San Diego and my birthday

 

December has been a cold month for me, although it's supposed to warm up for the Holidays.  Lizzie had several trips to San Diego, and we also went there for my birthday, which was the same day that she read her poem at The Star of India. It was a very nice day.

Casa Guadalajara for birthday lunch

Chicken fajitas and mango Margarita

Singing Las Mananitas

After lunch we drove around Old Town and bought a slice of cake, then we went to our Hotel, the Windham by the Bay

View from the window

Star of India

Lizzie recited the beautiful poem

I spent some time in the cabin reading and having a snack

I have been a little remiss doing our challenge drawings, I'm very rusty! I will do some in PSP with the themes, until next year after I practice. Both girls doing great with their drawings!  :)

November Recap

 Here we are at the end of another month. The girls have done a good job writing quite often during this month, I tried but didn't post much, even though I had plenty of time to write. Just lazy. Like Lulu

The girls got back from Greece and Sandy flew back to SLC on November 1st.

Lizzie went to LM Theater, and the next day I went to my podiatrist, and we had lunch at A'Roma

November 6 was DST and I was off all week because of it, plus we got RAIN! and it was chilly. Saturday the 12th we had a very nice linner at Kentro, a Greek Restaurant. Very good.

I had avgolemono soup and souvlaki with wild rice and tzatsiki

On the 17th we went to San Juan Capistrano to see the Mission. I last went there 2 years ago with Norbert, Lizzie had never been there. It's a lovely place to walk around and learn about the history of the California Missions, San Juan Capistrano was founded by the Spanish in 1776, when St. Junípero Serra established this Mission.

The swallows go back to the Mission every March 9th

The main altar, made in Barcelona

Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano 

         We had lunch at the lovely patio of L'Hirondelle,  right across the Mission

Saturday the 19th, was Lizzie's 51st birthday. She likes to hike, so I got her some hiking shoes and a walking stick, then we went to the Cedar Creek Restaurant for dinner

Happy Birthday Lizzie

My Monte Cristo, delicious!

L had a Dr appointment on the 22nd, and the next day we went to Marshall for our Pre Christmas shopping spree. That was fun.

 

November 24th was Thanksgiving. We don't celebrate traditional Thanksgiving very much (last year we had fish tacos) but for some reason I felt like having turkey, so we went to Black Angus. I had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, sweet potatoes, garlic broccoli, cheesy bread and pumpkin pie.

On Saturday we went to Regional Park with Lulu for a nice walk, it was a lovely day.

I want to go see the sunset and have dinner at Huntington Beach today, but it's been cloudy and cold.

BOOKS I'VE READ THIS MONTH

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED THIS MONTH

 

 

Chilly Weather

Fall weather is definitely here. After a very hot Summer is nice to have cooler weather, but it seems like one day we were in the 90s and the next day it was in the 60s. There was not a lot of transition.

And finally, in the second week of November, we got 3 days of pretty heavy rain, and we needed it!

It was so nice and cozy to sit down with a book and watch the rain fall. It was soup weather. Lulu doesn't enjoy going out in the rain too much and likes taking long naps, at night she wears a little sweater or nightwear and she loves it. 

This time of the year I'd like to see the trees changing colors, but there's not a lot of them around here. Lizzie and I drove around and we saw some nice trees with beautiful colored leaves in the Hillsborough area. I liked them, and I think is one of the prettiest areas of this town.

October Recap

 

The main events in October were Lizzie and Sandy's  trip to Greece  and Halloween.

Lizzie went to San Diego the first weekend of October. I had an appointment with Dr. Kim about some skin condition.  Lizzie had her hair trimmed at Anthony's. We went shopping, and had dinner out a couple of times.

                                                         Lulu turned 11 on October 18 :) 

Sandy flew down from SLC October 17, and they left the next day via Frankfurt to Greece.

They stayed in Athens for a couple of days, then flew to Chania in Crete for 8 days and enjoyed a painting retreat.  They really had a wonderful time! on the 29th they flew to Munich for a couple of says (they didn't enjoy it as much as they did Greece) and they flew back to the US on Halloween!

                                                           Lots of pictures on IG and FB. 

While they were gone, I didn't do a lot, went to Porto's cooked a lot at home, took Lulu for walks, and Decorated the mantle for Halloween. Went shopping, to the Library, and did some painting.

Sandy left November 1, back to Salt Lake City.

MOVIES I WATCHED IN OCTOBER

BOOKS I'VE READ IN OCTOBER

Tag day 10

 BOOOO!

Porto's and Tag day 9

 

Last night it was pretty chilly and I woke up with a stuffy nose and cough. I took some Alka Seltzer Plus, fed Lulu, took her outside to do her business, and didn't feel like getting back to bed. So, instead, I decided to go to Porto's and use the $10 credit they gave me.

I got there at about 10M and there was a long line all the way to the parking lot. I went right to the entrance and told the person there that I came to get a credit (they were only letting a few at a time inside) but she told me to go right to the bakery where they have the cakes and tell them about the credit. They asked for my phone and said yes we have you down for a $10 credit, he asked me what I wanted, and I had a little list made (good thinking on my part) he rang them and then deducted my credit. This is what I ordered: 2 potato balls spiced, 2 meat pies, 2 cheese pastries, 2 chocolate twists, 1 churro croissant, 1 slice of chocolate cake, 1 mango ball, and 1 refugiado. He said he'd go fill the order right away. He came back with two big bags and I said thank you and left, sort of surprised by the large bags. When I came home and checked what I got, I found out I got everything I ordered PLUS double potato balls, double meat pies and double cheese pastries AND a dulce de leche roll.

It was so large I cut it in half and gave half to Amy :)

I have enough food for the week!!!

Thanks Portos, great service

2 more Halloween tags

 A scary one and a cute one

Counting down to Halloween

 I will display a "Halloween tag" every day til Halloween

Safe trips! Enjoy your vacation

 

Libelula

 Just a pretty dragonfly tag

SEPTEMBER RECAP

 

Fall Mood

Another hot month!

The 2 main happenings in September were the death of Queen Elizabeth at 96 years old on September 8. and her funeral September 19 (I watched everything, the pomp, the ceremony, the drama. May she RIP.

The other big happening was the terrible Hurricane Ian on September 27th, which decimated some Florida coastal towns and was felt by most areas of Florida, and coastal Georgia. It will be a long time before they recover.

Here at home, things were pretty good, but for the heat.  

Lizzie went to Pasadena to see Jeff in concert on 9/8.    I got my hair cut and color, no more blonde, back to light brown.   9/13, Lizzie went to SD today for the weekend :)     Mia turned 68 and is feeling better.    We went to eat out a few times and to Porto's a couple of times.   On 9/9 Lizzie had the flu and shingles shot, and I had a flu shot, Sandy had her flu and  Covid booster on 9/30.   Lulu had a nice bath.   I had a severe allergy attack on 9/23 and was feeling sick for a couple of days.  The planet Jupiter was the closest to the Earth and it was nice to see it so bright in the night sky.  T has a girlfriend :)    9/21 First day of Fall.

The girls are very much looking forward to the trip to Greece in October!!!

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN SEPTEMBER

BOOKS I'VE READ IN SEPTEMBER

WELCOME OCTOBER