tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27838434320319823972024-03-14T05:36:21.185-07:00Tickledrop TalkTickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-50805741506407092362010-10-31T10:41:00.001-07:002010-10-31T10:58:10.674-07:00Laetiporus SulphureusThis beauty was in the local grocery store parking lot. Photo By Tickledrop ©Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-82699876679864647452009-11-19T10:24:00.000-08:002009-11-19T13:04:20.446-08:00DEVOThe Grand Regency BallroomSan Francisco, CaFriday, Nov 6, 2009General Admission FloorI am so happy I decided to go to this show. I could not make up my mind, even up to an hour before I had to leave to get to the show on time, if I should go or not. I wanted to and I knew that when I saw DEVO twenty-something years ago, the concert was one of the best I had ever seen.The show was part of a Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-5652666136863784362009-04-28T11:49:00.000-07:002009-04-28T12:01:49.121-07:00Report ThisPhoto By TickledropI noticed this really cool shirt being sported by one of our city's local news coverage photographers at the Picnic Day Parade this year. What a nice shirt!Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-50106347188551861312009-04-23T10:30:00.000-07:002009-04-23T10:41:19.716-07:00Steam Locomotive 844 Photo By TickledropThis dinosaur of a train, hailed as Union Pacific's "Living Legend," rolled through my town! I have had a fascination with trains since my youth when, for whatever reason, we always lived near train tracks. UP844 was the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific in 1944. It was saved from being scrapped in 1960 and Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-85034311018545002432009-03-29T12:07:00.000-07:002009-03-29T13:29:45.613-07:00LONE TWINThis has been entertaining.Each day Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters set out from the E Street Plaza on their compact Brompton folding bikes for a five-to six-hour ride in and around Davis, collecting stories from the folks they encounter along the way. Each evening, they return to the plaza for a 5:30 performance that mixes the theatrics of a town crier with the more conversational tone of public Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-8455899875647460192009-03-17T09:36:00.000-07:002009-03-17T09:52:12.922-07:00We need to turn up the heatTomorrow, AIG's executives are appearing before a House Subcommittee, and we've got a chance to give them a piece of our minds.Sign a petition and submit a question for the heads of AIG? Or better yet, an idea for how we should get our money back? If you do before 5 p.m. ET today, we'll make sure it gets to the committee in time for tomorrow's hearing. Click below to add your name and submit yourTickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-30182611149070103632009-02-23T09:56:00.000-08:002009-02-23T10:08:34.827-08:00LEVI WINS!LEIPHEIMER WINS 2009 TOURLevi Leipheimer (AST) wins the Amgen Tour of California for third straight year.Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-4202068461559775512009-02-20T10:08:00.000-08:002009-02-20T10:23:24.599-08:00Lance Armstrong BicycleThis is the specially designed bicycle made for Lance to ride in the Amgen Tour of California. I saw him ride it on February 14th in Sacramento for the Timed Trials. That night it was stolen from the team's bike trailer that was parked at their hotel. The bicycle has been recovered, but not before a new, specialy made to replace it had arrived on the scene. Lance says the Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-58437088751308519742009-01-13T10:45:00.000-08:002009-01-13T12:20:05.529-08:00NEIGHBORS FROM HELLA very unfortunate turn of events.I understand now the difference of good neighbors, you know, those that come over and get to know you and become good friends over the years, and the not at all good neighbors, those that move in and become the new bullies kids on the block.My neighbors, I'll call them C&C for now, moved in last spring. The day they moved in and while the moving truck was Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-58321583373291229562008-11-09T08:02:00.000-08:002008-11-09T08:22:51.087-08:00Apollo SunshineThat's this little guy! My newest purring friend!He loves to climb the peach tree!And hideout in the bamboo!Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-80872928803251512602008-09-18T09:05:00.000-07:002008-09-18T15:35:18.790-07:00Summer FriendsFun in the Front YardPhotos by Tickledrop September 9, 2008Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-17950344881979087502008-08-21T08:21:00.000-07:002008-08-21T09:06:12.272-07:00Music City USAMy friend Block and I outside The Belcourt Theater in Nashville. We were there to see an amazing band -- King Crimson.Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-60416588561871661182008-05-26T11:01:00.000-07:002008-05-26T12:27:06.394-07:00Goodbye UtahUtah Phillips who was an anarchist, hobo, railroader, folksinger, community activist, tramp, husband, father, amazing storyteller and honorable man, passed away while asleep Friday night in his home in Nevada City, California. As a regular listener of his radio show Loafer's Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind, I found his storytelling fascinating. His stories are those needing to be told about Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-63529845683329078982008-05-09T10:26:00.000-07:002008-05-09T10:46:49.571-07:00Whole Earth FestivalIt's time once again for the Whole Earth Festival, a community driven festival of education, music, and art that happens every Mother's Day weekend in the quad grove on the UC Davis campus.One of the many ways that the small, college town begins preparing!Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-36135320950895175282008-05-02T13:11:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:23:18.810-07:00Berkeley Mayor Takes a Stand for Patients and CaregiversFrom Becky DeKeuster, Berkeley Patients GroupBerkeley Mayor Tom Bates this week joined Oakland’s Ron Dellums and San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom in urging Representative John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to hold Congressional oversight hearings into attempts by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to undermine state and local medical marijuana laws. Bates’ letter Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-79679804455383039862008-05-01T09:54:00.001-07:002008-05-01T10:01:28.291-07:00Life's A Beach....Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-74643120951416633862008-04-10T20:38:00.000-07:002008-05-01T10:02:27.071-07:00Super High MeComedian Doug Benson Offers Medical Marijuana Supporters a Free DVD of his New Film Super High Me For 4/20A longtime NORML supporter, Doug is offering other supporters the opportunity to host their own screenings for his new comedic documentary Super High Me. A parody of the well-known documentary Super Size Me, Super High Me is an experiment of the effects of medical cannabis on the human Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-34147921835021466492008-03-16T11:16:00.000-07:002008-05-01T10:03:35.671-07:00All We Need Is LoveTickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-69058627463431216122008-03-14T10:06:00.000-07:002008-03-16T11:32:26.714-07:00My Springtime Starts NowFred has awakened but is very groggy. When he's not still sleeping, he's warming his shell in the sun. Fred is a twenty year old Mojave Desert Tortoise (gopherus agassizii). He is a rescued tortoise and is protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973. He was first adopted in 1989 by my mother. He was still a hatchling less than a year old. I adopted him after her death in 2000. Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-56521817218341747612007-12-20T12:14:00.000-08:002008-03-16T11:35:11.761-07:00Deep SleepI haven't seen my friend Fred since the end of September. He will sleep until early spring. Must be nice.Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-34135514561235502642007-12-05T10:10:00.000-08:002007-12-05T11:42:56.648-08:00Big Kid Toys!I see this around town! It's so cool and out of the ordinary. More....Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-44542494786009473182007-11-07T10:54:00.000-08:002007-11-07T11:06:33.035-08:00Reason TV: Drew Carey defends Medical MarijuanaReason.tv's Drew Carey Project. Drew takes a look at patients who need and use medical marijuana in California, and how the federal government is making their lives even worseTickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-50653300436668659792007-10-11T13:41:00.000-07:002007-10-19T11:07:00.708-07:00Blogger's Choice AwardsTo vote for Adrian Belew's Elephant Blog in the Blogger's Choice Awards - click on the button! Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-81909273412556638072007-09-01T16:20:00.000-07:002007-10-19T18:16:29.839-07:00Up Front Stage Right Photo courtesy of red6uitarHey Pete! Here's a picture from that night at the Stagehouse...wait, what was it called? You know, where they recorded Side Four. I'm drawing a blank on the venue name. Oh well.Sorry the picture is not so good. A friend sent it to me. Looks like it rained on the camera or something. Always clean the camera lens before the show! Live and learn I guess.Do you Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783843432031982397.post-402257810887351582007-07-24T09:06:00.000-07:002007-07-24T09:10:46.004-07:00666Wow! A dollar a minute doesn't sound nearly as bad as $6.66 per minute! YES. That's what was charged for the Int'l collect calls. Yeah. Don't ever accept these. My sister suggested I call to try to get them reduced. I like her idea.Tickledrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.com6