From More Pictures In The Blog No, this is not a photo of how I expect to feel tomorrow morning. In my twisted mind here sits a perfect example of how the year 2011 looks on the afternoon of December 31. Dried and shrivelled. All the dreams have been dreamt, the goals realized or not, the cries…
Month: December 2011
Please Forgive Me. I Need To Brag A Bit
I mentioned the good weather coming our way the other day; now, if you don’t mind I’d like to brag a bit. Not about the good weather, rather the great weather. At 6am this morning it was about 8 degrees (high 40’s). Now at 1pm it’s about 24 (high 70’s) in the shade and it…
Backward Glancing and Navel Gazing
We better get busy. In just a couple of days we’ll be needing to put an extra 2 on our keyboards. Instead of being 2011, suddenly it will be 2012. I, like everyone else has spent some time looking back at 2011. I even wrote a rather lengthly piece about all the highlights and low…
Bed Wetting
I understand that this is not the most tasteful of topics to dicuss openly, but then when I think about it, I’ve been called a lot of things over the years but I don’t remember ever being called “tasteful.” So here goes: I’m happy to announce that neither Marilyn or I wet the bed anymore….
Dog Beach, Christmas Day
Christmas was a beautful day here in southern California, the perfect day to go to the beach. For sure we’re going to take the dogs so we google “dog beach near Oceanside” . We make our choice, plug the address into the GPS and we are off. We pass Lawrence Welk Way, Bing Crosby Drive and soon…
Thank You SANTA
Look what Santa brought the Vanstones. Wow, what a surprise! We Love it. Thanks again Santa, you are way cool! It was way back last summer when Marilyn started her campaign with Santa for a Keurig coffee maker and I resisted right from the start. My arguments of bad for the enviroment and too expensive at…
Friends And Neighbors
I first met Dan and Carol one day at work at Sicard RV at least 6 ot 7 years ago. They had sold their boat and were looking for an RV to travel around a bit. I showed them the different styles of RV’s we offered and during the conversation, mentioned that Marilyn and I had…
The Merc
Last night friends Chuck and Anna (more about them later) took us to a Thursday night Jazz Club in Old Town Temecula called The Merc for an evening of “mainline, straight ahead jazz” and we had a great time. Chuck had asked us a week or so ago if we liked Jazz and we both…
Watching Paint Dry XXXXII
We have a new painting drying in our basement. What you are seeing is Marilyn’s take on the Snoopy on the dog house thing that we all grew up with. Here he’s out on the lawn and maybe weathered a bit from the original but it still gets my memory machine going. How about you?