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At least it felt that way on our last visit to a local favorite resturant, Souplantion. Given it was a Saturday night, 6:30pm to be exact. We’d had a long day working in the yard and had decided when we were done that we’d treat ourselves to the luxury of overeating to the point of [...]

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I’m all about the frosting when it comes to cake/cupcakes. That’s the part of this dessert that really floats my boat. So when my girlfriend Eva told me about this store, Frostings Cupcakes on El Toro road I knew I had to check it out for myself. I went on line to see exactly where [...]

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When Valerie and her dad John were here last month he took us out to a great local sushi resturant, Oami, that a good friend of mine referred me to. Of the 2 chef’s who were working that night, this was the only one who allowed me to take his photo. John took this photo [...]

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Our good friends, the Bennets hosted a 4h of July bbq at their house and invited Jerry and I along with Terry and Karen. The feast consisted of dogs

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This was the last evening Pauline would be here, so we had a few friends over to say hello, catch up on old times, and drink a little wine. Pauline knew Jill, lower left, when she lived here in Mission Viejo. Karen, lower right, was a new friend she met through us last year when [...]

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The trip to Torrance to visit good friends Beth, Steve, and assorted family members was fun as always. While we had certain tasks we wanted to accomplish, most of them require purchases, and as always lots of laughter. There are many things I love about these long time friends: their generosity, their kindness, their compassion, [...]

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Nothing makes me want to blog more than not being able to include photos with my random probably boring weekly news. My sweet husband is working on this recent problem with miniscule inching closer results. Questions to the web host resulted in answers that weren’t surprising: the problem isn’t on their end. Searches on the word press [...]

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Everyone loves an after Christmas sale, but I can honestly say I’ve never been to one quite like this. I initally went to Target to pick up a few things, thinking I would be gone for an hour to an hour and a half at the most. I ended up being gone for almost 3 [...]

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