Tag Archives: the aerie
Easy Go
Last month, the Beloved and I watched the film Margin Call. It was a dramatized take on the events at a prominent Wall Street financial firm (they should have disguised the name as Breeman Lothers) as the home mortgage based … Continue reading
Penny’s Big Day
It was a big day around The Aerie yesterday – Penny’s 3rd Birthday! We celebrated by signing up for a 5k Walk/Run to benefit one of the local animal hospitals and shelters. Lost in the fine print of the sign-up … Continue reading
Point of Contention
It probably comes as no surprise that from time to time we enjoy a good happy hour here at The Aerie. But other than mixing a good cocktail, what else does that involve? Well, when it’s either too dark (Standard … Continue reading
New Year’s Inspiration
One of the staples in the Christmas stockings at The Aerie for the past couple of years has been a couple of magazines. These are usually ones that we commonly don’t get and are often of the silly or trashy … Continue reading
Interlude
There are a couple of days here at The Aerie starting around noon on Christmas Day when nothing happens. And I mean nothing. After the gifts are open, we all settle in (the “all” this year, like last year, was … Continue reading
Rumtopf Revelations
We finished an almost yearlong experiment this past week – not at the lab, but at home. You see, last year a friend of our had inherited Rumtopf from an elderly aunt and wanted to know if we could try … Continue reading
Bird House
I’ve been under the weather for the past couple of days, which means a lot of tea, streaming Netflix, and hanging with the nurse-dog Penny. Earlier, I was checking my email, when I heard a commotion in the other room. … Continue reading
Chaparral Time
One thing we’ve begun to notice over the past several months is that Penny isn’t quite as worn out by our morning walk to the top of Mt Miramar as she used to be, and that she is almost always … Continue reading
The Dark Side
You might have heard that all of San Diego County (population 3,000,000+), and parts of Orange County, Imperial County, northern Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico practically simultaneously lost electrical power yesterday afternoon. It was very bizarre. Now, the building that … Continue reading
