Free Time

Once a year we get a free hour. What can we do with a free hour? Most of us celebrate by sleeping an extra hour, sounds good to me. Trick or treat for an extra hour? Eat candy for an extra hour, watch a scary movie for an extra hour? What are you going to do with YOUR extra hour.

Working on It

I know that my pictures and blogs are kind of all mixed up. I am learning and I'm still working on learning how to do things. Thanks for not making fun of me.

Healthy Low Calorie Recipes and Menus

Healthy Low Calorie Recipes and Menus

First Try @ a Tri

Big day for grandpa. He was the swimming leg of the Fort Hunter-Liggett triathlon. He has been training for 5 months, swimming 5 days a week in the summer and 3 days a week since school started. Today was the big day, he was ready, nervous but ready. The even is very small compared to the Wildflower at Lake San Antonio, but it was fun. We knew a lot of the other athletes even some of the army participants cause they are in our ward. The army participation was less than the sign up because they were in manuvers which were postponed because of the rain. I guess the army is not as tough as Survivors. For those who don't follow Survivors, they had to survive through the hurricane that hit Samoa, they cut them no slack, raining and raining and cold and windy for days and days everything wet, their skin shriveling up from being so wet. Anyway the army guys don't have to do that, I guess cause it doesn't rain in Iraq or Afghanistan. So now that the weather is nice they are out there manuvering.

Dad did good, his team didn't win anything but that was OK. The winning team had Brent Green who was a last minute add on, Chuck Krouse, and Lawson Welburn who was also a last minute add on. So basically the team with the least about of training time won. What does that say?? I don't KNOW. (pee wee's voice). They had a nice after event luncheon at the Hacienda and handed out the awards, it was all good. I think the ones who did it without teams were mostly all army, at least the winners. I'm not sure if Bruce is now more scared or less scared of the Wildflower. But he had fun.

Dressed for Autumn

Did you ever wonder why Fall/Autumn has two names, Winter is just winter, Spring just spring and Summer just Summer? Makes ya go hummm.

Well, thanks to my granddaughter, Madeline, my house is now dressed for fall/autumn. When we were with m,s,s last sat. Maddy asked me if my house was all decorated for fall. Hummm, not really, I had thought about it, really. Actually I had made a fall 3D thingy like I had made for summer but that was it. It made me think of when I would call my mom and ask if she had decorated for Christmas and she said kind of but she wasn't getting a tree. Now in my house when I was growing up, the tree was a BIG deal, it was 100% tradition. We shopped for the tree as a family, we didn't put the tree up until Christmas eve no matter what, we decorated the tree as a family while watching some movie about Sinbad, every year some strange story of Sinbad on Christmas eve, I have no clue on that one, then after we went to bed my mom would stay up until late putting on the aluminium tinsel one strand at a time, no clumping allowed. The presents would then go under the tree so when we came down the stairs Christmas morning we would see the beautiful glowing tree with all the gifts, breath taking. But I digress, I do digress a lot. So as a grandma, having my granddaughter ask if I had decorated called me out. So out came my fall decorations. I had to do a little hunting in the garage, but I found the box. I also made a little trip to Rite Aid where all the fall stuff was 50% off yeah got a few cute things to add to my collection and went to work. It was fun, I got everything all cleaned up looking very fallish and knock knock, a visitor. How fun was that. My friend Dayna, just came for a chat and there was my house all dressed for the party. Looking forward now to Thanksgiving and feeling festive. Thank you Maddy for the little push.

Rain is raining all Around

When the weather man says rain, I say yea right I will believe it when I see it! Well, we are seeing it today, it is raining pretty good. We had our roof fixed, this time it was a real roofing company from Castroville, Williams Roofing. We didn't know what we were missing until we chose them. They were great, very professional with a contract and an estimate and they came when they said they would and they did what they said they would, it was a new and enjoyable experience. But I digress. This is about rain. But, because of the wonderful fixed roof, the rain is back to being something that I enjoy not dread. It was, OH No not rain, get the buckets, get the towels, today it was Oh listen to sound of the rain, look at the puddles and the raindrops, isn't it fun. I do love the rain. I know my lawn and flowers will be happy, I hope that the lakes will fill up and be happy, I hope people will slow down and drive carefully, I hope children will splash in the puddles and stay well. Fall is here and I am ready. (smily face)

A Good Day in SLO, Is There Any Other Kind?

Saturday in San Luis Obispo, what is it about that town? Ever since we moved to King City as youngun's we have loved San Luis Obispo. We wanted to live there, way over our price point, Bruce wanted to teach there, just hired a new band teacher, so we just visit. I remember taking my mom to SLO, she loved it too, what is it about that town?

This Saturday we were meeting up with Sarah, Maddy and Sage, Sarah and Maddy were running a half marathon the next day so they were able to "hang out" with us. It was fun, we went to lunch at Pepe Delgado's, Maddy remember that place from when they lived there, good food. Then we decided to stroll around the great shops, that was so fun. Madeline is a real fashionesta, she has a great eye and knows a lots about what is good and what is not. She pretty much looks like a model, I noticed she got a lot of "looks". I think she didn't even see them, which is a good thing. As we were looking in the girly stores grandpa and Sage went off on their own. I got a scarf and had a private lesson on how to wear it, I am looking forward to doing that soon. Madeline got some really cute things that I guess she is willing to share with her mom, Sage got some things he wanted and grandpa got some headphones, I guess you can't have too many headphones. The weather was fab, the company rad, the parting sad (not really, we will meet again soon) so all it all a great fall day in a charming California town. Thanks

We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet

I just want to say how great it was to watch conference. It was like the joy of watching the sun rise, feeling the warmth on your face and the start of a new day.

After listening to all the negativity on the news on TV and reading the paper, it really was like a breath of fresh air. Encouraging and uplifting. Some of my favorite hymns were sung and some that I kind of like were actually tweeked so they sounded fresh and new. I am so thankful to be able to hear and see our prophet and his conselors and the twelve apostles. To hear their loving words and their burning testimonies really made my day. Also thankful that we could record conference and be able to watch it over at our leisure. Got to love technology.

Leaning to Learn and Facing your Fears

Had a great fall weekend letting go and learning to learn. What is she talking about you may wonder. Dad and I took a watercolor class this Sat. The lady who taught it teaches at Cuesta College lives in Lockwood I think, out by the lakes. She was great. Everyone was at a different level, from the young kid who hadn't done any art at all, some who had taken a class from this lady before, to some of us who had been "trained" in art. The fear part was the watercolor part. My feelings were well you just can't do watercolor, Suzette. But I decided to give it a try, hey for 30 dollars it was really a good deal. from 9-4. Sounds like a long time but somehow the time just flew. Joy, the teacher was very accepting but at the same time helpful. Taught us some good information on mixing watercolor, we did some beginning exercises and then after lunch we did our main work. 3 hours and still far from finishing. It was so great to have a class to take in King City and be able to learn to learn all over again and face the fear of watercolors. I think I can do it!! I think I can, I think I can.