Eye Level Pasadena

(This is actually last year’s turkey. This year’s just went into the oven.)

Goodbye, Wild Oats.

It’s so empty.

We’ll miss you.

Kelly at West Coast Grrlie Blather has posted a great collection of links about the new Whole Foods flagship store.

Bikers participating in Love Ride 24

We saw a group of people standing on a 210 freeway overpass looking down at the freeway at 9:30 this morning, so we pulled over and got out, too. When we couldn’t see anything unusual happening on the freeway, we asked one of them what was going on. We learned that a bunch of motorcyclists were on their way from Glendale to Pomona as part of California Bike Week, and that Jay Leno was going to be among them. We didn’t stay long enough to see the big mass of motorcyclists that were on their way, but we did see a few groups of bikers who were ahead of the pack.

We also saw one Santa biker.

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Metropolitan Coffee & Tea
(across the street from Vroman’s)
Saturday, November 10
10:00 a.m. – noon

(Advice is free. We offer no guarantees, other than that we’ll probably be happy to see you. We’ve been happy to see everyone we’ve ever met through office hours. It’s fun to meet people.)

Last week Caltech harvested its campus olives and sent them off to be pressed into olive oil.

Olive harvesting

Trees in the lineup

More links:

• Caltech Olive Harvest Festival website
• Cook and Nifty Wench: Olive Harvest
• Tableau Vivante: EVENT: CalTech Olive Harvest Redux…phew

Under the lily pads

Gena at Out On the Stoop posted video footage from our last Pasadena bloggers’ picnic.

It reminded me of how much fun I had that day — and it also reminded me that the 3rd quarterly picnic is coming up soon. If you are a local blogger and would like to receive information about the next picnic, please leave a message in the comments. All Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley area bloggers are welcome.

Frog in hiding

I’ve been playing hooky here for the past month or so, and in the meantime, I’ve been working on something new. I’m a stepmom, and the kids’ mom and I decided to start a blog with stories about our experiences and ideas and tips about raising kids in two houses.

It’s called The Doughtie Houses Exchange, which was originally the name we gave the envelopes we’d give the kids to put in their backpacks and deliver to the other house. (Don’t worry — this wasn’t — and isn’t — our only method of communication. We also talk on the phone and email constantly.) But our kid-mail system was symbolic for both of us of how we try to cooperate between houses — how we make sure the other house has copies of all the important papers, for starters. So we named our blog after it. I’m very excited about where this might go. I hope to see you there: http://thedhx.com.

And now that it’s launched, I promise to be here more, too.

Construction on Mentor and San Pascual

It’s a very deep hole.