Alan woke me up

I got home at 2:00 am from Kelly's retirement and Popo's 70th Birthday party. So I was going to sleep in for a few hours but Alan called at 7:30 am so we went on SKYPE for a hour and Alan printed out all of the paperwork and luggage tags for our cruise. Great it s done. It is about eleven days until we head for our cruise. This is a few pictures of last nights party.

Up early as usual

Today I am posting early as this will be a long day. This morning I did some pantry arranging and had cold cereal with banana for breakfast. I will be taking a shower and get ready for the trip to L.A. to celebrate Kelly's Retirement and Popo's 70 Birthday. Alden teaches this morning and he will pick me up between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm. This is a surprise for Kelly and Popo. I hope to take pictures which I will post tomorrow.

Beautiful day

For breakfast I made oat meal with raisins, for lunch was chicken strips, carrots, broccoli  and left over garlic mashed potatoes. for dinner was peanut butter and jelly sandwich and celery stick stuffed with cream cheese desert was two fig cookies. Today we got our hair cut and went to play cards.

Looks like I didn't blog

Yes I don't know what happened may be I forgot to post. O well here we go. For breakfast I fixed waffles with blueberries and whipped cream. So Good. At 8:30 we went to Wells Fargo and Wal-Mart. Wells Fargo said it would cost $35.00 to stop a check which I made out to the Church which never got cashed, I checked with the Church and they don't have record of the check. Don't know what happened. May be it went in the trash. The amount was $110.00 so I will just hope someone did not get it. I put it in the offering plate on June 2 and this is June 26.

Something today

This morning we went to ceramics I worked on a Christmas house. At 1:00 pm we went to play Hand and Foot. there was five of us. Rosalee left after three games as it is hard for her to sit very long after she had her knee replacement.

Another slow day

This morning I made cream of wheat with raisins and a banana for breakfast. I did the washing this morning. For lunch I made broccoli, fish sticks and potato salad. We had a ice cream cone for afternoon snack. Dinner was cream noodle soup. This is a better picture of my gardenia.

friday

This is a very slow day. Not doing very much to talk about. The weather is in the high seventies. Had cold cereal with banana for breakfast. For lunch potato salad, baked beans and chicken strips. For dinner vegetable soup and crackers, two fig cookies for desert.

Quite windy

Down at the club it was very windy today. This morning we went to Cost-Co to purchase gas and a few groceries. We will very appreciate when the time will be for Alden to help with shopping as we feel the age creeping up on us. This afternoon we went to the club to play cards, there was five of us so we did not play partners and I was the winner. Today I took a picture of my gardenia it is getting a lot of flowers on it. The picture did not turn out very good.

A Great Day

Yes a great day, the weather is great high 70's. This afternoon Hsing came over to play Rummy-Q with us. At noon the lady who is the head of Area 2 came to talk to us about the meeting and about doing the trimming of the bushes. She is reporting it to ASPM so they can get their act together and do things right. They are to come next week to trim our bushes. We will see if it gets done. My Gardenia bush is loaded with flowers and buds this year. Last year there was no flowers on it. That is my favorite as I had a beautiful Gardenia next to the front door down in Chula Vista. I will take a picture of mine tomorrow.

Area 2

This morning we had a waffle with blueberries for breakfast. lunch was a baked potato, carrots, spinach and chicken strips. For snack was yogurt with blueberries. For dinner was chicken vegetable soup. Tom said the meeting yesterday was at 10:00 am not 7:00 pm which was on the mail notice which I received. Tom will check it out.

Overcast today

This morning we went to ceramics and my cookie jar is finished. At 1:00 pm we went to cards, Karol and I were the big winners. This evening we went to the club for a meeting for area #2. Well we waited until after 7:00 pm and no one showed up so we went home. I will keep after them to trim the bushes, they said it will be done in June so we will see.

Great Sunday

Today it is overcast most of the day.This morning we went to Church and I drove in and out of Denny's as the parking was loaded. We went to IHOP and we shared a spinach and mushroom omelet with hash browns. It was so large and tasty we brought home two boxes to go and we finished it for our evening meal.

June half gone

How time flies and here it is almost time for our vacation. I am hoping Alan can get the documents printed out as my mind is not working right for it. Maybe I will need Gina to help if Alan can't get it. Today was a day spent icing my shoulder and rubbing with Ben-guy you know old age pain.

Not much

There is not much to talk about today. This morning we went to ceramics and I worked on a small Christmas project. Reading and Rummy-Q and a few puzzles on the computer.

A great day

This is a great day as the weather is so nice. I vacuumed the floor and cleaned the kitchen and dining room floor. I called ASPM again to have the bushed trimmed, their answer was it would be done this month June. Well we will see. The bush along the walkway to the front door is so we have to walk on the grass or brush against the bush. Monday I will go to the meeting and report this. Even this is hard for me as I don't hear that well. I just received the e-mail from Debbie and she said her mother is in bad shape, I am sorry to hear that.

Some cooler

This morning I got up before 6:00 am I fixed left over rice with cinnamon and raisins for breakfast. I guess I will not have a problem with the time change when we go to the east coast as I am ready to get up at 4 or 5 o'clock. Well we will see. After breakfast we went out and dry cleaned the car as it was really dirty from the rain. The temperature today was some cooler. I am sitting at my computer with the window open and it is chilly
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Shopping at Wal-Mart

This morning I got up at 6:00 am and we had yogurt for breakfast then we left at 6:35 am to go shopping. We wanted to do it before it got hot. We were home before 8:00 am. It was a couple degrees cooler today. The rest of the week will be in the 70's. I purchased two more plug in's for the the Cruise, one for Alan's cabin and one for Alden's cabin. Now we can keep our i-phones charged for more pictures.

What a day

We went to ceramics this morning and I finished my cookie jar so now it has to get fired. This afternoon we went to cards and when I went to the car the temp. was 102 degrees in the sun. We got home and it was 98 outside and 78 in the house so we turned the dinning room fan on and it was comfortable. No AC. I just received a call from Mary and she said Mariana fell and broke her right arm and she will be coming back to R.B. soon. Rosalee will be having a gallbladder surgery soon.

Woo 94 degrees

Can you believe that? How the weather has changed. I hope it doesn't get as hot as it did last year July 6 and 7. But we are still comfortable, no air condition. I see the neighbors do have the air condition on. We went to church and the orchestra played today. Then we had breakfast at Denny's.

Getting warmer

Yes the days are getting warmer but great weather. This morning I did the washing. Not much going on today. I am trying to see if I can get the bushes trimmed as they are getting so over grown. We are under a new company and I call them three weeks ago and they said the next week they would have some one out to do it, but there is no show. I will call again next week and see what is up.

Friday

Today is a great day. We went to ceramics and I am still working on the cookie jar. There is a lot of close working on this project I hope I will have it done next week. I made spaghetti and meat balls for lunch and soup with bits of broccoli for dinner. We are trying to eat light in the evening so we sleep better.

A warm day

Yes it is another warm day but very comfortable. It reached 79 in the house with the front door open. This morning we did some work in the sun room. As we removed some things and I took pictures of things we want to get rid of I need to send pictures of "The Manger scene" also the counter top oven. I will post on this blog.

A warm day

Today it was in the 80's, the warmest day for a long time. Breakfast was a waffle with blueberries and a half tangerine. Lunch was chicken salad on spinach and a boiled egg. Dinner was stew with rice. The day was spent reading and relaxing and Rummy Q.

James lost

Yes James finally lost to a girl named Emma. James didn't get the two Daily Doubles in the double jeopardy but Emma got them. This evening Alden called and the Retirement party went well and he was surprised. He said there was about fifty people who showed up. I didn't go as I did not want to drive down there and I don't hear well when there a lot of noise so I am sending him a card tomorrow.

Monday

When I opened the blind I noticed that we had rain last night. For breakfast I made oat meal with raisins and one half banana. We went to ceramics this morning. I worked on my cookie jar. For lunch we had fish, sweet potatoes and green salad. At 1:00 pm we went to play cards. For dinner we had tomato soup and one half grilled cheese sandwich and two fig cookies.

Sunday

This morning we went to church,after church we were on our way to Denny's but were detoured as there was a fair in the middle of the street so we ended up at IHOP. This evening Chad and Maria came for a visit.

Saturday

It has been overcast most of the day. Today is Ethel's day for washing. Breakfast was cold cereal, one half banana and hot water. Lunch chicken strips, sweet potatoes, green salad and yogurt. afternoon snack was three dates and chocolate bark. Dinner chicken soup, crackers and two fig cookies. Drinking water off and on all day. Yes Lovely you wanted to know the meal report.