A day at the beach

A beautiful sunny warm day at the beach in Southern California, the ocean, the waves, the sounds…

I’ve been waiting to get my feet wet and enjoy the calming feeling of the ocean

The waves are getting stronger, I’m getting wet!

Uh Oh!!!! I’m losing my balance!!!!

And down I go!

Even though I’m right by the sea side, there’s some deep spots and is hard to get up J

HELP!!!

Stop laughing, stop taking pictures and help lol

I’m all wet, I’m laughing, this was fun!

Trees

I have two big trees in my backyard. Every 2-3 years Marvin hired a tree trimmer and he came with a couple other guys and trimmed the trees. I am not sure how much they charged for it, although I think it was $450-500, but not sure.

Last year the tree trimmer came to see if we wanted them trimmed, at the time Marvin was not feeling well, so I told them not yet. They kept on coming to ask about the trees, my answer was always the same. Marvin thought maybe they should go ahead and do it, but there were too many health problems going on and I said to wait till he felt better. The next time the tree trimmer came to ask, Marvin had just went to the hospital. I told them no again.

With the rain and the Spring weather, the trees grew a lot. they were touching the wires, and one of them was bending towards my neighbor's garage and I was afraid a branch may fall or hit something. I was enjoying the Jacuzzi when I took a good luck and decided something needed to be done. I knew Marvin would have agreed.

Since the tree trimmer had not been back for a few months, I was talking to our gardener about it on Friday March 30, and he said he did tree trimming too. We had the same gardener for about 7 years and I thought he could do it. I had him cut down some of the left tree and trim the right one, for $700.00

                                    Notice all the leaves and branches and the pile of wood

He and a friend came the morning of Easter Sunday at 6:30 AM  and left around 4:30 PM. After they were done, they stacked the wood by my driveway with a sign saying FREE and in a matter of two hours, somebody stopped and got them all. It sure save them money and a couple of trips to the dump, , I should have asked for a discount but I thought about it too late!

The backyard looks bigger and iIcan see the sky. But I feel sorry for the birds that lived there (some are now in my orange tree) and there's a lack of privacy from the neighbors. But it won't need trimming for a couple of years or more.

National Poetry Day

One in Catalan

LA SARDANA

La sardana es la dansa mes bella

de totes las danses que es fan i es desfan:

es la mobil magnifica anella

que amb pausa i amb mida va lenta oscil.lant.

Ja es decanta a la esquerra i vacil.la

ja volta otra volta a la dreta dubtant,

i s'en torna i retorna intranquil.la,

com, mal orientada, l'agulla d'imant.

Fixa's un punt i es detura com ella.

Del contrapunt arrencant-se novella,

de nou va voltant.

La sardana es la dansa mes bella

de totes las danses que es fan i es desfan,

Joan Maragall

Happy Easter

I don't remember very much about Easter in Spain when I was growing up.  I remember we had new dresses for Easter and a special cake called "Mona de Pascua" We also went to church on Easter Day.

Tia Loreto (tio Juan's wife), me, my grandmother (yaya) , Nuri and my mother

at the house I was born in Bonanova, on Palm Sunday , in 1946

When the girls were young, Easter was fun, dressing them up with cute outfits and bonnets

and looking for Easter eggs

Jerome, Idaho 1975

Then when my grandson was young we did the same, hiding Easter eggs, sometimes in Utah, sometimes in San Diego, sometimes here.

San Diego 2002?

When my sister Mia came to visit, it was usually during Easter, that was fun too.

2011

When I was working, the week before Easter we did a lot of  activities in Kindergarten, hiding eggs, 

having an Easter hat Parade etc.

This will be the first Easter I will be spending by myself  

Missing Marvin

March Recap

I didn't post too much in March. I hope I'll do better in April!

In March we had a lot of rain, very needed.

March 2 -3-   Lizzie came this weekend. We did some paperwork. Went to Zumaya's.
March 4 - Lizzie back to San Diego. Watched the Oscars, meh.
March 6 -  Jacuzzi with Amy and wine
March 8 - Sandy called :)
March 15- Elder Fraud meeting, pse.  I don't like meetings, didn't learn anything new.
March 16- To HB, dinner at Mama's with N.
March 19-  T turns 20!  San Jose
March 20-  To El Cholo with Amy
March 21-  To HB, dinner at Matsu's with N. Work on the Mustang. Total Wine.
March 23-24  Lizzie. Appt with taxes. Lunch at 12/60, and In'n'Out
March 25-   Lizzie organize things in office. Back to SD.
March 26-   Dinner with N to El Torito
March 28-   T home!   Paid off Honda.
March 29-    Donate 15 pairs of glasses to the Lions.

All month I worked getting tax papers and cleaning and organizing .  Doing good progress.
I have been gardening a little too. And walking with Lulu.  Missing Marvin.
Every Monday night  we have a 3 way talk with the girls :)

BOOKS I READ IN MARCH

MOVIES I WATCHED IN MARCH

This and That

Just finished watching the last show of  Queer Eye, mmmmm  firemen!  I had a Queer Eye Marathon this weekend and I enjoyed it a lot!

Lizzie has been here this weekend and helped me with the taxes, we had the tax person come Saturday morning, and we'll see what the damage is grrr.  After that we went to have lunch at 12/60, it was good, then we both -and Lulu too- had a long nap. In the evening we went to Sam's and Best Buy checking laptops/iPads etc. Then we had In'n'Out. Sunday morning we did some organizing, I redeemed a coupon from 1999 that Lizzie gave me for Christmas that year, and it said -Clean the Office- and so she did. Things start looking good.

I've been lazy about writing, I'll do better next month I hope. The weather has been coldish and rainy and I watched a few movies and read, and also was pretty busy cleaning and organizing, getting rid of a lot of stuff etc.

I hope all my readers had a nice weekend too!

February Recap

A whole month by myself (other than the weekend with Lizzie) It's different. I feel a lot less stressed, but a lot more lonely. Thanks Lulu for being such good company.

Feb  1 - Had my diabetes blood test (great results). Installed the HUM in the Mustang
Feb 2-4  - Lizzie came over to spend the weekend. Ate at Agrusa's . Mouse (rat?) in trap backyard.
Feb 6  - Jacuzzi and beer with Amy
Feb 7 -  To the podiatrist.
Feb 8 - Watch Winter Olympics beginning to end. Lulu haircut.
Feb 11- To the park with Lulu
Feb 12- Join the La Mirada Gym.
Feb  14- Lizzie to Taos. Eye checkup for long distance glasses. El Torito with N.
Feb 16 - Chinese New Year. Had chinese food for lunch. Target and Big Lots.
Feb 19 - Today would have been our 53rd Anniversary. 
               N's 62nd BD, I took him to lunch.  His choice: Seafood buffet.
Feb 20 - Jacuzzi with Amy and wine.
Feb 21-  Did some paperwork for N's insurance in the computer. To Sol Inka in LM for dinner.
Feb 22 - Went to get my glasses
Feb 27 - Rain, thunder, lightning and hail. N came over so I could help him get his DNA. Back to                      Sol  Inka.
Feb 28   To Jersey School to read and sing with Jennifer's class. Lunch with her to Veracruz. Talk to                  teachers.

Been texting and talking on the phone with the girls on regular basis. Dewey has called  a couple of times, also Sonia. I have gone by myself to eat lunch at different places.

BOOKS I'VE READ

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED