Better Late Than Never

These just in, Halloween pictures of my grandsons.

This is Keenan who was a Green Zombie! Ooooooo so scary!

Rylan: A Transformer Bumblebee

It's Great Being a Girl!

I think most women would agree that there are alot of great things about being a woman, there's the being spoiled (if you like that kind of thing), the shopping (if you like that kind of thing), the decorating (if you like that kind of thing), there's all the great clothes (if you like that kind of thing) and there are those great friendships that we accumulate along the way.

One thing I particularly love are "girl lunches"! There is something really special about spending two hours eating and talking and contemplating dessert that make these lunches so great! Today Trisha, Sarah and I met in Berkeley for a delicious assortment of food and conversation. Today was a "10"!

Christmas Baking

Well, Christmas is just about upon us and I wanted to share this wonderful link! Have fun looking for the perfect cookie, cake, pie, candy and bread recipes! http://www.northpole.com/Kitchen/Cookbook/

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Make a Smilebox greeting

A Great Memory

Note: I try not to mention big names in my blog because I don't want the "whole world" knowing our personal business. My sister Victoria sent me this picture recently and it brought to mind a wonderful memory I would like to share. Several years ago while in Seattle we went to an absolutely wonderful restaurant in Tacoma with Victoria and Dan and their friends Gary and Donna and JoAnn and Craig. As one does when they hang out with these folks we drank and dined and drank some more. As dinners go, it was a "10". I might add that our 1/4th of the tab was over $200.00! Anyway, back to the memory! After dinner we went to a glass blowing studio, as I recall, within walking distance of the restaurant. The setting is like an amphitheater and we were lucky enough to see some glass blowing action. The picture above is that of many hand blown glass flowers that are just laying in a glass overpass near the studio! I wanted to lay down on the dirty sidewalk to view it overhead but Victoria had the brilliant idea to grab my two feet, Steve grabbed me under the arms so that I was laying down, thus making it possible to take all this beauty in without the neck strain or the dirty clothes.  This experience was like being a human kaleidoscope and it was the icing on my evening's cake!

Marc in Thailand

As some of you may know, Marc is in Thailand. From the look on his face, in all the pictures we've seen so far, he is having a wonderful time! It would be great to go and see what he is seeing first hand but for now we will have to live vicariously thru him. Stay safe Marc and keep those pictures coming!

Bonus Visit!

What a lovely surprise! Victoria came for a visit this last week and we had a grand time! The waitress snapped this picture just before we started our usual "crying fest"! Nothing to be concerned about, we cry about anything!

This is the Asian Museum in San Francisco. Victoria is the one on the far left.

Halloween is about.........

ghosts, goblins and scary costumes but it is also Ann's birthday! Happy Birthday Ann Please follow the link to see a glimpse of what Ann has been up to these last few years: Turn up your volume for the video, the music is great!

Introducing.............

the Cockscomb. Michael a few boats down has been bringing me flowers (he has an in with a flower person) and this week this particular flower was in the bunch. It looks like something you would see while snorkeling, it really is beautiful!

This is the top of the flower, not very wide at all.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

Wine, Chocolates and Cards

Life is good when you can do all the things you love with people you love and all in one evening! There's always a down side, though, Steve won. Again! What do we play you ask? OH SHIT! What have we been playing with Kim and Mike for over thirty years and have the score books to prove it? You guessed it, OH SHIT! And what goes best with this particular card game? Chocolates and wine or chocolates and beer or chocolates and gin and tonic or chocolates and mai tai's or chocolates and margaritas! Are you all seeing a trend here? We never had dinner last night but who needs it!

Question:

I know, I know, you are all thinking "poor Steve" what the hell is that on his plate? PAPER PLATE, at that! It was one of those days when we had a late lunch, I wasn't hungry (neither was he, but he doesn't like going to bed without dinner). It's 7:30 p.m., what would you do? So, I went to the pantry pulled out an Indian "minute meal in a box" (foil pouch, actually). I realize the presentation would have been better on a real plate, but that wasn't my mood! As I was dishing his dinner out onto the plate I started to cackle and couldn't stop, it's lucky I had an empty bladder. His meal, the one that took exactly one minute to heat up just like the package promised, looked like something a burro with a bad case of the runs had left behind! Now, you all know Steve and know that he will eat anything put in front of him! This was the ultimate challenge and he passed! He ate it and even said he would have it again!