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Livin' la vida 'rito!
Sun, 03 Sep 2006: My friends told me my life would be boring when I moved to the suburbs. Boy, were they wrong!

Every year around this time a colorful drama unfolds in the backyard as kamikaze woodrats try to eat all my grapes without getting picked off by the neighborhood hawk.
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Parking from the Lord
Sat, 02 Sep 2006: Well, my little sister was in town on Thursday night, so the Teenager says we should all go have dinner where he works in Berkeley on Rose and Martin Luther King.

I said, "Oh sure. I know right where that is."
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Mary Tyler Jeff
Sun, 27 Aug 2006: The longer I know Jeffrey, the more his life reminds me of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

Remember how she was always having those parties of hers, and something would always go wrong at the last minute?
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Pigeons of shame!
Sun, 20 Aug 2006: For the last fifteen years or so of her life, my Grandma Mary lived in a small studio apartment on Laurel Street in San Carlos.

Now Grandma was pretty good about keeping herself occupied. She'd take the casino bus to Reno every now and then. And she was always reading and doing crossword puzzles.
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El Cerrito means excitement!
Sat, 19 Aug 2006: Why is it when people from your office go to Hawaii, they always come back with those boxes of chocolate covered macadamia nuts? You know the ones I mean?

The ones you can buy at any Walgreen's in the world two for $4.95?
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my grapes

the garden

Lavatera and grapes

Colorado quarter

flush with cash

stock market

busted!

Jeffrey

Teenager's name tag

Teenager at work