little house, little a*s, blablabla

this mini triceratops, near the house, was 3 in. long
(of course, itś an endangered horny toad, in reality)

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fat dog child, well loved

why can't i get anyone in the family to help buy this with me?? it would be a very cool project. younger family members might be able to live here in the future when they have the dough! this is a low-crime area near the freeway/kern river in bakersfield. not a fancy neighborhood, by any means, but not dangerous. that is of primo importance.
i could buy it by myself, but why? it should be a family thing. plus james & i are obsessing right now over buying a train caboose. and i am obsessing about fixing up our lil loafer trailer for mom & dad to glamp in. :) so the next preoccupation should sweep this one away quite soon.
oh well; maybe you'll read this & go buy it. what an investment opportunity! and think of all the neat "restoration hardware"  building material garbage that would be available for salvage & to make cool junk art & other creative things!

penny wore her rexspecs & after we had coffee chocolate slushies

this was the nicest, most fun hike i've ever had up mt pinos!
what a happy time for us both in our beautiful mountains.

nothing new here except my injured arm is a fractured humerus/ripped rc & bicep. after i hung up with the doc & told james, he was hooting, "my tough little cookie! my little stud!" proud of me for putting up w/pain since mid or late may when in fact i was just being a stubbornheaded ass about getting an mri sooner... my name is jenny, after all.  https://www.facebook.com/mammothdonkeys/photos/lucille-is-a-mammoth-donkey-jenny-stands-15-hands-3-lucille-is-not-for-sale-her-/283450832448688

"g*d helps three kinds of people: fools, lovers, & drunkards."

ohhhh my feet...

james looks so handsome here. my eyes are slits.

a quick search revealed there are variations on the above, so i just chose this one. no, it's not in the bible; that part's clear.
in 1995 i'd just gotten sober & missed the international drunk convention by 2 weeks. in 2000 & 2005, i got to attend wonderful events in minneapolis & toronto w/my 1st husband. in 2010, i went to san antonio w/a person whose function in my life was as placeholder for james. in 2015, i was too broke to go. in 2020, we were all signed up for detroit, but it was cancelled by covid.
i wanted to do something special to mark my july 4th 25th sobriety "birthday," so i went on a 25 kilometer trudge from our house out lockwood valley road & back. our road out to lake of the woods, where you turn onto LV, has a beautiful foot path w/forested village all around! i felt like i was walking in germany, like that one time w/james!  LV road isn't nearly as desolate as i thought & has a friendly lively serenity that made the trip so memorable. on LV road, i kept thinking i was in texas or in south dakota, not mere miles from our house.

ventura county line

did the last 3.1 miles (5k) w/penny dog, who wore her rexspecs obediently. the last miles were a slog; my body was doing fine til i got to my feet: those dogs were dead!! after slathering them w/tiger balm & napping, i went w/james to "the wolf meeting" near lake hughes where they have a wolf rescue place. they didn't have a 25 year chip, which i didn't think they would, so james presented me w/a paper bowl, flipped & topped w/candles, as everyone sang. i thought i'd found a sponsor, but the woman i asked is moving to colorado! damn. still, it was quite a lovely sobriety birthday, much better than most any in memory. :)
anyways, i'll keep looking for a sponsor, & here are some pix.

at this pt the road dropped off steadily, heading for ojai

ahh, heading back toward home now

not much further!

finished!

indy pendants daze

tomorrow is 25 yrs' sobriety for me.
i am going to do a trek.
thatś all iḿ saying for now soś i don´t blow it.
ps, hereś another pic of james & me for his fans (obviously bc look @ my hair don´t - yet another fascin pho paw. *sigh*)