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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Tuesday T-Shirt Tales: Briar's Patch Iditarod Team

T-shirt tales? Because every t-shirt tells a story, don't it.
And I have so very many of them. Shirts. And stories. ---- Whaaaaat??

All T-Shirt Tales

SUMMARY: Revisiting a friend's story

SORRY--I posted this and then took it down again because I had a lot more to add.  Now it's back. 

A woman I met through agility decided to run the Iditarod one year (years after ceasing dog agility). She did. She completed the whole thing, and did not come in last. An impressive effort.  I already wrote about it in this prior post, "Goals and the Iditarod", back in 2008.

The picture is her and her team, practicing around the rim of Crater Lake.

Good t-shirts are always worth getting out and doing things in, sooooo--




The shirt apparently enjoyed hiking with the Merle Girls.
Gathering for a hike with the local Sierra Singles group of the Sierra Club. Oct 2008.



The inspirational shirt makes it to the top of our local Coyote Peak
with the Merle Girls. August, 2009. 




The shirt helps with my note-taking at our photo club's macro workshop.
August 2012.



The lovely shirt appears again, at the old Douglas Memorial Bridge 
across the Klamath River near Oregon. 
This old bridge washed away in a massive flood in 1964
after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the area.
They kept the approach to the bridge and the original bears to remember it by.
May 2018.


The new Douglas Memorial Bridge is about half a mile upriver, with newer, fancier, goldier 
California Golden Bears. 

 
That same morning, in my hotel in Eureka (CA), I found myself in a selfie mood.


Who says Zoom work meetings can't be fun?
The Iditarod shirt makes another appearance. June 2020.


BONUS FUN FACT: The shirt looks like a slightly different color in every photo. It's really a lovely rich forest green. I gave up trying to get a photo of what it "really" looks like, because it varies by camera and ambient light. The joys of photography. 


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Monday, April 06, 2020

Pooh Bear Joins Distant Cousins in Cheering Up Kids

SUMMARY: The teddy bear hunt project while COVID-19 isolates us

This weekend (April 5, 2020), I pulled out and admired the psychedelic Pooh bear that my friend made for me in 1970, when we were high school freshmen together. Yes, still in touch, emailing with her on Friday. Then I placed him in my front 2nd story window in case any kids come wandering up my lonely little cul de sac.

I have friends in Canada, England, and Australia who are doing the same, and it's happening in my local neighborhood, and many other places as well.  Here's a little more info, but you can search online and find any number of articles about it:
https://wobm.com/teddy-bear-hunt-is-keeping-kids-safely-occupied-during-covid-19/