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I’ve been texted about 15 polls in the last two months. I’ve answered all of them. Half of the polls sent to me were not in my voting area, but nearby. #voteblue

$197 for 24 gallons of diesel at the Lerdo highway Chevron station in California #voteblue

$100 for 12 gallons of diesel in Bakersfield, California. #voteblue

$7.94 a gallon. South of Lost Hills on the Lerdo Highway off the 5. Cheapest diesel in the area.

$7.94 a gallon at the chevron at the lerdo highway and the 5. $116 for 14 gallons of diesel

I paid $225 for an oil change on a Duramax diesel yesterday.

$7.85 a gallon for diesel off of the 5, south of Lost Hills, California.

Anyone else get woken up at 1:00 am by a family of raccoons playing on their roof? Just me huh?

With Trump’s ongoing war against Iran continuing, this is the only instance I can find of an enemy surrendering only after air attacks. But there was an invasion fleet off the coast of Panterrelia and the Nazis were running low on water.

Summertime is my grandson walking through the kitchen in his bathing suit, grabbing a hand towel off the oven doors and walking out to the pool. Me: “What are you going to do with the hand towel?” Grandson as he gets in the pool: “It’s an eel now.” #summer2026

Anti-Trump stickers hit differently on the California Central Coast. #trumpdontsurf

Paid for the cheapest diesel in Paso Robles, California at the low price of $7.49 a gallon. That’s $150 for 20 gallons of diesel. This is not sustainable.

I just paid $7.05 a gallon for diesel in Bakersfield, California. My biggest concern is that I might look back nostalgically next week at $7.05 a gallon.

Doom scrolling is on the next level today. We are 60 days into 2026.

Tomorrow is the 39th anniversary of my wife and I’s first date. Our first date was on Friday the 13th but I didn’t leave her house until Valentine’s Day. We made chocolate chip cookies. We were together for 36 years. Cindy passed from cancer in 2023. I miss her every day.

January rose blooms. I love California.

America changed on January 7, 2026. The video of the shooting in Minneapolis and the federal government’s response as well as the President’s lying post have finally hit the level of outrageous. Now we see how the country reacts.

January 4,2026: “Whew, what a year this has been! I’m sure everything will improve in 2027.”

Found an old, empty bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 on the beach after a storm. I miss the 1980’s, but not enough to drink ‘Orange Jubilee’ Mad Dog. It must take like cough syrup.

Why wetlands are so important for migratory birds. There are multiple variety of shore birds cleaning the salt water off their feathers along the Central California coast.

Thanksgiving Break has officially begun.

A tribute to someone’s mother named Linda. But for those who know, know.

My friends Dan and Lisa helped me re-install the McKittrick Tar Pits marker for the Kern County Historical Society on Saturday. Kern County used to have Dire Wolves and Saber Tooth Cats! I haven't started my 20 year old Honda 2000i generator in 5 five years, started on first pull. amazing

My brush with fame: Robert Redford was standing on the front porch of WSU president Glen Terrell's house in the early 1980s. I was walking to class and took a short cut up the president's driveway. Robert was in his bathrobe with a cup of coffee, raised it and said good morning as I passed.

This might be the most random item - other then the clip to a 9 mm pistol - that I have found while walking the Streets of Bakersfield.

Our family was riding around in the truck yesterday and my 4 year old great nephew saw a porta-potty in the back of a delivery truck when he said, “Look! A toilet box!” Our new name for porta-potties.

I guess we can stop saying, “It’s just like 1930s in Germany!” No, it’s 2025 in America.

Last week I found a 9mm clip in a crosswalk. Today I found a fishing pole. I wonder what tomorrow’s tide will bring in.

The simple beauty of a low tide. #sansimeon

The California central coast early in the morning. The only tracks on the beach were pelicans and seagulls. #california

Over the years, I have found some very random things while on a walk. But a 9 mm Ruger clip laying in the crosswalk? That’s a first. But then again, I live in Bakersfield….

Memorial Day and my wife’s birthday on the same day. I would have loved to have made her a cake and shared it with our daughter and grandson. I miss my Sargent.

Coyote, deer and raccoon tracks on the beach this morning. #centralcalifornia #sansimeon

A perfect abalone shell! #centralcalifornia #sansimeon

Came across my first Cobweb Thistle in bloom while hiking along the Central California coast today.

I may have the best looking accidentally landscaped gas meter in all of northern San Luis Obispo county!

What good is government unless it doesn’t help the people?

With the Trump administration trying to distract and dodge from the #whiskeygate controversy, a reminder that a crossword puzzle, with codewords as answers, almost derailed the D-Day landings in France on June 6, 1944. Operational security matters.

Available homemade #Philidelphiaeagles sign in an antique store in Cayucos, California. The attached tag alone makes the sign priceless.

I think Harley Quinn has the correct attitude. #sacramento

February in California baby!! (That’s my grandson) #Bakersfield #california