Phil Swanson has an great memory. I have not thought about our backyard movies for many years.
Randy Glover and I built a movie screen with "two by fours", plywood and a white canvas. We borrowed chairs from friends and neighbors. A sound cord ran from the "projection booth"--in my room at our home at 785 Del Mar--to the top of the screen
We rented movies from a store on third avenue--kind of a precursor to Block Buster. I think it may have been Chula Vista Photo.
We put up a sign in our front yard and made flyers which we handed out to neighbors.
Backyard theaters are still popular and even a business these days. See YouTube below.
Concerning Shayne's question on the Global Globe award show: I am not that knowledgeable about celebrities. I leave that to my wife and daughter. Pam was pleased that an actor from Downtown Abbey won.
Shayne: M's surgery is Thursday. I do not know about TBT. It has yet to appear in any of the places I regularly hang out, but if it's good then it must be.
We've been building up her muscles by hiking in the East County and that's how we became Semi-Official. Didn't see a badger, but did find a burrow and a coyote. No mountain lions, though M swears they are out there. We did see some mighty fresh (and big) cat tracks over at Mr. Laguna. M now carries a can of bear spray, but I fend them off via brujería.
It’s estimated roughly 100 trillion microorganisms reside within our intestines, about 10 times more than the total number of human cells comprising our bodies.
So the buzz in SD is how UCSD has just landed the premier microbiome researcher, Rob Knight (not Bob Knight the chair chucker). He comes from Boulder CO. to UCSD because:
"... UC San Diego really has a unique combination of high-perfomance computing, immunology, excellent clinical researchers and biobanks, natural products chemistry, metabolomics, and, recently, a gnotobiotic mouse facility (which allows tests of hypotheses about which microbes are important).
TBT (Throw Back Thursday) ie: old photos A compliment if that is current.
Is it miniscus? Arthroscopic? Sending good wishes for a good result. They are done here often and are quite successful. Rehab is cycling.
We have bears here (no badgers) all summer and "clumsy as a bear" does not apply
They are agile, especially for their weight and sleep in trees in town during the day. Watched cubs run around high branches like little monkeys. Yogi was everywhere when I used to go to Yellowstone for the summer with Brother and friends. Grizzly watching was nighttime entertainment.
I met a cougar (no not that kind) a moutain lion while hiking alone in Two Bunch Palms. One was in my backyard when I first moved to the house I am in now. They are magnificent.
Joe Weiss M.D. from UCSD spoke at the center near San Diego I was at in December. He said more messages went from the gut to the brain than vice versa, and the science of probiotics was a new frontier. It would become more specific in the future for treating disease. Glad my Alma Mater snagged Rob Knight from CU.
That was Michele's January, 2015 photo, so she says thanks for the compliment. Surgery tomorrow A.M. Artheroscopic meniscus and possible posterior root ligament repair. We stay away from cycling ever since Lance admitted to being dirty. She'll have to just "walk it off".
Should be some badgers there in Aspen, they are in Telluride. Don't feed bears like that poor lady in Ourey did.
My Alma was Alma Silveyra until I found out she was only thirteen. Funny thing is Jan ended up marrying her.
I guess we're all gonna have to go from am to pro-biotics. Larry Smarr, another fellow out at UCSD is on the leading edge of where medicine is headed (he's not a doctor, but a computer dude and a very nice guy - I've corresponded with him). I'll find a good link for Dr. Smarr's medically-oriented work and send it to you.
Some day, we'll have to get back together and compare bear (three for me, Tuolumne and Crane Flats, Yosemite) and mountain lion (Michele sees them regularly) stories.
Surgery went well. Surgery, no matter how modern, is still dangerous since you're knocked out and it's still painful (very). May post the video. Technology is amazing.
Michele says thanks and sends this along since there has been some talk of water and bears.
We were up in Cuyamaca last week. Green Valley Falls campground is closed (don't know for how long) and the school camp is totally unrecognizable. So poking around on the internet I found this 1958 vintage 8 MM film of GVF.
Pretty cool. I have a family picnic photo right at the stone cook stove (:48) taken in 1957.
Glad the surgery was uneventful and successful. Yes, anesthesia is dicey.
I went to Camp Marston near Julian nearly every summer with Rosie. And there were many family adventures to Cuyamaca. ("Behind the Clouds" ) Is it closed because of the drought and fire potential?
The mountain camps operated by the State generally close late in October and reopen mid-May. Camping season was much longer before budget cuts. My favorites are in the Lagunas and if it weren't for volunteers, they'd be in terrible shape. Campfires are banned during fire season. We spend hiking time clearing brush and fallen branches. Aren't we fortunate to live so close to these little spots of Paradise?
That's mountain lion country right there (so says Michele). One time we did a 22 miler road trip from Pine Valley to Mt. Laguna. As usual we got a late start and did the majority of the downhill in the dark. Michele still swears she saw and heard a lion stalking us. Another trip we did the Noble Canyon hike and ended up coming down in the dark again. This time we actually did see some very fresh and wet paw prints where a good sized cougar exited a stream. Hence, Michele and her bear spray.
I still swear by Brujeria (it's worked so far, no?).
BTW, I finally read your profile (it's hard keeping up). What type of engineering did you do? Mr. Reeves was my next door neighbor. Very nice man, but kind of shy. His son Brian, not so shy. I have been unable to actually contact Brian, but I believe he's up around Sacramento along with Mary Cotton.
Here's a link to one of Larry Smarr's papers. It's a good introduction to his take on where medicine is or should be heading, but there has been further work.
Read Dr. Smarr's article and agree, all disease starts in the colon. Food can be preventative medicine. Red Yeast Rice extract can lower LDL and isn't as disruptive as statins. But COQ10 with statins is a must, since statins lower bad cholesterol but also deplete the heart muscle of an important enzyme replaced by COQ10.
Hippocrates Institute there in San Diego is a good jumpstart on colon health.I went there 30 years ago and think it's still there..
Speaking of cholesterol, Michele's HDL jumped from an already high score of 90 to an almost unheard of 132. The only thing that we can see that she changed was almost daily turmeric and ginger consumption. The cardiologist that I used to talk to informally at the YMCA (10 years? ago) said that high HDL is almost like an innoculation against heart disease.
One rather old study I found used curcumin (the important active component of turmeric) and found dramatic changes on the order of M's in as little as seven days.
There are quite a few alleged benefits to turmeric. We're compiling a list and looking for research that supports them.
Wow! 132! I am making curry today. Tumeric and cinnamon are natural anti=inflammatories Life Extension has supporting articles..Her CRP must be low too. How is re-hab going for her?
When I converted to turmericism (is that a word?), I added cinammon to my turmeric/ginger combo. I tried it in salsa, good, but I don't want to eat salsa everyday, so I wound up mixing it into [low sodium] V-8 juice (better).
Funny thing about rehab, ever since M got into it, she's been taking more drugs. Her knee must really hurt alot because she has a high pain threshold. She starts physical therapy tomorrow. Thanks for checking up.
To cheer her up, I suggested that she dress up as Elvira (no-brainer!) and I Davy Crockett, then we'd go out and get our trick or treat on in the neighborhood.
Buenas tardes, amigos.
Give us some sugar or we'll turn you into a hipopótamo
Dark chocolate covered almonds are what we prefer.
Random Notes
Richard showed up at Irvine for a reading when I was there.
Did Michele just have meniscus or were there ligaments repaired too? Wishing her a smooth road to recovery and lots of chocolate almond bark. Chocolate has lots of anti-oxidants.
Reading "Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen" a compilation of interviews from the 60's to present. He has a unique perspective and an eloquent, articulate way of expressing it.He opened for Karen"s boyfriends band The Brain Police in San Diego. They opened for Cream at the Colliseum.(whatever brand name it"s called now)
Turmeric 1/2 tps: Antioxidant and anti-inflamatory
Cinnamon 1/2 tps: Controls blood sugar
Sprinkle of pepper: Helps activate the Tumeric
Apple Cyder Vinegar 1 tbsp: Also helps control blood sugar
Pour in a small amount of a fruit drink (She makes a fruit drink of blueberries, banana, soy milk, wheat germ and ground flaxseed)
YUCK the Tumeric drink tastes terrible. I leave out the vinegar and it helps. I think I will try the V-8 mentioned by Bruce.
Here is an Indian Spice Mix:
Anyhow, I still think a balanced diet like we learned in Junior High health class and moderate exercise is the best thing for general health. And best not to sit around and lot and eat snacks.
Well DC: Maybe we ought to approach McDonald's with "our" patented Turmeric McMuffins, eh?
SMSMS: Leonard Cohen himself lived up on Mt. Baldy (a few stone throws away from my house in La Crescenta). Not that I would ever throw stones in his direction, being the first songwriter who wasn't Bob Dylan in the 1960's that I really liked.
Back a ways:
"They have been very kind to me here," Cohen says matter-of-factly about his change of lifestyle as he sits on a narrow cot that would look at home in an Army barracks. "This was originally two cabins, but they broke through [the wall] and made it one cabin to give me a bit more room.
"I stay here and do my work and help look after Roshi, who is the old teacher. He's 88, and three or four of us are charged with doing that. Cooking is my contribution."
Way back a ways:
Dress Rehearsal Rag:
There's no hot water
and the cold is running thin.
Well, what do you expect from
the kind of places you've been living in?
Don't drink from that cup,
it's all caked and cracked along the rim.
That's not the electric light, my friend,
that is your vision growing dim.
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