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FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!

I saw Aretha do this song at the SB Bowl and nobody was sitting down!

I couldn't even imagine owning a slave...

"Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday."

Juneteenth is also called Freedom Day and Jubilee Day...I hope you white folks will stop being such a drag, and understand this, the true meaning....and everythang

Hurray for the Red, White and Blues!!

Requiem for a Heavyweight

"Santa Claus Lane is also home to a beautiful beach, restaurants, shops, and a number of private beach homes. It is isolated from the rest of Carpinteria by the estuary and is sort of in a world of its own."

when I moved to Carp I stayed on two ranches: Rancho Monte Alegre and The Young Ranch...stayed in Olive Carey's old pink bungaloo and played her piano at night...she'd host cocktail parties with the likes of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.. I spent two wonderful years there then went to the Young Ranch and met Playboy Centerfold Kym Herrin and Doobie bro Tom Johnston lived up there I'm told..John and June  Young owned the ranch, a Spanish Grant...

and June invented The Big Yellow House (I fondly remember the Cornbread Girls!) and Santa Claus Lane...I loved the rich history I was living but needed my own place so I bought a condo close to everything I love

so naturally I wanted to protect this place from development..I mean they were talking about filling in the marsh to build houses but the City Council at the time said NO WAY and the marsh remains, beautiful as ever

in 1998 an effort to SAVE SANTA and the Lane emerged and to a large extent, it remains a rural beach hangout with gorgeous views..a nod to simpler times...GOOD JOB!!

but development happened anyway and now they plan to turn Santa Claus Lane into a modern mecca of crosswalks, sidewalks and lights...given the Lane's popularity, some changes should be made, but the rendering I saw on Noozhawk is overkill with bells and whistles up the kazoo

oh, and the 8 million dollar DOG PATH that connects Santa Claus Lane to Carpinteria: WELCOME TO DOGPATCH

I guess it had to happen, these people who come here with no sense of history or place...all they wanna do is walk their dogs and smoke pot and pour more concrete...

bunch of loo-loos

thanks Das and Salud

Badge

I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park

I haven't heard from #69, Julia from Animal Rescue Team for awhile since she went all crazy...but now she's back in the news for kidnapping some non-native black swans (or is that swan-napping??)

the story was on Edhat and the Montecito Journal and the two warring animal rights groups are back at it like Israel and Palestine! 

Gretchen vs Julia

Julia has been known to rescue the hell outta animals whether they need it or not, and when she messes up, she blames the gov't...plus, she's pals with Wendy who started this influx of crazy animal-loving ladies...remember Davey the Dog who was abused and they rallied around the pup but when the Nature Con and NPS killed thousands of animals on the Channel Islands to protect the little retardo fox, the ladies were silent!! 

but the swans seemed happy swimming in the harbor and are definitely a tourist draw but in comes Julia to sweep them up and into some private residence where they will be kept as pets...that's the rumor anyway..clipped wings so they don't fly away???

clipping their wings is sadistic as these birds must fly

now over here in Carp we got two Canada geese visiting...they fly back and forth between the marsh and catch basin and always give a little 'honk'  that sounds more like 'squabble' but I love them!

so maybe Julia and Gretchen should stop squabbling and leave the animals alone because these two bitches got way too much time on their hands

Child of Nature

tell me, what else can a child of nature do?

today is Earth Day for all you hippies out there but be careful.. those who claim to love Mother Earth are killing her

beware of the restorations...killing what is feared and hated like weeds..I love weeds and so do bees and butterflies...pollinators!!  and how dare the Forest Service poison the back country to "control invasive species"  

no more Round Up, pard

and eucalyptus trees..how they've been demonized and destroyed when they provide habitat for Monarch butterflies and countless birds and bees! 

fossil fuels will run out one day so it's good to have some back up plans, meanwhile I'm driving

pro-growthers are sucking the life out of beautiful areas so it is worthwhile fighting them..we don't need bigger highways, we need less people

the Channel Islands Park Service and Nature Con have committed environmental atrocities to save an inbred fox..they should be in jail

I do what I can for Mother Earth and I know you will, too

well, you better

Sugar Mountain

oh, to live on Sugar Mountain with the barkers and the colored balloons

Welcome to the Full Sugar Moon! looking for worms at night is fun, too

poor Carpinteria, getting hit by the pot farms, development and Highway 101 expansion..people are selling due the cannabis odors...when I moved here in 1996, I loved the mix of houses and businesses, the ag and flowers everywhere, nice beaches and of course the Bluffs, the Salt Marsha and Santa Claus Lane.. and the folks were friendly

but you can't stay on Sugar Mountain forever...city councils change and attitudes change, but how often do girls change their panties?? I don't know

and the voters! how dumb can they be? pretty dumb and now poor Carpinteria is paying the price...housing prices are still good and if you bought when the buying was good, you'll make a nice profit

but some people want only money because they are greedy and greed is not good

the road to hell is paved with gold...

but the road to Sugar Mountain is paved with sweet dreams

Country Roads

Country Roads, take me home 

To the place I belong, 

West Virginia, Mountain Mamma, 

Take me home Country roads.

I like country roads too and some are fast disappearing with all the development going on...the goddamn pro-growthers want to keep building with no end in sight..

CALTRANS is busy destroying the old beautiful 101 highway that runs from Carp to Montecito, chopping down trees as quick as they can...MORE CONCRETE, LESS TREES! and those stupid sound walls!

but some developers have the right idea, like next to the San Marcos Hills Preserve...I say let them build their houses, they are donating open space which is very generous

besides, we all know that the open spaces and preserves have turned into nothing more than dog parks, where idiots walk their dogs and turn that beautiful open space into one big dog cesspool

clowns

Ruby Tuesday

good-bye Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?

when I went to Laguna Blanca school, I got sent home because my hair was too long, some kids got expelled for smoking pot, nowadays the kids are trying to kill each other! boy, times sure have changed but the school did have a great political science teacher, good English teachers but lousy French teachers..ce n'est pas bon!

back then I could listen to AM Radio, KIST and KACY, the Boss of the Beach and hear great music..but AM radio turned into talk radio and  mouthy idiots like Rush Limbaugh told conservatives what they wanted to hear...poor Rush, dead of cancer..overweight, drug addicted and those big cigars didn't do his lungs any good but at least he wasn't as crazy as Alex Jones, the conspiracy nut

and the Republicans are all crying crocodile tears

Traitor Trump gave him some big award...silly

the Concepcion diving boat tragedy hit everyone and the Captain runs the ship, but something isn't, well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'...I'd take another look at the cook

so the recall campaign against Gavin Newsom, our alleged Governor is heating up and I will vote him out...you can't order people to stay home, kill businesses and then go to dinner at the French Laundry and not wear a mask...you just can't..and he can't neither

French Laundry..what an odd name for a restaurant