MY LIFE FROM LAKE ALMANOR AND BEYOND

My postbox protected by the big tree. Daffodils! Snow creations! 

I remember my mother telling me I was named after Janet Gaynor. Today I watched a silent movie called  "Sunrise" starring Janet ...

Today I had my annual physical and my cholesterol is up!!!  No wonder--I have been eating like a teenager this winter.  So saying goodbye  t...

Meagan gave me a sign that said, "If you are lucky enough to live in the moutains, you are lucky enough."  That was so true today....

This is another fun picture I found today.  This was the day after my sister Carole's wedding in Pacific Beach.  I am on the left, th...

This is another old picture I found of my first year of teaching in San Diego.  I was teaching in South San Diego and had too many studen...

I love to find pictures of Richard with the children.   This was probably the winter of 1966 and we had probably gone up to Julian when i...

Bandido and I are both recuperating from our exhausting ordeal, both of us walking far more than we normally do.  Him seeking home, me seeki...

...from the musical "Annie". Last night while it was still light Bandido was on the deck but not ready to come in.  When I went ...

Lea turns 12!  Have a wonderful year, Lea!  Last year before those teens!

     

Is going to be wonderful to watch this year.  Such beautiful, happy people who are so good!!! Today I watched an excellent documentary on ...

I've been making my way through the Oscar movies.  DirectTV is giving back $10 if you watch 4 this month.  Last night I watched Descenda...

I made my pies this morning, and I should note it doesn't work to substitute potato and corn starch for flour when making crumb crust.  ...

Today is a one of the kinds of days I love most in Lake Almanor.  I should write a poem about it.  The snow is falling with large wet flakes...

I have always wondered how certain famous people always appear to have the same hairdo month after month.  I have never been able to achieve...

I am watching this series that Herman Wouk wrote about WWII.  It really struck me in one scene.  So many times soldiers are criticized or pu...

-- The second is to put our understanding into action ."   Good advice from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.  While I was having a fatty i...

I put out an email to see if anyone knew where the new dog groomer is in Chester and Maryanne came to the rescue.  She had remembered seeing...

Yesterday when I saw the Miller Hot Dogs and got the craving it was a big mistake!  I bought them and made my own gluten free hot dog buns a...

Little Jessica Sanchez sang "I'll Always Love You" and made us all cry.  She is another Whitney--so amazing. It is going to ...

While looking for new books on my audio "Library to Go"  I couldn't believe I saw " Seventeenth Summer", a book I ha...

Last week I went in for another zap on the cancerous looking  spot on the side of my head.  Dr Marc made an appointment for my annual this m...

The best thing about having a bad memory is you can watch an old movie and not remember what is going to happen at all. The thing I do rem...

Lo and behold I found my Seven Dwarf's furniture, such as it is. I had such ambition when I started out. I intended on carving the...

Wow, I am flattered that my granddaughter Melissa would use a picture of me from May 1959 on her wall arrangement about the sea.  Sh...

Last night one of my favorite Bette Midler movies was on.  'For the Boys' was about two peformers who entertained the troops in WWII...

Just had fresh bread with butter and honey, yum, yum. I've made about three different kinds of gluten free bread from the recipe book...

I found a wonderful site on byutv.org.  It is 30 episodes of 'Insight into Isaiah'  as in 30 half hour discussions of Isaiah in the ...

We all know Bandido  has poor eyesight.  Today he almost froze because of it. I let him out on the back deck where I had shoveled a nice s...

"Darn, we thought spring was here!"

As I was listening to the TV today I heard someone say "I have never seen so much fear in the faces of the people as I followed the c...

I just finished the book Maria sent to me 'A Train in Winter'.  It is the story of 230 women who were a part of the French Resistanc...

I'm finished working on my Seven Dwarf House for awhile.  I can't find the furniture I made in San Diego though.  But Matt is here...

If I get nothing else done in the day, at least if I did my hour of family research indexing I can feel I have accomplished something. Tod...

This is a picture of Carole a year before she married. At the cabin, of course. This is my brother Dick, his son Roddy with Mom, Car...

Here is Keira dressed in the Raggedy Ann dress I made for Meagan on her first birthday and holding the Raggedy Ann doll I also made.  I had ...

Today I watched all six episodes of "Island at War".  At times I wondered why I suffer through these WWII movies because the mean ...

One of my childhood friends, George, sent me some pictures of my hometown.  This was taken in 1924 and I did not move there until I was ...

Well, I finally started shingling the roof of my dollhouse and I am not enjoying it at all. It is going to be a tedious job, I can see. A...

Today I really enjoyed the Sunday School Lesson on the Atonement given by Jane.  And one point was made so well about receiving tender me...

I love this picture taken in the backyard of our Pacific Beach home in about 1964. Maria, Johnny and Linda already to go some place, C...

My sore throat and earache have returned--why?  I had antibiotics for five days which was supposed to be good for 10 days but I figured it w...

I just enjoyed watching another BBC Masterpiece Series "Downton Abbey" but there was no happy ending.  I don't like that.  It ...

My credit union has my tax refund already.  Mike won't have his for another week and he completed his about a week before I did mine.  I...

This recent show by Hallmark was so touching.  It is the story of a teacher of a Special Ed group who gets permission and money to take them...

It was a warm sunny day and Bruce wanted to lay down in the middle of the road because there was lots of sun there. I enticed him over t...

I used to make most of my clothes and this was the kind of dress I wore to teach kindergarten or to church or anywhere. I didn't w...

Now this is what I call good eating. Walmart sells these huge butternut squash for 91 cents most days. I cook them like mashed potatoes (...

HBO had free service this weekend and I watched the documentary "What is the matter with Aunt Jane?"  or something like that. A ...

So over a week has passed and I have not written in my blog.  What's up?  One thing bad I did is to reorganize my pictures and now sever...