Haircut

Not for me, for Lulu. Her face was very fuzzy and her hair was starting to be curl free, so off she went to get all dolled up.
Here she is sitting in her favorite spot.

Lizzie came over last night and today she took Marvin to dialysis and then she and I went to lunch to a new place she found online. It's called Franco Trattoria, in uptown Whittier . The owner is Italian and his wife is Whittier born but second generation italian. It was good, the bruschetta was very tasty. I had an all italian cold cuts panini, very tasty, Lizzie had some fettucini with sausage and broccoli.

 

For dinner, I made macarrones, like my mother used to make, only mine are not as good. But it was OK.

 

Here's hoping you allk have a good weekend :)

Back to the beach

Yesterday after taking Marvin to dialysis, I drove to Long Beach to meet Norbert for lunch.

We met at Acapulco which is a Restaurant we go to often because is easy to go from Bellflower, and once in a while I like to go back to the beach. It had been a while since I was in Long Beach.

We had a nice lunch,  I had a Margarita and we had all you can eat combos (special on Thursdays). I had a chile relleno, 2 taquitos with guacamole, a 2 tacos one soft and one hard, with rice and beans. He had a chile relleno, 2 tamales, 1 taco and 2 enchiladas. I couldn't finish my plate, I was totally stuffed, but he had another taco and another chile relleno. On top of that we had 3 baskets of chips and (6) salsas.

He talked and talked about his trips to Hungary and Croatia and France. And his trip to Lake Powell where he relaxed and fished. He gave me some trout and bass he had caught for Marvin. he will have them for dinner tonight.

After lunch we went for a drive to Long Beach and took a couple of pictures. One of them is in FB in my profile, here's another one

It was a nice day.





 



November

I'm also going to try to write a little every day this month. I missed the first day by 15 minutes but I hope it will still count.

I will just send the list of books I read in October. Sandy I think you might like the last book in the list. Is about food, cooking gaining and losing weight, etc. Plus recipes and a nice story. I actually enjoyed all the books I read this month. You may notice one of my favorites, Katie Fforde :)

Elizabeth Young – A girl’s best friend

Elizabeth Buchan - Everything She Thought She Wanted

Wendy Max - Magnolia Wednesdays

Katie Fforde - Wild Designs

Carol Higgins Clark - Gypped

Elizabeth Young - Asking for Trouble

Candace Bushnell - Summer and the City

Stacey Ballis - Good Enough to Eat

 

 

Halloween is coming!

It's almost the end of October, and it's going out with a big wallop in the East Coast. Hurricane Sandy is called the perfect storm. With a name like Sandy how could it not be perfect? :)

October has been a pretty good month, the weather has been great in the 70's mainly. Sandy's knee surgery went well, Marvin has been feeling pretty good most of the time, I had my 2 crowns (grr dentists!) and Lizzie had a nice vacation.

We had the tree trimmers come and work on the 2 trees on the back, unfortunately they had to destroy the squirrel's nest. Oh well!

We have had Dewey and Mary come to visit with the lil poodle Petey. It is funny how she treats him like a baby, she even takes him for a walk while holding him up in her arms. He's a bad tempered puppy, growling and trying to bite anybody coming close to him, especially Lulu, that really only wants to play.

growling

 

Finally Lulu got tired and ran after him, it was funny!

here they are friends playing together :)

 

Have a Happy Halloween

 



 





The Cotswolds

There is a place in the world that I would dearly like to see. The Cotswolds in England.

I have reading books by an English author called Katie Fforde. Her books are fun and easy to read, girl's lit basically, but I like that her characters are everyday women. The stories are nice and everything always ends the way you'd like them to end.

The author lives in The Cotswolds, and  her books take place in that area of England, and the way she depicts them I got interested in seeing pictures and learning about the history. It is located in the lower part of the Southwest of England, and it is beautiful.

If you want to learn more about it, here's a link :)
http://www.cotswolds.info/



Squirrels and a pub story

We've been having a constant visitor in our garden, a squirrel. I have taken several pictures of him climbing on the bird feeder, it seems like he jumps from the garage roof.



 I decided to move the feeder and put it over by the fountain.
Today we were very entertained with the squirrel antics, trying to find out how he could get to the new feeder place. He climbed on the house roof, moved over to the pergola, tried to jump to the feeder, almost fell on the fountain, etc. He was not able to get to it but it was very amusing to watch.
I felt  for him for trying so hard, and I put some food in the small bird fountain. Soo he found it and ate happily. Then another squirrel came in, and so it went. Lulu was really aggravated watching all the wildlife roaming around her garden!

Afterwards Lizzie, Marvin and I went out to eat at Maggie's Pub.

(don't know why the double picture)

Marvin was feeling  good and we were looking forward to a nice fish dinner. After we were seated, I realized that my chair was all wet and my pants  got soaked. It had been raining and the waitress said the roof might have leaked. She

offered to change us to a different table but I just changed my seat and was a little uncomfortable. But the fish was very good.

When we got he bill, I went to the hostess and explained the problem with the water, and we got a discount on our meal. She was very nice about it, and then she asked me if I was a teacher, I said yes. She asked if I worked at Jersey, I said yes, and then she said you were my Kindergarten teacher! then her sister who is a waitress there came over and she said hi Mrs. Wann :)

 

All in all it was a pleasant day.

 

Spring cleaning in the Fall

Now that the weather has cooled down a little bit, I have got a burst of energy and started cleaning out the garage, organizing and getting rid of lots of stuff. Some things I hate to get rid of, but I cannot use them or need them anymore, so off they go to Goodwill.

Norbert came over Saturday and cleaned the Jacuzzi, and helped me move some heavy boxes, he also swept the garage and organized some wood stuff. We went to have lunch at El Torito, it was very good. He got back from 2 weeks in Lake Powell and now is off for 2 more weeks on a trip with his sister. He said it's going to be an all Nevada trip.

When I work in the garage, Marvin comes out sometimes and  l moves the sprinklers around and also helps tearing off  emptycardboard boxes so we can get rid of them more easily. Of course Lulu is out there as well getting in trouble.

Another thing I'm doing this month, is I try to do a little more cooking, different stuff. Marvin has been planning the menu for a week, and I go buy groceries and cook. Maybe you have seen the pictures I am posting in Facebook.

I have been playing games in the computer, my favorites, besides the ones I play with the girls, are the match games and hidden objects games. I have also been watching a lot of "older" movies. Yesterday I watched "A Little Romance" now I am getting ready to watch "Roman Holidays".

And so it goes...  :)