Monday Monday

Man I loved the Mamma's N Pappa's vocal group-----. I was kinda between jobs when "Monday Monday was blasting the airwaves, recall I spend a goodly number of nights dallying at one of my local haunts, nursing one beer for a couple hours, and listening to that song, and kinda feeling sorry for myself---but then lucky guy that I am, I found a job and had to rejoin the human rat race----but that's a whole different story and is ancient history now. Today, this MONDAY, still smarting from the Plumbing bill, followed by the rotten time at my local supermarket, we (the LP and I that is), dared spit into the face of destiny and scheduled our annual furnace inspection. I am pleased to report we passed with no trouble----the guy even complimented us on how clean our furnace filter was (damn thing should be, I take it out and hose it clean every month)----anyway, as the sun slowly sinks in the west , as it is prone to do---and as the temperature outside falls below 75 degrees, the LP and I smile as the old furnace kicks on and warm air blows from the vents-----life is good.

Blog Central

Being a relative newcomer to blogging , am learning new stuff everyday here. Meeting new people, making new friends and contacts. I am never really sure just what I should post about, so a lot of what ya see here is strictly off the top of the old dude's head hear. Some posts however are in response to either questions that come my way, or responses required to reply to Meme's or flat out personal challenges.
This particular post is just that---its my response to accepting the challenge made by the author of the blog "Life Is Good"----and posting a pic of my Lil cubby hole where I create my blogging posts. As you can see its a typical male, cluttered, not neat area----but hey its comfortable and works for me. The picture on the wall, in case you were wondering, is a painting of one of the Ladies in Waiting of the Queen of Hawaii's court, they were verry into Victorian dress style .

Some shots of the Back Yard

Here you can see a couple shots of the back yard, not a good pic of the Shrub,it is due for its quarterly pruning, but you can still get the idea of how it looks when properly barbered. (the place where i do all my reading is at the end of the walk and behind the pine tree. Its where I go when I ---"vaunt to be alone".

The Master bedroom

Two views of the bedroom, one allows a peek into the master bath, and you might recognize the chair and low table from an earlier blog Art of Matilija 03, in the other shot, if ya look closely you will see yours truly reflected in the mirror on the left side of the pic taking the pic., one may turn right at the stuffed chair and exit out onto the patio.

------and The Master Bath

this is a peek at the master bath

The Art of Matilija 09

This particular shot, is of one corner section of the wall in the den. Of particular note, the drawing of the Lil dutch girl, was done by Elizebeth Phister, age 14----done in colored chalks, on the back of a brown paper bag---later she married my father, and became my mother.----oooh, the Italian Ball Mask is kinda a unique touch, don't ya think?

The Art of Matilija 08

In the continuing series, of Art on display here at the Matilija Palace, we have the Harlequin Music box----the music it plays is the theme from the Movie, "Somewhere In Time"----(A Movie I can heartily recommend to those that like"romantic tear jerkers")

The Art of Matilija 07

What we have here is a creative whittling of a railroad tie, into a rather eye catching Candle holder-----you don't see THOSE everyday.

Art of Matilija 06

"Aunte Mame, eat your heart out----InJAAh, where the mountains rise into the mist, and ------and the world is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death" (Hey Rent the movie, I consider it Rosalind Russell's best). This delightful lady reposes in one corner of our Dining room-----

Art of Matilija 05

Another small placement of artwork in our dining room It is an original by the Artist Horn (I believe he only did about 2000 or so for export), still it looks damn nice----I don't want to talk about what the frame cost.

The Art of Matilija 04

Amazing what a good dried floral arrangement can do for a room. The walls you are looking at, are textured plaster, painted a light adobe color, and the lightly brushed with adobe white on the higher levels of the plaster to accent the texture------. More on the Art of Matilija will be forth coming in future blogs---I don't wish to overwhelm ya with the magnificence of the abode here, by exposing to much in one sitting----besides its almost noon---close enough for us functioning alcoholics, who this early in the month can still can afford to keep cold beer in the fridge.

Art of Matilija 03

Sometimes stark is an attention getter, allowing the viewers to participate in a quiet non-distracting moment-----or its some advertising nut doing his best to sell ya a pig in a poke---sorry guys may have to revisit this shot and learn how to zoom--this pic just doesn't really show ya the subtle details that really 'Make" the shot---my baad.

Art of Matilija 02

The above sculpture is located in the dining room of our house here on Matilija ave. I would ask you all to pay some attention to the over all aspects of the room. It appears to be a rather old room does it not---perhaps one could describe the overall appearance to be of a room not unlike some old Spanish hacienda in old Spain----well the effect is deliberate boys and girls---the column just behind the sculpture is fake, and the dirt you see caked in the corner of the walls, is painted on, ----I could go on about the recessed lighting etc, but that's not reflected in the above pic and strays to far from the theme----the Art of Matilija House.

Its going on 9AM here, and I'm back from the weekly session of "fluff and fold". I managed to ruin a perfectly good new sweatshirt by washing a set of the new place mats I had bought with my colors---they ran, but by beige sweatshirt now has all the ambiance of a badly tied dyed rag----fortunately that seems to be the only thing effected-----so on a scale of plus or minus 5---would score my day so far as a +2 (mainly reflecting that the overall chore of fluff and fold is done----albeit badly (sigh)---okay, okay!!! I admit it, ---I flunked Laundry this week----can't win em all!!!