It’s March in San Diego and we are solidly into Spring now. There are blooms everywhere and the hummingbirds are having a wonderful time. You’ll also want to watch this fantastic slow motion film of hummingbirds in flight!Continue Reading
Fur was our first choice for cold weather clothing. It remains so today. But every garment on the catwalk started out as pelts — so let’s go to auction and examine the pelts offered for sale. And if you like this tour, made during the 2010 auction season, here’s anotherContinue Reading
Why I don’t think I want the government anywhere near my family’s health care.Continue Reading
Thank you, Al Gore. It’s ironic that, in Gore’s world, burning fossil fuels causes hotter summers and colder winters. After all, fossil fuels are the source for the real fur industry’s greatest competition: synthetic clothing products. Just a few decades ago, DuPont said we’d have “better living through chemistry” andContinue Reading
Use frozen puff pastry to make this so easy tart from Ina Garten’s recipe. It’s a stress-free recipe for company. Variations include canned pears or peach halves sliced and laid out just like the apples in this slideshow. Ripe figs, fresh off the tree, make a nice tart too. AlsoContinue Reading
Facebook’s Stop the Humane Society of the United States (H$U$) group just passed the 18,000 members mark! It’s growth is really phenomenal. This group had 9,242 members on July 24, 2009. By December 4 it had grown to 11,896 and by December 23, 2009 membership was at 12,799! On JanuaryContinue Reading
Australian yellow tail wines took a licking this week when animal rights/vegan Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced yellow tail was contributing $100,000 to HSUS! Amazing. Doesn’t yellow tail know HSUS works against hunting kangaroos and fishing and hunting in Australia and everywhere? Don’t they know HSUS constantlyContinue Reading
It’s an el nino period in San Diego, when we get enough rain to fill all the wells, reservoirs and pile up the snow pack — enough water to last us for another 7 years or so — if we’re careful. Here are some pictures taken between storms.Continue Reading
How did Scott Brown, the underdog Republican state senator with skeletons in his closet, win a Massachusetts seat formerly held by Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy for almost 50 years? It’s simple. The overhead of the country, the government, is unsustainably large, suffocating us peons who have to pay for itContinue Reading
The captions below the pictures of Brits happily wearing real fur this winter are great. “Fur keeps me warm.” “I only wear vintage — I’m a vegetarian.” “My mum wears fur and most of my friends have some fur…” “It’s a matter for each individual to decide whether they wearContinue Reading