We Danced All Day.... And Remembered Ten Years Ago
God Bless The USA
Friends And Vitamen "F"
Why do I have a variety of friends who are all different in character ?
Some of them can be considered marginal even ?
How do I get on with them all ?
I think that each one helps to bring out a "different" part of me.. .
With one of them I am a polite, good girl.
I joke with another friend.
I sit down and talk about serious matters with one of them.
With another I giggle at every silly thing.
I have my wine with one
And dance with another.
I listen to one friend's problems and give her advice
Then I listen to another advising me.
They are all like pieces of a jigsaw,
When completed they form a treasure box.
A treasure of friends!
They are my friends who understand me better than myself,
who support me through good days and bad days.
They are like colorful anti-depressants that I take on different days.
Real Age doctors tell us that friends are good for our health.
Dr. Oz calls them Vitamins F (from Friends) and counts the benefits of friends to our well being.
Research shows that people in strong social circles have less risk of depression and terminal strokes. If you take Vitamin F constantly you can be up to 30 years younger than your real age.
The warmth of friendship stops stress and even in your tense moments it decreases the chance of a cardiac arrest or stroke by 50%.
We are so happy that I have a stock of Vitamins F!
In summary we should value our friends and keep in touch with them.
We should try to see the funny side of things and laugh together, not forgetting to open our mouths big to swallow the floating vitamins F !!!!
Thank you for being our vitamins!
Newport Harbor Elks Here We Come
After church we headed for the Newport Harbor Elks to eat lunch and dance from 1:00 until about 4:30 with Herbie and Irene.
Herb and Irene
Patriotic day and we were ready for it
Sue and Cookie... He makes sure she can eat anytime we go to the Newport Harbor Elks
Sandy and Bob arrive
Bob hit the drawing once and Paul hit it twice today....
Herb and Paul try to figure out how to take this to the car
At 4:30 We Headed For Old Ranch For A Dinner Dance...
A beautiful evening awaited us...
Pete and Lisa celebrated their birthdays with us
For almost twenty years Paul & Pete have been exchanging birthdy cars with a monkey on it....
Meet and greet
Voted "Most Colorful Shirt" and quite patriotic
"... and another thing...."
Wagging....
Did You Know? - Wag is a highland district in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
"I did what? I wanted you to pull my finger!"
Vince and Nancy
get their gavorite Old Ranch Drink... The Mai Tai
Did You Know? - It was purportedly invented at the Trader Vic's restaurant in Oakland, California in 1944. Trader Vic's rival, Don the Beachcomber, claimed to have created it in 1933 at his then-new bar named for himself (later a famous restaurant) in Hollywood. Don the Beachcomber's recipe is more complex than that of Vic's and tastes quite different.
The Trader Vic story of its invention is that the Trader (Victor J. Bergeron) created it one afternoon for some friends who were visiting from Tahiti. One of those friends, Carrie Guild, tasted it and cried out: "Maita'i roa ae!" (Literally "very good!", figuratively "Out of this world! The Best!") — hence the name.
"OK OK... You can pull all five fingers all at once!"
They look worried
because they know we are gong to sing "Happy Birthday" to them
Do not fight over the first bite of cake... OK?
The Sun Begins To Set And The Dancing Gets Serious
Sunset over Old Ranch is beautiful
Our group could make Old Sol laugh!
Look carefully and you will see someone on the first tee
Did You Know? - A tee is a stand used to support a stationary ball so that the player can strike it, particularly in golf, tee ball, American football, and rugby.
The word tee is derived from the Scottish Gaelic word tigh meaning house and is related to the 'house' in curling (the coloured circles). This would make sense, as the first golf tees were within a circle of one club length round the hole. Nowadays, modern courses have separate, designated tee boxes for each hole. For example, the ninth hole of a course is played from the ninth tee to the ninth green, and similarly for the other holes.
Steve Is Now In Full Swing
Sweet music to our ears
When he plays "Amazing Grace" half of our gang had tears in their eyes
A view from our dinner table.... Life is indeed good
Dr. Zaitz arrives... The dancing may now begin in earnest... Dressed for the day
Birthday people all wear white???
Pete demonstraates his karate move with lightening fast hands
Oh oh.... Irenethe teacher is now wagging the finger.... Who is in trouble!
Someone else is having a birthday this evening... We all sing
Did You Know? - "Happy Birthday to You", also known more simply as "Happy Birthday", is a song that is traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth. According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least 18 languages.
Dinner Be Served And David Keeps Everything Moving Along Nicely
"Yo... Who had the Taco's and who had the fish???"
Now to burn off the calories
Ernie and John demonstrate "Dirty Dancing"
Ernie and John do it right
John makes your heart melt
Did You Know? - The saxophone was developed in 1846 by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist, and clarinetist working in Paris. While still working at his father's instrument shop in Brussels, Sax began developing an instrument which had the projection of a brass instrument with the agility of a woodwind. Another priority was to invent an instrument which would overblow at the octave, unlike the clarinet, which rises in pitch by a twelfth when overblown; an instrument which overblew at the octave would have identical fingering for both registers.
Donna breaks the "light barrier".... Faster than a flash!
Slowed down to a mear 75 mph
Time For A Break
The Halls Of Old Ranch are beautiful
Candy?
Did You Know? - A hard candy, or boiled sweet, is a candy prepared from one or more syrups boiled to a temperature of 149 °C (300 °F). After a syrup boiled to this temperature cools, it is called hard crack, since it becomes stiff and brittle as it approaches room temperature. Hard candy recipes variously call for syrups of sucrose, glucose, or fructose.
Once the syrup blend reaches the target temperature, the confectioner removes it from the heat source, and may add citric acid, food dye, and some flavouring, such as a plant extract, essential oil, or flavorant. One might then pour the syrup concoction (which is now very viscous) into a mold or tray to cool. When the syrup is cool enough to handle, one can fold, roll, and mold it into the shapes desired.
So very relaxing... Being an Old Ranch member is indeed special
Dancing Is Now Underway
There is still room for more on the floor
Pete is now a civilian after twenty-two years of being a Marine
Exactly 45 degrees
.... No more.... No less
Bob did the calcuolations ahead of time
Vicky tries it with Del.... Oh No!
Vicky is getting the real scoop
How we count the empty bottle of wine
A recently harvested cork tree
Did You Know? - The tree forms a thick, rugged bark containing high levels of suberin. Over time the cork cambium layer of bark can develop considerable thickness and can be harvested every 9 to 12 years to produce cork. The harvesting of cork does not harm the tree, in fact, no trees are cut down during the harvesting process. Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource. The tree is cultivated in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco, France, Italy and Tunisia. Cork Oaks are considered to be soil builders and their fruits have been shown to have useful insecticidal properties. Cork Oak forests cover approximately 25,000 square kilometres in those countries (equivalent to 2,277,700 hectares). Portugal accounts for around 50% of the world cork harvest.
Who could have done this???? Donna, where are you?