Sorry for not getting anything together recently.  I could blame it on the summer heat, which would be an easy out, but not very honest.  If you live in Central California, you accept the searing, debilitating heat as a fact of life - and that means you can't whine or use it as an excuse.  Can't blame it on the dog this time either, cause she's on to that ploy and won't let us get away with that one again.  In my defense, not a lot has happened down here this summer to write about.