Neko
Dear Diary . . .
OK, Scavenger Hunt part two coming right up!
11. Someone dancing
OK, I admit it looks rather lame, but here's the thing. Sophia, Poolie's dog, was madly chasing about trying to get the dancing soap bubbles, and it was vastly amusing!
12. Sealions playing
Well, since we didn't get to the beach on Saturday, I could dig up an old photo of sea lions playing that I took back in '04, but I won't.
13. A figure of authority
Beanie and I were watching a few kids trying to break their skulls open by skateboarding down the stairs at the park, when along came a cop to stop them and their antics! I know it doesn't look like they are even moving, but they were hot on the chase of those scofflaw skateboarders!
14. Tacky statue
There is nothing tackier than decorations festooning (neener) the Mexican festival known as Dia de la Muerta (Day of the dead) in which people remember those who have passed before us.
There is likewise nothing tackier than Michael Jackson at his height of power. Here for your enjoyment is a statue that combines the two things.
15. Garish colours
Truly, there were a few items that really, really got me going. Red coloured plants was one, and so was fire. But I think garish colours takes the figurative cake...and to prove that, here are TWO entries in this category...I just couldn't choose! 
Really, while we were in that shop, all I heard was "Hissie would luurrve this!", and also,"That looks just like Hissie!", and it's true. Had I more money, Hissie would have been first on my shopping list there!
16. A Princess
OK, I know I'm REALLY stretching now, but I just wanted to include this faboo beer tray, OK? And doesn't that remind you of Miss Hiss?
17. Someone asleep
OK, So I missed out on the opportunity to take photos of the other hunters as they snoozed, and I can't get the one of me snoozing that's on Meg's camera, so here's the only other photo I have of someone sleeping.
I do have to say that Beanie and BlueSleepy missed a great opportunity to snap a pic of me catching flies on Thursday morning, and I appreciate their forbearance!
18. Aircraft in flight
Do you know how many times while at Balboa Park I hushed other people when I heard a plane taking off or landing so I could get a picture? But by the time I wanted a picture of a plane, we were in a location that you couldn't see the flight path, so tough noogies I guess.
19. Wool
HAH! I found wool! Come hunters, gather 'round, for here is wool, in much quantity, and of lovely quality and garish colour!
20. A Javelina!
And now for the piece de resistance...the naughty javelina who started it all. You see, once upon a time, Miss Rosie noticed the naughty javelina coming into her orchard to eat the fallen fruit, thereby terrifying her precious pooch, Thor, and causing much damage to Miss Rosie's fence.
Early, early one morning, Josh, Miss Rosie's beloved, called her forth to witness the depredations of said javelina. In fact, the javelina we actually mating in Miss Rosie's garden! Oh, the horrors! Fornication on Miss Rosie's property, and no video camera set to capture the action!
So Miss Rosie tried valiantly to catch the copulating porcine cousins in the act...without much luck. But she did witness them prancing through the orchard, and she caught one naughty javelina trying to hide behind a tree, his beady little eyes gleaming as if to say, "I'm hiding, you can't see me". Shortly after this, the naughty javelina went through the break in the fence that they had made that morning, and they went on their merry way, and Josh prepared to fix the fence.
When Miss Rosie was graced by a visit from no other than Captain Poolie and Miss Beanie, she told the tale of the copulating porkers, and the Hunt was born. Poolie, Beanie and Rosie went forth that night with offerings to the porcine one, but alas! it was in vain, because unknown to Miss Rosie, the usually shy javelina had withdrawn for their mating season and not one was to be found.
This is why the Javelina Hunt is held in the latter part of the year, when they are completely elusive...or indeed, in places which have never before heard of a javelina. We are searching for that which cannot be found...
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