunshine, we're ready for some gloomy rainy days. A bunch of them.
Book of Questions 9: Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave the country...
“Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave the country and never set foot in it again?”
$1,000,000 isn't enough to buy me off to leave the country. But one could perhaps talk me in to doing it for free if I knew that I would be financially stable.
Make sense?
I wouldn't go against my wishes for a mil but immigrating from the USA doesn't scare me either.
Book of Questions 8: Would you rather be a member of a world championship...
“Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?”
Roger Federer, BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, CA (March 2014)
Singles tennis champion... preferably the greatest of all time.
Book of Questions 7: Do you think that the world will be a better or...
“Do you think that the world will be a better or a worse place 100 years from now?”
Worse. Much worse.
Book of Questions #1
“For a person you loved deeply, would you be willingto move to a distant country knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends or family again?”
Absolutely.
Wow, that looks like a nasty compound fracture sir. May I see your lift ticket please?
Hypocritic Oath:
Summit Ski Area, Mt. Hood (July 2015)