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Last summer my girlfriend Carol got her grandaughter an inflatable pool to play in while she was visiting from the Sacramento area. It reminded me of when our kids were little and all the time they would spend in the back yard in their pool and the sprinklers. They used to also have some awesome [...]

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I found a wonderful little surprise in my garden yesterday! I dutifully planted the perennial sweet peas last year that my girlfriend Carol gave me from her Mission Viejo garden. They’ve been making a slow progress ever since, climbing and winding up the white arbor we have in the corner garden, clinging to the red [...]

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We always have a nice time when our youngest son Matt comes down from his place for a visit. Being the amateur photographer buff that I am (which doesn’t compare at all to the professional photographer that Matt is) I snapped a few pictures of him while we sat on the patio. He is most [...]

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Another days work at my girlfriend Jill’s school, with the help of good friends Terry and Karen, and much was accomplished. Blue felt bulletin boards with colorful borders, more moving of furniture, cleaning out bookshelves, portable storage cabinets and filling black plastic bags full of trash made us feel as if we’d accomplished a lot. [...]

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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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Our recent heat has taken it’s toll on our garden, mostly with the hydrangeas which are my favorite large tubular creamy blooms. The biggest is in our

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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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