We have a family tradition of going to church Sunday morning followed by going out to breakfast/brunch.When you have a birthday, you get to choose the restaurant-anyone, your favorite. And you choose anything on the menu.Of course, when the kids were kids, this was a very big deal. They felt like a King.Sean had a bithday in Sept. However, his choice was the...

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I was just getting ready to post and WOW!! What was that?? Oh yeah, the space shuttle just landed at Edwards Air Force Base and broke the sound barrier! Cool, everyone in So. Cal. was just reminded of that! ...

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Here's Maureen and Terry working on the gravy. Now this gravy has a 20+ year history of being made ever so carefully by Pat. Over the years, Maureen and I stood by year after year after year as we were so studiously taught the art of gravy making. This is the "culinary masterpiece" of the Holiday dinner. We were taking it on ourselves!!...

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!! ...

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LA got rain! Over the last 24 hours we got wet in the amount of about 2 inches of rain. That kind of rain got 1500 people evacuated and flash flood warning to go out all over the place! Thankfully, we survivied without mud slides and houses going down hillsides. So. Cal. just doesn't do well with Weather! I enjoyed it, might even...

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Sunday I tagged along on Taylor's photo shoot. We had just had brunch nearby and he planned on the shoot because of the cool telephone booths.Terry was the subject and had brought along his coat and hat for the shoot. There was a technical aspect, but my take was "old time" black and white.Taylor set up and Terry got into place. There is...

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Well, thanks to the strong voters of California we now have honest to goodness cage free eggs.We mean business when we put a proposition on the ballot so our chickens can stretch their legs!! Now, we can truly feel good about ourselves when we eat our cage free omelets! ...

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We So Cal inhabitants are enjoying another round of Santa Ana winds. The weather is hot and dry and windy. With that you just know a fire is imminent. Santa Barbara was already burning, as was Corona. Last night, closer to home, Sylmar and Granada Hills went up in flames. The air is thick, the smell of burning is strong. The full moon...

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Realizing all 3 of them had the Veterans Holiday off, the downed gutter was a priority.Even my work called and asked me to switch days and so I was off too.Early, the work began with all three of them on the roof getting acclimated to the height.In no time at all the real work began in earnest.You can see all the teaching going...

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Sean made the college newspaper with his senior design project: The Linbot. The picture shows him in between 2 other engineering students. He is at school mostly 6-7 days a week now 9-12 hrs a day with classes and the project. This is his group design and he's also got a solo project I haven't seen yet. Check it out here in the...

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Oops, this just won't do! It was windy the other night and we had a little rain. Was I surprised to see this as I drove home from work! Taylor and Terry were trying to fix it yesterday, but didn't have the right screws or something. The wind was still blowing and Taylor had trouble keeping himself on the top roof, so the...

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With so much talk of transitions in the news today I am facing one of my own.Taylor is no longer a teenager. He turned 20 yesterday and my feeling are conflicted. Although, this is not a dramatic change in reality, it is an end to an era. He has not been a teenager in many respects for a couple years now. But, today,...

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I went out to the store to pick up some things and decided to buy a newpaper. There was a few other people waiting behind me to buy a paper at the machine. I went into the store and the first thing I hear is someone asking "where are your newpapapers?". Then, I see a few more shoppers with newpapers.I get out to...

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You probably can't see, but I was the 38th voter, Sean the 86th, Taylor was the 88th, and Terry the 203rd voter in our little garage precinct. No lines, I think we had about 10 people when I was there this morning. It was about 5 doors down the street from us. By the way, did anyone get their Starbucks coffee?? Taylor got...

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I've never had this happen breaking in new walking shoes. Fifteen years of walking and replacing shoes and I'm stumped. Old shoes on the left, new shoes on the right; I keep the old ones in case the new ones don't work out. I've had that happen and out they go or to the garden or painting shoe. Never had a pair like...

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