Family Blog

Grandpa and Harrison

April 23, 2024

Harrison and I had a fun play date. Grandma was at her Pilates class so we were having a "guy's day" - at least for a few hours. I loved it.

Fun at Christmas Dinner with the Julianna's

December 25, 2019

We had fun with the Julianna's after Christmas dinner. We had a Reddi Wip launching contest. Your browser does not support the video tag.

I've been tinkering again. I am preparing for a weekend photo shoot in Joshua Tree at the beginning of May. I've signed up for a class through Creative Photo Academy which is associated (and located next to) Paul's photo - a local photo shop. We will be learning astrophotography in one of the best …

Happy St. Paddy’s Day

March 17, 2019

Hope you all are having a fun and safe St. Patrick's Day. We enjoyed some Irish stew and Guiness oatmeal bread all made by me! I had no idea I could cook. I think I will surrender the kitchen when Jan is back on her feet though - cooking is too much work.

H2O Taxis

August 8, 2018

I love these little water taxis here in Victoria BC. We rode one to Fisherman's Wharf and it was fun. I want to get a job piloting one of these all day

Crossing the bridge

August 1, 2018

We are in Vancouver on vacation. Our house sitter is guarding the dogs (I'm sure they aren't guarding her). We went to Capilano Suspension Bridge today. It was lots of fun. Jan got stung by a bee and it really hurt for a long time. She managed to enjoy the hike anyway. I plan to add more details to…

Happy 4th!!!

July 4, 2018

I hope everyone has a very safe and happy Fourth of July

Retirement luncheon

June 26, 2018

The gang at work just gave me a retirement luncheon at the local burger joint called Hopdoddy's. We had lots of fun telling stories and complaining about work. I told them that I would be thinking about them while I'm sitting on a beach sipping my mai tai. I've only been there a year but they seem…

Scarface

June 10, 2018

We went to another one of Denny's barbershop shows last night. This one was called ?Scarface? and was put on in a warehouse where an artist lives. They converted it to a speakeasy from the 20s. The photo below is of one of the barbershop guys who is dressed up to look like the man from monopoly. Boy…

Sugarland

June 2, 2018

We went to the Sugarland concert last night at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The concert was really good. It's been along time since we've seen Sugarland, they haven't been touring in a long time.

Lompoc Wine Festival

April 21, 2018

Jan and I joined Larry and Chris Murakami at the wine festival for the weekend. They stayed at flying flags in their motor home and we stayed at Pea Soup Anderson's hotel. We had a fantastic time cooking out at their motorhome and couldn't believe how much that place is changed. Lots of new cabins…

Super moon

November 14, 2016

I got up early today to photograph the super moon over looking the lighthouse. I also took some time-lapse photos of a bike with flashing rear lights. This is fun, but I need a lot more practice

We be database driven!

March 9, 2016

Well, I have gotten the blog page to be driven by a mysql database. I'm still inputing the posts using the db admin tool until I can create a proper post page. This is fun - I must be a nerd.