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Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! It’s a desert kind of day, sunshine all around, chilly but OK, the only snow is up in the mountains.  Feast and feeding going on next door at my sis’s in mid afternoon; along with the wish that everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

We took a hike

and found a safe in the desert.  It’s a floor model, almost as tall as me, with a combination lock, a Meilink, with the door ripped right off, laying about 10 feet from the safe.  A compartment that fit inside the safe with individual cubicles (one that could be locked) was still in the safe.  It was new decor for the normal garbage that is mostly dumped out on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) property where we walk. Continue reading We took a hike

Barry Tanenbaum has left the game

Unfortunately for us Barry Tanenbaum won’t be back to grace a poker table with his always cheerful demeanor and clean, whole attitude about the game of poker.  His last post on his website was in July 2009. Linda Johnson’s tribute to Barry is only a small picture of how much he meant to the poker world. The statement ‘the poker world’ may seem trivial to some but that is how we experience people when we are ‘in the game’ and those memories stick forever.

I knew Barry from dealing to both him and his wife, but not personally away from the table.  All I can say is we need more players like him.  RIP Barry.

China Ranch Date Farm and Tecopa

We were up and out of the house at 9 a.m. and on our way – we were in California within a few minutes (Yah, I live that close) and out over the scab lands and terrain that leads to Death Valley if we turned right and Tecopa if we turned left.  When we hit the festival about 5 vendors in a parking lot of a hot springs resort that is quiet and unsophisticated was all there was to the whole production.  There’s an office/art gallery of sorts and a ‘Bistro’ behind it in the parking lot too. Continue reading China Ranch Date Farm and Tecopa