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Surprise suprise! That’s what Jerry and I thought when the 5.4 earthquake came rolling through our town today. I was at my girlfriend Jill’s house sitting on the floor and couldn’t believe how long it lasted. It came on strong with a pause. I watched my girlfriends floor, window, and door wave like an ocean! [...]

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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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Despite a bad beginning and a busy day at Disneyland Pauline and I had a nice time on our outing to Disneyland. You can see here from the photo I took while we waited in line for the Haunted Mansion that Disneyland was really crowded. I hadn’t seen it like this for a long time [...]

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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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Good friends Jill, Karen and I recently went down to San Juan Capistrano to wander around the shops, the Mission and newly finished Mission Basilica Church at San Juan Capistrano. On their way over to the Mission Patty posed in front of the Starbucks window. The Mission now has a big wall around it, unlike [...]

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When I was over visiting Matthew the other day I also was enjoying the enthusiastic and loving dog Koosh. She is Matt’s landlords dog, and loves company. Her white bearded face is full of expression even when she is just standing still, which is usually never. I wanted a photo of her with me which [...]

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She was a fellow traveler, a partner and a friend. She had large shoulders to comfort me, and she knew the language of arthritis pain that we shared so well. Irene B. mother of Steve B. and mother in law of Jill B. passed away late last night. She would have been 87 years old [...]

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Just for your enjoyment I’ve added several new updates, which you will find below as well as a new Disneyland post under my Disneyland pages dated 2-27-2008, so be sure and read all about it, enjoy and leave a comment!

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Just looking at the pictures of pictures taken on our recent visit to Disneyland with son Matthew and friend Terry makes me sad to think we might not renew our passes come later this year due to finances. While Disneyland doesn’t “hold the magic” as much for Jerry, it really makes my inner soul sing [...]

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