Rover...Are You Out There?

Rover...are you out there? Your pals were celebrating without chu at Ginny Ruffner's and thinking fondly of your sweet self. Over Rover and out.

Whatever Lola Wants!

Whatever Lola Wants...Lola Gets! She wanted a leopard blanket that Cyndee brought to Dusty...but...she wanted it on the Chartruce Western Wagonwheel sofa...well...I think you can see the result. She's irresistable.

Jamie Kabler's Fabulous New Addition

Jamie Kabler has the leading photographic images collection in the desert. This is one of his latest additions.

Ginny Ruffner's Vineyard

Ginny Ruffner's kitchen comes complete with it's own pinot vineyard. Some of the area's finest grapes hail from the Ballard district!

Beazy Boo in the Liberace Suite!

One of the favorite regulars among us at The Sands is Beazy Boo. She generally visits Palm Springs and this little pink motel once a month. She fits right in as this picture attests. The leopard spread in the Liberace Suite suits her complexion.

Ruby and Mrs. Claus!

Ginny Ruffner hosts a mean Xmas Party! She reveled in the attendance of nearly 300 cheery guests. Regular Sands family members were abundant within those attendees.

Ginny sports the finest Mixmaster collection in the land. Her secret garden is beyond reproach.

Hats off to Ginny!

Ginny and her Entourage will takeover The Sands on 19th, 20th and 21st. Her show at Imago Gallery in Palm Desert will be Saturday the 20th of January.

Boom Ball Squaw Turns 29

Laurie Weed, darling of the Coral Sands and everybody's favorite vagabond, celebrates another one today, December 9th!

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Currently in Laos, Miss Weed is a junior chronicler of the Sands and devoted master of the boom ball. Laurie and Ruby were secretly married last year in a private ceremony on the white trash patio. Only Ruby was in attendance, Miss Weed was nowhere to be found.

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Happy Birthday, Weedie! We love you!!!!

Imagine

John Lennon, October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980.
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Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe.

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like X-Files

Doesn't the little pink motel look festive? If you had to make a choice right now: Santa's House at the North Pole or Ruby Montana's Coral Sands, which would you pick?
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Both are magical places, one lives in the heart, the other has heart.
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Monkey lights or elves? Toy shop or white trash patio? Louie, Lola, and Dusty or Donder and Blitzen? Ginger bread cookies or lemon pie?
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Tough, isn't it?

The Joads Do Golf and Houseboat Living

Ruby's Oklahoma relatives, The Joads, pulled up for a visit recently, carrying all their belongings as their Okie tradition demands of them (See Mr. Steinbeck, chronicler of the Joads).

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Though they've modernized a bit and are careful to blend in by observing local customs, these folks always cause a rucus when they come to town.

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Ecclesiastes 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.