Thursday, July 25, 2013

July 6

Dad and his brew

Mom, Drake and Barb
Dinner out at the Mexican place and hanging out at the Peplinski's back yard!  Drake is a sweetheart.

July 5

July 4


Up at Loon Lake, WA celebrating the 4th.  Barb and I took the kayaks out!

July 2

July 1


scenes from my Mom's garden

June 30

as seen in the yard at my folks place in Veradale!

June 29

Big Foot Bar in Crescent, Oregon.  On our drive up highway 97

June 27

June 24

my little birds having breakfast

June 22

Salute to the army men and women driving this convoy on highway 101 between Morgan Hill and San Jose!

June 21

Just getting the hair highlighted and trimmed with Krista!

June 19

June 15

We went on a cruise and train ride with our Camaro Club and these Red Hat ladies were also on the train. They were playing their kazoos! 

June 12

June 8

flowers from our CSA box

June 6



lovely blueberries...

Jun 6



the front porch

June 5

June 4

Got the eyes checked today!

June 3

the yard needed a little help since the sprinkler timer isn't working too well.

June 1


I swam one mile for Breast Cancer!

May 31

Here's the new one... sort of like the old one ;-)

May 30


 So long to the 1999 Silverado, a new truck is on it's way!  She was a good truck and Mark misses her.


Monday, May 27, 2013

May 27

all the flowers are really blooming, even the jasmine there in the background which has been very slow growing.

May 26

a nice little bouquet after doing yard work today!

May 25

First cherries of the year, Dana brought them over to us while we were working on the condo in Fresno. She got them at her favorite fruit stand on 180, where you turn to go "up the mountain"!

May 23

Chris taking his first test ride on the bike Grampa gave him.  It's the bike Grampa rode on his epic trip through Canada, the Yukon and Alaska!

May 22


May 20

Ken's getting the engine loaded into his work truck, so he can take it to KP Monday morning!


May 19

Out to dinner with the family at Black Angus!

may 18

Crossing the Columbia River in the Tri-Cities... bridge we don't cross is in the photograph, it's the "Cable Bridge" which is officially named the Ed Hender Bridge.

may 17

This bad boy 396 Chevy is crated up and ready for it's trip to Spokane!

May 15


May 14

 Some of the decorations from National Scrapbook Day were still up at Scrapbook Island when I went to meet my friends for our monthly crafty get together!  Love this!








Monday, May 13, 2013

May 12

Cards and breakfast on Mother's Day... down in Reedley!

May 11

Ashley and Andrew Dresson!

May 10

the patio needs some clean-up after the horrible winds

May 8


May 7


at Dr. Nguyen's for my dental check-up!  Got an A

May 3

Mark and Steve talking about Camaros at the CCOC car show

May 2








The lone peony bush is blooming!

April 28

One of the prompts this week was a portrait, Miss Friday wasn't totally cooperative!

April 26

the original jail in the quaint town of Kingsburg.  After dinner we drove over from Reedley to check out the bakery where Dana wants to get her wedding cake from.  Unfortunately they were  out of cupcakes!

April 25

the prompt was "Fence".  This time of year the neighbor across the street has such bright flowers along their fence I took a quick picture.

April 24

 things are starting to bloom!