The Canadian Rockies are currently experiencing their best weather window since the fall, and everyone here is scrambling to make the most of it. June tends to be rather wet around these parts so it could be a while before we are again able to bask in a week-long stretch of sunshine.

May hereis usually a great time of year for ski mountaineering, and this year was no exception.

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Toby loved visiting Cousin Luna when he went to San Francisco.

The trip to Ft. Funston.

Playing on the beach.

Enjoying the bite Luna would leave in her bowl for him.

Exploring the back yard.

Being together.

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Luna went over the Rainbow Bridge today.

Leaving paw prints on our hearts.

Play hard with brother Fellini and your cousins Maggie and Toby!

We’ll miss you, Luna.

I used to get beach calendars every Christmas under the tree and as a child and I often wondered where all the beautiful places with clear blue water and white sand beaches were in this world. Turns out, Indonesia has its fair share.

Gila means crazy in Indonesian (one of my favorite word combos is bugil, bule (foreigner) + …

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I need to read more.  I feel well-informed of current affairs from reading various news media, but I don’t read enough books.  I used to love thumbing through books, especially historical fiction novels that had something to do with China and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.  Now I spend the majority of my day at work staring at a computer screen, only to come home to stare at a computer screen perusing through different food-related websites, my blog, and anything else of interest.  

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Recently I took my dog Trudeau on an excursion to Dimple Dell Nature Park in Sandy, Utah. This adventure was extensively researched and pre-planned, by which I mean that I was looking for directions to somewhere else on Google Maps and found myself wondering what that big block of green was over there and whether it might be of some use to me in attempting to exhaust my dog, and so I decided to take him there completely on impulse.

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Just another typical day at the office…or not! A few weeks ago we shot an episode of Sam the Cooking Guy at the SD Safari Park and got to go behind the scenes.  I’ve lived in San Diego my entire life, and always wanted to do a photo safari! It was so fun getting up close and personal with the animals!!

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Things done repeatedly in increments of three are recognized universally as distress signals.  When sounds or visual things in increments of three are heard or seen they are recognized as a call for assistance.  Some examples of using repetitions of three as a distress signal are as follows.

• Three toots of a car horn
• Three blasts of an air horn.

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The Minnesota River starts near the border of Minnesota and South Dakota. It flows southeast, then northeast, like a sort of backward check-mark on the lower half of Minnesota. The river is the southerly border of the City of Bloomington, a Minneapolis suburb, and shortly thereafter flows into the Mississippi. There are numerous paths along the river for hiking, biking, and horseback riding (and snowmobiling in the winter).

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A National Geographic photo of three volcanoes:

“Mount Semeru, seen with an ash plume, is the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java and has been in a constant eruption since 1967.  It lies at the southern end of the Tengger caldera, which contains smaller volcanoes Mount Bromo and Mount Batok (both seen in the foreground), and several others.”