Summer '09: Far out West
Handyman Thump gets to know Agnes the emu.

Hiking the hills on John Kinder's organic farm spread above Carmel Valley

Sunset in the Big South.

You gotta love summertime. Latest coups: camping at the Burning Flipside festival outside Austin (and dancing and singing and swimming and winning a trophy in the Burning Glam Fashion Show). Taking home two Hefty bags of orchids from the Human Rights Campaign dinner. Here's Reggae enjoying fraction of them, and a little movie that Thumper shot of the ones we tossed into the pool.