Summer Side of Life

There were young girls everywhere

On the summer side of life

“Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail."

BREAKING NEWS: STONERS DYING OUT!

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) announced on Thursday plans to close the cannabis retail location in Grover Beach, California, as part of its initiative to preserve cash and improve financial performance. (STAY TUNED)

Grover Beach cannabis shop closes, industry in crisis (calcoastnews.com)

for the unofficial start to Summer, how about a nice big swarm of bees (I think) by the marsh in the euc trees! locusts?? June Bugs?? hmmmm

It is hard to photograph peregrine falcons because they are fast and flighty...sometimes they hover, sometimes they glide, but when they dive-bomb, they disappear...poof, gone!! that's 200 mph...that's fast

but one is in the neighborhood and when he took off toward the hills, I just pointed and clicked and just got him...

there's plenty of pigeons, doves and ducks around here...personally, I'd go for the duck l'orange with mashed potatoes infused with peppercorns and sage..

and a carafe of a nice red blend

One Toke Over the Line

Sweet Jesus...

I loved the weeds on the Carp Ave Exit but CALTRANS came by and cut them all down...this is all part of the 8-million-dollar sidewalk scheme from Santa Claus Lane to Carp Ave...I'm watching this project like a hawk!

I watched the subcontractors for nearly a month try to drill holes in the new safety guard rail but maybe they forgot it's made of tons of concrete and purple rebar..tough on drill bits!

Today, they are laying an elaborate web of PVC irrigation lines to water the incoming native plants...this will be a high-maintenance garden that will ensure job security for the landscapers. But all CALTRANS needs to do is replant the ice plant that was there before...no separate irrigation system required, and ice plant is low-maintenance, flowers in spring and is good for bees and butterflies...the excuse they will use is ice plant is invasive/non-native but that is bullshit!!

and I've seen more than a few workers toking on something...cannabis or vaping...now that's real professional

I can't believe my tax money is going into this scam!! 

CALTRANS has too much power and the people need to cut them down to size

NO MORE SPECIAL BIKE LANES!!! 

and NO MORE DEVELOPMENT BY THE MARSH!!!

UPDATE: CALTRANS BANS CALIFORNIA POPPIES!

I was enjoying a little poppy bloom by the side of the road when CALTRANS sends a Sierra Landscape moron over to cut them down with a weed whacker...when I asked CALTRANs why they did that, a guy named Toby claimed they need the area cleared for upcoming planting...I hardly think a few poppies will offer much resistance when and if CALTRANS plants here..

this will not abide!!!

Love Is Just a Four- Letter Word

Though I tried and failed at finding any door

I must have thought that there was nothing more absurd

Than that love is just a four-letter word

Dennis Quaid wants to move the Hollywood film industry to Texas...he says he can't remember the last time he made a film in California... well, neither can I, Dennis, neither can I

but Yellowstone star Kevin Costner lives just down the road on Padaro Lane and so do Ellen and Portia and a bunch of other celebs...we live by the highway because we are restless...you never know when we're gonna jump in the Land Rovers and hit the road...we are highway people and we'll be alright...

but anyway, there was a commotion at Kevin's a little while ago:

"Just days after Kevin Costner was "blindsided" with divorce papers, someone inside the actor's California home called 911 to report a trespasser, who was refusing to leave, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

Three squad cars responded to the home located in the swanky enclave of Carpinteria at about 10 PM on May 6, according to the 911 dispatch logs obtained by RadarOnline.com from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.

The dispatch records listed the problem as “Trespass/Refusing to Leave." The disposition of the police run is unknown and coded with the term: “PR Contact 083” — a possible reference to the Sheriff’s public relations department.

Raquel Zick, the Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, did not respond to RadarOnline.com's email inquiry seeking to find if the 911 call was in any way related to the explosive divorce between the Yellowstone stud and Christina Baumgartner,the mother of his three children.

Baumgartner, 49, slammed Costner with the divorce papers on May 2, just 21 days after she officially separated from her husband of 18 years, bombshell court documents showed.

UPDATE: Oscar winner's divorce happened after wife 'got close' with houseguest (msn.com)

The 911 call comes as RadarOnline.com reported the Field of Dreams actor is gearing up for a bare-knuckle brawl with Baumgartner, who he believes plans to fight the prenuptial agreement they have in place and possibly try and wrestle for a large chunk of his $250 million fortune."

Carpinteria a swanky enclave?? maybe before CALTRANS and cannibas turned us into a third-world shithole...

I don' know, but Kevin, I thought "The Postman" was a great movie!

Casablanca

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"

It's Spring and a time for fresh new starts and that goes for the News-Press, too. I guess Wendy grew tired of State St with all the people eating in the street, rats everywhere..it was looking like a scene straight outta David Copperfield! 

I heard rumors about the News-Press building being haunted with empty barrels of ink and crumpled margarita recipes...

Wendy, were you aware of your pal Rob Lowe marching on the picket line to support Hollywood writers and the union?? I'm shocked...shocked!!

I've written much about Wendy of course after she bought the newspaper and started lying about public employee and most gov't functions. When we needed a real gov't watchdog, we got a crazy lady who tried to ruin the SB cops careers when they kept busting her drunk driver friends...the cops, two excellent police officers, are doing well and thriving but I can't say the same for our Wendy...or ex-City Councilman Frank Hotchkiss who is now a UBER driver in Georgia?? Round up the usual suspects!

and when she started her anti-rodeo nonsense during Fiesta, I figured she didn't have any horse sense..I like rodeos because I'm a cosmic cowboy, obviously...and I wonder how Wendy feels about 7 dead horses at the Kentucky Derby this year...no doubt drug induced

there's not much room for the News-Press these days, or conservatives...they cancel, ban and want you to live the life they have designed for you but that ain't gonna fly, not in America..

Wendy, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

"Here's looking at you, kid."