Yes, it’s hot here–supposed to be in the 90’s for the next few days–but it is definitely a dry heat. And it gets down into the 60’s at night, so it’s not bad at all. And, compared to most everyone else in the country (except for Seattle!), I’m not complaining! It’s 90-110 degrees in most […]

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It’s almost mid-July and I don’t know how that happened. Seems it was early May just the other day…and what happened to June? It’s definitely summer here even though it took it’s time getting here. And now I wish we could get just a bit of a break from the heat! I think part of […]

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Having our 4th of July BBQ tomorrow…and I’m exhausted tonight! Spent most of the day cooking and cleaning although my house doesn’t look that much cleaner tonight. Still have a lot of picking up the house to do, but at least I won’t be spending most of the day in the kitchen. Will get up […]

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The latest craze in the LA area these days is food trucks. Gourmet restaurants on wheels. Tonight Patrick, Vanessa and I went to a place called The Chef’s Kitchen here in Pasadena where about six food trucks were parked. Chef’s Kitchen is an incubator for food based businesses and, in addition to the food trucks, […]

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Another new addition to my family has arrived…Mitsy! She is a 7-week old part Siamese kitten. She looks like a sealpoint Siamese except for her paws which are white. I named her Mitsy because of her white mitten-like paws…and I ran out of names associated with the movie Nate and Hayes! The name suggested by […]

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Decided to do some trimming of roses, a few shrubs, etc before I put out the trash tonight. I was almost finished when I decided to pull out a few weeds along the front of the house, behind the ficus tree and some rose bushes. Big mistake. As I was finishing, I stepped back and […]

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I hate to complain about our weather, what with all the tornadoes and bad weather in other parts of the country, but I’m ready for some warmth! The pool is only about 60 degrees and I’m wondering if it will ever get warm enough for much swimming. I need it to be at least 15-20 […]

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A year ago at this time I was recuperating at Huntington Hospital after surgery to remove a football sized tumor (Chuck!) from my one of my ovaries along with the removal of my ovaries and uterus–a complete hysterectomy. While the surgery went well (no cancer!), that was the start of about 2 weeks of pure […]

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So the Lakers lost to Dallas. The bad thing is that I no longer care about the playoffs. The good thing is that I no longer care about the playoffs! And so I am getting on with my life and am not tied to the TV watching basketball until mid-June. Spent last weekend trimming citrus […]

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Another playoff season underway! The Lakers didn’t start off this series all that well, but managed to beat New Orleans in 6 games with the last one being the best. Final score was 98-80! Now we have to wait to see whether Dallas beats Portland tonight. I’m hoping the Lakers play Dallas since they’ve done […]

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I now have new teeth. Dr. Tse is absolutely the best and had me fitted with new teeth in a week. The weekend was a bit uncomfortable, but on Monday he smoothed out some rough spots and all is comfortable. Now it’s just a matter of getting used to extra ‘stuff’ in my mouth. And […]

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This week it’s dental problems. Now this is kinda gross, so don’t read further if you don’t want to hear about something yukky. I won’t go into all the gory details as it’s more than I really want to describe! I’ve had most of my teeth replaced over the years and only have two ‘real’ […]

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It was a beautiful day today with temps in the high 70’s-low 80’s so I opened the back door and let the cats out at about 9:00 am…and they stayed out all day until around 6:00 pm. They are now crashed on my bed and will probably be there most of the night. Hayes wandered […]

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Have been home for two days and it seems like ages ago that I was in Seattle. I’ve been so busy at home and at work that I haven’t had a chance to even think about my trip. I came home to a house that reeked of cat urine. It seems that Sophie didn’t like […]

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So it’s in the 80’s and 90’s in LA while I’m visiting Seattle where it’s in the 40’s!!! And I am freezing! It’s also raining, and raining, and raining. And then it rains some more. Today we went to Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle. It’s sort of like what Old Pasadena used to be before […]

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Next week at this time I’ll be in Seattle…and I have lots to do before I leave. And then I got sick last night. Yuk. I woke up at about 2:30 sneezing and coughing non-stop. I knew I should have taken a Mucinex before I went to bed ’cause my sinuses were dripping into my […]

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My yard and flowerbeds are saturated…and my water bill will probably be exorbitant…but I think everything will survive for 10 days with no hose or sprinkler watering. I filled 8 containers with water that I’ll use to water with a sprinkling can and I’ll collect the cold water that runs while I’m waiting for the […]

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My entire body aches. I spent the weekend spreading the above-mentioned mulch. I’ve mulched almost all the flowerbeds/rose beds completely. The only beds that weren’t mulched were those with succulents and other drought tolerant plants. And my yard is looking fabulous! I did the mulching in order to help the plants retain water while the […]

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How can this be? Kevin is 36 today! Wasn’t he living here with me just a few years ago? Yet now he is married, owns a house and has a son. I don’t know how all those years passed by so quickly. And I haven’t gotten any older, so how could he? I wish he […]

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Planned to spend the day working in the yard. Wound up spending most of the afternoon in the backyard with Vanessa and then Patrick and Veronica. It seemed like summer…and it helped that it was 80 degrees and a beautiful sunny day! I did get most of my flowers and the last three rose bushes […]

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