Well yes, Blog almost went; first the camera died [replaced with the slightly sketchier “backup” camera], then there was the lengthy [begun in Nevada] meltdown involving email which required, ultimately, replacement of the entire ancient OS while in a separate scenario WordPress deteriorated unto utter time-sucking unusability.

After many fruitless days of this and an outside consultation a workaround seems to have been effected though meanwhile chronic exasperation with the whole process set in. Nonetheless, having already collected images of the unusually dry and warm weeks following

Thanksgiving

I’ll offer them here, belatedly.

While stuck on the screen waiting for the blog to upload, download, refresh and/or lose media files I sought solace binging on the adventures of Brent Underwood in his “ghost town”, which occur in an environment reminiscent of the deserts of my adolescence. Hits and missives would sometimes fail to open for an entire episode.  Very annoying…I’d go on to watch another, often

to no avail. Meanwhile Benicia town, quietly masked, never failed to Amaze,

putting forth Art for the holidays, or your S&M basement, depending.

Trouble on the water,

and also not;

certainly not anything like a normal December on said water.  Or said town; new tires

and a muffler for the Tundra, morning walks with dogs, masked paranoid-seeming citizens

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and pepper flowers for our luncheon quesadillas as the Inkies ate

us.

Saturday December 5th the long-suffering rarely seen Library Show finally came home although

the travails and annoyances of computer-dumb continued well into the week.  As they are now hopefully gone Blog may not yet be gone after all.

Well we’ll see.