Now and a little then

Beth and Beth are in Scotland for the Porridge Festival. She sent this note:

Was in the Isle of Skye yesterday. The cows are specially bred small because big cows would sink in the soft ground.

Carrbridge. People bring dogs and kids to the pub. I had Haggis lasagna. It was so good but I couldn't finish it. 

Well, it certainly looks lovely. Not sure about the haggis but I love menudo and it can't be much grosser to some people.

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Leslie found a cute praying mantis on our back wall. She took a video of it cleaning itself up but it is unfortunately too long for this platform.

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The scarecrow people did an extra great job this year. I love this octopus at the coffee place formerly known as the hearth.

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Dr. Neon had an epic 71st birthday party. 

I brought a friend who was worried that he was going to get dosed and said that he felt like he was at a Jefferson Airplane concert. 

He should be so lucky...

I had to tell him that we are all too old for that sort of stuff nowadays.

Very fun bunch. Lots of local and Laguna color.

Met some interesting people too.

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Had a nice dinner at Cork and Fire with Greg, Ed, Shepard and Leslie.

Greg and Ed brought two really nice bottles of wine.

Nice restaurant, we sometimes forget about it.

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I visited my friend Chuck's house recently and he showed me a guitar that once belonged to Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer.

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Big Dave sends pics from 44 years ago this week outside of the Warfield for the Dead's 15 show run in 1980.

I went to a whole mess of them, don't remember the exact count.

But the cool thing was delivering artwork to Jerry before the show, concept drawings and a painting for the new album cover painted by my friend Rick Griffin.

We had ourselves a really nice long chat, first of several.

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Happy New Year to all of my Jewish friends and brethren!