July 4th: This picture was taken just after I got back from participating in the 4th of July parade down in the Rose Garden area of San Jose.

        

     

   

I'm excited by all the flowers on my Kiwi plant. They mean fruit on it are only months away if I'm lucky!

     

Monday February 8, 2016. In keeping with my tradition of putting a picture of the national debt up again every time it crosses another trillion dollars, here's proof that it's happened again. This time I went through the change in my pocket to see what the farthest apart Presidents I could find there were, chronologically speaking. The oldest was easy, George Washington, the first. They had high expectations for the Presidential dollar coins back then, so they made a lot of them. It's still the most common one of the series. He retired from the job in 1797. The newest turned out to be James Garfield, who held the job for a while in 1881. He was one of the ones that didn't complete even one term.