La-Jan: 2014

Thanksgiving and more!

By LA-jan - November 28, 2014

So, this is going to be Thanksgiving and a little more

that I had on my camera

and thought I'd share.

Happy Thanksgiving and I hope yours was!

We spent the day at Maureen's with Terry's family.

We brought apple pie and green beans and

got there early to help Maureen.

Terry got his apron on and right away set to work in his environment-The Kitchen!

It got a little crazy in there with Colleen making the potatoes, Terry and his beans,
and Maureen and her squash, all at once in her, shall we say, space challenged
kitchen. At the same time, I was starting the gravy and trying to carve the bird!

sorry, this is the only pic, my horrible "selfie" !

Meanwhile, Rita inspected the varietals offered, after she had roasted the turkey
to perfection!

Dorothy, if I'm not mistaken, I believe Maureen has your china pattern!

It all turned out amazing and dinner was served!

Great food, wonderful company!

We had a lovely night!

Before I go, I just wanted to include a few pictures of Terry's
accomplishments with his culinary arts!

Bon Appetit
!

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Mr Stewart I hear you!!!

By LA-jan - November 15, 2014

Ran across this tweet online of Patrick Stewart's frustration with

setting up his TWC.

Mr. Stewart, only 36 hrs????

I've been trying to set mine up for over a month!

I've spent over 36 hours alone on the

phone,

"chatting" with their "solutions team" on the internet

in the stores

with their "escalation team"'

and with the technicians in my home!

(who have come and couldn't do a single thing

because the so-called "supervisor" didn't order the right

equipment on the truck)

Frankly, Mr Stewart,

you just gotta laugh at their extreme incompetence.

And their excuses.

I could never in my wildest dream come up

with their explanations for their B@#$S**#@!

(such as "that internet speed you have is

not available at your address"

and "you do not qualify for the package you

want because you already have that package we

installed that you didn't want"!)

Thanks for the giggle, Mr. Stewart.

Last night, Mr. Stewart tweeted the following lament, which demands to be read aloud in his deep British timber:

So far, over 600 people have retweeted it, so clearly Mr. Stewart’s frustration with the cable service has struck a chord.

Really??

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October's been busy!

By LA-jan - October 26, 2014

October has been busy and Halloween hasn't even officially arrived!

The prep work for the Halloween party has been brutal!

There is the tasting:

After all, we don't want any surprises or misses at the event
so we must be diligent

And on and on it went

It was hard work testing out recipes till we found the right one!

And that's not all, there was more

And that is not even the event planning
Jeesh, it was grueling work
Testing out party strategies to see what would work
We started with scoping out the latest . . .
Joe's 30th birthday bash
complete with beer tasting!

which included more merciless tasting trials

But, we kept on and on working till all hours

No task too difficult

There was just no end to our diligence in working
to find the secret to the perfect event!

And so on we worked, ever closer to the masquerade event
setting the scene

no detail left untouched, down to the changing of the artwork on the walls

keep to the theme of the Masquerade!

We set the stage

Ready or not, the guests began to arrive!

The masks were incredible, the costumes magnificent!

Whoops! Caught Terry without his mask!
But, Maureen caught it!

And we had winners!
The Champagne tasting winners were Bill and Jill
with a real French Champagne!
We do have excellent tasters with such distinguishing taste!

and the bottle

My ballot winner, too!

And the Costume prizes for
Most Unique
Most Mysterious
Most Extravagant
and
the Funniest!

It was a most outstanding group of Masqueraders!

Happy Halloween to all!

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The Project! Post # 2 San Clemente

By LA-jan - September 05, 2014

The Project!

Every summer we vacation at San Clemente.

One year, believe it or not, it rained alot in So. Cal!

We had water damage. Water got into the house

and went into 3 areas of the house and we weren't there!

The next spring we had to jack up the house and regrade the

entire lot. Lots of work!

Mostly we had work on the structure done and outside grading that required a

new fence and landscaping. New outside painting.

That sort of thing.
We changed the outside from that to this.

We then moved inside.

The next year we painted all but the last bedroom (with the most damage)

but, it waited ever so patiently for us!

Finally, doors wouldn't close, patched cracks whined for us.

It begged for help.

We put it off another year.

This time we approached "the project"!

Terry prepped.

Taylor and I moved all the furniture to the living room.
We had to patch a few holes and found this foam expander that worked great
and a fun project (there in the foreground) that turned into a "brain" that I think I'll use for
a Halloween prop!

Then, Taylor got busy on the trim

Ham!!

I got busy on the ceiling and walls.

Oh, and the guys put up this "cool" ceiling fan, that is absolutely wonderful on
those hot summer nights!

Taylor and I also had to scrape down the doors that were somewhat warped and
wouldn't open and close properly. We scraped until they fit perfectly!!

And Terry put new knobs on that look great! So nice to have that doors that open and shut now!!

Taylor, with his expert spraying ability, got all the little knobs and screws to match!

We even got a light installed over the dining room table and could finally get the lamp off
the table!!

And I can't believe I didn't get a picture of it!

Well, a future post!

San Clemente we'll see you again!