Moonshine Junkyard

stanny's back! so summer is TOTALLY HERE! first order of business: start our production company. stan and darin will be making video/film productions for anyone who needs it for events, promotion, or creative endeavors. their company (actually our company, since i am one of the founding associates!) is called Cinema Caldera and the website will soon be up and running! maybe now. we are so excited about this venture. here is stanny, one of my best friends on this gorgeous green earth, fresh out of film school and ready to rock and roll in his business shirt, taking notes in the backyard. getting ideas, getting inspired, making lists and notes, and making connections! thursday nights are open mic down at cozmic. we walked down to enjoy the fresh warm summer eve and hung out with some old and new friends and drink some way-too-strong Strong Blondes. here is darin with a new friend, grayson earl, who coincidentally also just graduated from film school at UC Irvine. me, darin and RICH...

darin and i found these matching hand-sewn batik outfits at the thrift store the other day for $1.50 apiece. not sure when we'll actually wear them out, but i thought they were pretty fabulous.

Year after year, the El Dorado County Fair never changes much. Cheesy pop singers, plastic cups of Bud Light, Aerosmith on the gravitron, the rattly old Zipper, roasted ears of corn, weird wizard fortune telling machines, corn dogs, cotton candy, frothy lemonade, goats, cows, hay, hypnotists, Wranglers, bubbles in the air, the slight smell of puke everywhere, mixed with chewing gum, coca cola, cigarettes and farm animals. You gotta love it. Darin, Joey, Emma and I in the photo booth, 11:30 pm. And our new end-of-the-night friend, the photo booth guy Chris. He showed us his own pictures for an example and this was his "bad ass" exhibit. He says you gotta be a bad ass in life. But he was really a total softie and only 18 years old, working 9 months in a row to help take care of his baby nephew. We talked to him for a long time and then I asked for his pictures and he gladly gave them to me! Britney and Ronen having ice cream. She had to hold it for him because he broke his thu...

here's a little love shout out to our little runaway.

yesterday a big group of us hiked down to the cosumnes river at buck's bar on the way out to somerset. mikie set up this group shot with his camera and had to swim over to us in ten seconds! here we are, left to right: martin, dan trudeau, zack and rebecca, darin and me, joey and emily, stan and lesley, and mikie! nick savino also arrived a few minutes after this and then on our way back up we met addie and art on the trail, finally on their way to meet us but a little (waaayyy)too late. my favorites are always the polaroids. here's me, em, and lesley: mikie and rebecca doing yoga on the rock: this one i took on accident. i was going to set up the timer and do the group shot with the polaroid but then instead of closing it i took a picture(and it was my last one)! oh well...kind of a cool shot of darin and the rock tip: since we didn't have any children with us (sylvan) for a change we were able to go to some spots that are a little more difficult to reach. we did have to ...

sooooo....here's my life right now. darin is totally in love with camilla (the kitten). and she had to be spayed today and get shots. poor baby, but she's doing fine. here they are, most cozy. we're on a diet. i'll go ahead and REFRAIN from any visual aid to illustrate. we're just trying to be healthier, that's all. i am working on drawing a map of our neighborhood but it feels much more magical to walk it. i want to make a map of my dreamlands. i constantly wonder this: what should i do with a Masters in literature? i made a june playlist which i am totally in love with. it's jolly and lovely. there's this song called "singing to the earth" by apollo sunshine that is so perfect for my days. wish i knew a way to share it here. we're going to our favorite JUNE river spot (this changes depending on the time of summer): buck's bar on wednesday with a nice group of friends. come join us! sat on the patio tonight at gringo's under colore...

The days are cloudy and cool for June so I'm forced into finding other amusements besides the river and sun worship. Addie and I met at Mom's to do some sewing. We are each making a very simple little dress with a band around the top of the chest and a ruffle at the bottom by the knees. I am using vintage fabrics of patchwork (you can see in the polaroid) and polka dot. I'm pretty terrible at sewing but with Mom's expert help I think it will turn out cute!

Bandini is still missing. We have scoured the neighborhood, putting up posters and giving out color flyers with pictures of him and our phone number. Everyone around here is being really nice and trying to be helpful, but still no sign of him. A lot of neighbors claim to have seen a smallish orange kitty (sometimes they say orange and white) and a few different people have reported he has a hurt cheek. But we have not glimpsed him and he does not answer our calls. The interesting thing about all this is we have walked the streets of our neighborhood repeatedly and have gotten to know it fairly intricately. There are no straight lines around here, the streets curve and continue and weave through the hills, and a stone's throw away is a different neighborhood. There are little apartment buildings tucked at the end of hidden roads, and houses with big decks where lots of cats eat for free, and abandoned homes with unlocked doors and unfinished projects. It's kind of haunting, and ...

we miss our boy so much. he has been missing for three days and nights now and we are worried sick. look at this little orange lump of LOVE! we ALL love to cuddle with him. he is such a beam of sunshine in our household every day adventurous explorer, always interested in whatever is going on around him he tends to fall asleep ANYWHERE with the new baby kitten...maybe he got jealous but he was sure starting to be sweet to her! curious always the BEST snuggler on earth. you've never met a cat who likes to snuzzle like this.