I will never forget my most courageous sister, Jeanie (Giovanna/Gianna) Urbano. Jeanie died of complications due to Multiple Sclerosis at 12:20 a.m. on July 5, 2011 (10:20 p.m. Seattle time on July 4). Her beautiful sons, John and Vince Urbano, were at her side as she took her last breath. [...]
We arrived at the coast around 5 pm today and were shocked to see Rick's fancy homemade source-of-great-pride uber-genius-engineered raccoon-proofed, squirrel-proofed, and crow-proofed bird feeder BENT at the base of the thick iron plumbing pipe and nearly on the ground! "Who would do such a thing???" We looked [...]
On Sunday, we saw him again and Rick got more great shots! Here's the follow up on the "magical" bold buck with his showy rack of antlers... I guess we need a HUGE enclosure around our fruit orchard. Otherwise, we [...]
Summer weekends at Ocean Shores are very magical. Take for instance this handsome fearless buck who simply walked right past-within three feet of- Rick! Bucks never do that! They are very shy and stay well hidden. For a moment we both held our breath, not believing what we were seeing. [...]
Marsha is studying Italian and asked me to send her a list of some Italian films. As I started brainstorming, I realized there are a ton of great Italian films and so this blog entry was born! Over the years, I have watched so many Italian films. I attended the [...]