Please. I plead with you. Live deeply. You may be young now but it goes. Fast. It is a breath.

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22. Sounds like the Bay Area. We had a/c added to the home there.

Copper tubing was already in the slab floor. IIRC, the company was a scam and vanished but our guy did good work. With the heat wave, I am rationing home a/c in Sierra Foothills and living in one room at a time with window units. Electricity is toooo expensive. Useful when power goes out because propane for the backup generator is also insane, and unregulated as well.

I will try to get closer to the Pacific again. At my age, I really ought to rent. I can and do still repair and maintain but it's less fun. Especially the extension ladder.

Time with kids is golden. Neighbors filled in between parent shifts, but I had evening Dad duty and built a great relationship with super-daughter. Best way to get the kid to sleep was a ride in the pickup truck.

I got great photos living near the coast, and on a recent visit to Richmond, got shore bird photos galore.

Photography has been my hobby for some 50+ years, and music, for about ( age -5 ) or so. I just worked on some Brahms.

Even if my choice of location did not turn out as expected, I really have gotten great photos, some top quality ones just last Tuesday. It's a good feeling when Mother Nature upstages some, but not all, of previous work.

Trying to make every day memorable and valuable.

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