more downtown development

We set off for downtown, to an area I once new well, to meet up with our birthday boy Wilson, for a celebratory breakfast. I used to live on 3rd Street years ago, and once again, I got lost trying to find 4th.  Where Wayne Hibb's, Farm & Garden Nursery once stood, there is now a concrete monolith.  For me - Appearance of a possible new jail?

So I asked our server, Brie, if she had any insight. And, she mentioned only that she believed - soon it would be a cluster of new residential "condos".


Corner of 4th & Lemon

Brie (with her remarkable eyes and knowledgeable insight)

ridin' away from home with blue skies & clean socks

Breakfast in Arcadia

Christmas in June

And then it rained, for most of the latter afternoon.

Came home completely soaked - with wet drenched boots. And barely able to peel off those wet, dirty and filthy looking, badly leather-stained, new white socks.

back at it ......

Now three weeks into painting the interior - tripping over drop clothes, cans of paint, and still dangling off of ladders.  4 months total - exterior and interior.  Brings back old memories.

Woke up this morning to my pile of materials in the living room. Then off early - having to take my wife to another doctor's appointment.  And there, another hard-working painter - prepping to paint.

Sandy's Birthday

Hard to believe she's just 28 (sixty-nine).

scrapping, patching & sanding

the interior bathrooms - peeling walls and ceilings, prepping for to paint - on a dark & stormy, rainy day.