MY LIFE FROM LAKE ALMANOR AND BEYOND

Making hard decisions after months of stewing!  It's a good thing. Bar-S Corn Dogs from Costco baked at 375 for 20 minutes!  It's ...

Saturday night I was privileged to be invited to the surprise birthday party for Maryanne, our Relief Society President.  Her son had pla...

Richard, in high school.   Richard, when we married. Richard, a few years before he passed away. No doubt about it, he was hand...

Carole told about her dog's experience at the cabin last week and it was so like Bandido's. While they were away from the cabin he...

Today was the first day the lake was really littered with ash and embers--largest about 2".  So dirty, I hope no one got it in their mo...

In 1957 I was in a play at 4th Ward in North Park.  Danny, one of the San Diego locals, played my son.  I had floured grey hair as his mo...

I guess I am really committed to my water noodling exercise.  Today I was the only person at the lake, not even the lifeguards.  There was q...

We had much needed rain this morning so we could see blue sky and the sun.  When I went to the beach at 1:15 the only ones there were two yo...

Here's a picture of John  that surfaced this week,  He would have been 12 years old and had started surfing in 5th grade so was surfin...

We were watching "Man in the Back Booth" on my computer because it was already on the dining room table and had the speakers hooke...

This water therapy at the lake is so good for me.  Today you could acttually see some blue sky for awhile but there was only a few people t...

How many times have we seen a runaway heroine in a motel chopping off her hair and it ends up looking fabulous.  I stopped wearing my hair...

Just as Michael was ready to warm up some chili, the power went out.  We scraped our monies together and bought him a Subway as I had to go ...

We have had so much smoke from two fires near here that we rarely see the sun. For the most part the windows are closed and Michael is read...

I just watched one of the best films to come out about WWII, the supposed true story of the "Memphis Belle" bomber plane which fle...

Here is the proof, I actually swam in the lake when Meagan and Keira were here.  Thank heaven this is a distant picture.  This was before I...

Meagan took a lot of great pictures of Keira while she was here.  These are some of my personal favorites.                 ...

Keira was the only one of her age group to show up for her "Mom and Me" Swim Lesson so she had a private lesson with lots of che...

  The reward for a good day's work in the lake. Hey I like to wear this vest! Practicing Keira's Swim Lesson.

Keira and Meagan flew to Reno on Sunday and  by Sunday night we were playing on the slides and dancing to the Jazz band at the Bandshell. ...

For years my Mom would roll up raisen filling in pie crust on a long cookie sheet and I did the same and have always loved it.  Usually I ma...

I finally found out what those obnoxious little ads were on my blogs.  Text Enhance has certain words turn blue and underlined and when anyo...

In the book "The Last Honest Woman"  the horse stalls needed to be cleaned every morning and the horses let out into the corral.  ...

  My sister and Stephie were dropping off some furniture at the cabin today and visited with the Thayne boys and checked out how their ...

My perfect gluten free crust. Michael and I make a mess in the kitchen!  I was not finished making ice cream when he wants me to ma...

Isn't it strange how most of the bad stuff that happens to us is because of a bad choice we made?   I was the one who deleted all my fam...

I loved this picture because Keira looks like she is getting crushed with love and saying--ok, guys, enough, enough. I love this pictur...