Our Daily Diary

Another Leisurely Day

Well, we started with the tread mill at 6:00 am and completed at 6:30.  Needed a 15 minute cool down.  Hit the garden at 6:45 am and filled 200 gallons in clippings and dead plants.   We then headed for Old Ranch for a leisurely 18 holes of golf finishing up on 19 with a glass of wine!  After feeding the babies, we headed for the Phoenix Club so we could dance from 7-10:30.  Then home!

These little guys (8 pounds each so far...) are about 8 feet in the air and the vine continues to grow!

we dressed cool because swing dancing gets a little warm quickly!

The Little Big Band played this evening!

Remember: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Dancing At Cypress Senior Citizens Center

We worked in the garden this morning and played 18 holes of golf!  We met up with James and Linda at happy hour…. James played nine and Linda joined us on 19!!  Afterward, we went to Cypress for a few hours of dancing!

Time to kick up the heels!

Despicable Me In 3D

We went to see Despicable Me with Vicky an Del. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds himself profoundly changed by the growing love between them.  We all got a hoot of out the movie.

Funny funny funny

A Visit With Kat Robinson

We dropped in on Kat and visited for a while!  We saw two dogs playing in the courtyard and Kat really enjoyed that!

Kat enjoyed watching the dogs play in the courtyard

TV Movie: Mending Fences

Another great movie by Hallmark! Mending Fences has everything!After failing to get the anchor woman position she was promised solely as wife (now ex) of a studio boss, Kelly Faraday needs to feel her own roots again. She returns home with daughter Kamilla, to equally stubborn (grand)ma Ruth Hanson. Ruth makes them commit to try keep the ranch in the family at a time of drought, when neighbors sell to a company that wants to build a casino. Kelly’s ex Walt Mitchell, now Ruth’s foreman, rekindles her love-life, while Kamilla gets on with local rancher Hank Bentley’s son Chuck.

Last Meal At Ambrosia

Ambrosia is closing for a couple of years and we will really miss it.  We decided to have one last lunch at our favorite place!

We will miss Ambrosia!

Dancing At The Jam Session

We went dancing Sunday afternoon at Santa Ana Elks.  The monthly Jam Session was underway.  We brought our own musician!  Hank Barto enjoyed playing the accordion!

The Polka will never be the same!

Del teaches Donna the Polka!

We’ve Been Working on The Railraod!

Wow! What a trip! Forty-two of us departed Uion Station at 7:30 Saturday morning and headed to Santa Barbara for an afternoon of wine tasting, sight seeing, and other “adult activities”.  We all had fun and there are almost 800 pictres on the site for all to share!  Please join us!

Breakfast at 70 miles per hour!

Remember: We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th)

Dance Time At The Phoenix Club

The Phoenix Club has a huge dance floor and live 10-20 piece Big Band.  We have so many excellent friends from this activity!

Plenty of room

Great music all evening!

A Beautiful Day For Golf

We played 18 holes and went for a drink before going to see Dr. Janis.  Golf was good and so was Dr. Janis!  After that we went to visit the babies and off to the Phoenix Club for an evening of dancing!

A beautiful day for golf!

Off To The Fair For Visit #2

Old Ranch was having an event so we decided to go to the OC Fair again! we slowly walked the places we did not see on Saturday and enjoyed it.  we capped the evening with the hypnotist and even met up with Ron and Cathy Jessner!  Come join us!

Vicky took the picture of us and the worms!

Remember: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Being In Love Is Fantastic

If love makes the world go around then we need seatbelts!

Remember: A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.  — English proverb

TV Movie: Plainsong

Plainsong is an excellent movie. Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation based on the novel by Kent Haruf. Tom Guthrie (Aidan Quinn), a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones (Rachel Griffiths), a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support. When Victoria Roubideaux (America Ferrera), a 17-year old student at their school, becomes pregnant, her mother forces her out of their home. Victoria goes to Maggie for help. Maggie befriends the teenager and eventually arranges for her to live outside their small town in the ranch house of the two bachelor McPheron brothers, Raymond (Geoffrey Lewis) and Harold (William Andrews). They take her in and help her prepare for the birth of her baby. Their lives become interlocked with other seeming misfits in their small Colorado town. Gradually, they all grow to need and depend on each other, and ultimately, they build more than a community; they create a family.

Another heart warming movie where again people from different background can be wonderful to one another

TV Movie: On The Beach

Sue had never seen On The Beach and Paul lived through it (I was in High School).  It was spooky! Summary: In the aftermath of an atomic war, much of humanity has been destroyed. Only Australia remains, but time is short as the winds will inevitably spread nuclear fallout and everyone knows they have only a few months to live.

Among those coming to terms with the inevitable is a U.S. navy officer, Cmdr. Dwight Towers, whose submarine and crew were at sea when the holocaust occurred; Moira Davidson, a free-spirit who develops a close attachment to Towers; Julian Osborne, whose dream is to win the Australian Grand Prix automobile race; and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Holmes, who is as concerned about his wife and newborn child’s future as his own. All cope with the inevitability of death in their own way, but also with love, dignity and affection.

It was seen as a possibiity in 1959!

TV Movie: Valley Of Light

We were a bit tired today as we had lunch with friends and then made six quarts of tomato sauce from our garden.  We decided not to go dancing but to rest and watch some saved-up Hallmark movies.  The first one was “Valley Of Light“.

Coming home from Europe after WWII was not easy

Summary: Made-for-TV drama about Noah (Chris Klein), a homeless World War II veteran who settles in a small North Carolina town and develops relationships with Eleanor (Gretchen Mol), a lonely war widow and a mute boy (Zach Mills) whose father has abandoned him. Noah, is a fantastic fisherman and aims to make a living at catfishing. Eleanor allows Noah to stay on her small farm in the “fishing shack”. They are drawn to each other through mutual loneliness and a longing to find purpose in life and create a new future for themselves.

Noah is haunted by his experiences in the war and by his quest to catch a mythically hugh bass that has become a metaphore for his inner struggle to find himself. He once caught the gigantic bass, but released it as he could not bring himself to kill it. He finds himself falling in love with Eleanor, but cannot persue the relationship until his inner turmoil is resolved. In the end, the mythical bass remains free and Noah and Eleanor find themselves and each other.