MY LIFE FROM LAKE ALMANOR AND BEYOND

Janet and Richard in better days.

Luckily I recorded "Dust to Dreams" on Friday night which was a celebration of the opening of the Smith Center of Performing Arts ...

Just watched the movie as titled above.  It was really excellent.  I am so envious of people who are talented in music and dance in any way....

Keira is learning how to take care of her babies.  That's a good thing to learn at preschool, prepares them for that baby brother or s...

In my back 40!

I discovered the source of my Gluten Attack this week.  It is the Walmart Corn Dogs.  I loved the Costco ones so much with no problem that I...

Bandido appears handicapped by his fears and can't decide which way or where to move.  I finally guide him back to the deck.  He touch...

Bandido is happily sleeping in his little habitat.  He was shaking so much when I picked him up and looked so pathetic.  On the way home he ...

The good thing is Bandido has been found and is at the Quincy Animal Shelter. The bad thing is they picked him up on my street at 3 pm tod...

I am recrunching the numbers and rethinking being totally homeless.  It just seems apparent that at sometime I would need to settle in a pla...

Bandido has been missing for almost 20 hours now.  Yesterday he got his hair cut and there was a lot of hair to cut off.  Plus she cut him s...

The weather is so spectacular right now.  It is a shame that everyone has gone home for the season. We had a lovely lunch after Church tod...

Someone sent me a recipe for making Wendy's ice cream.  I can't remember if it was Margot or Maryanne.  Anyway today I tried it and ...

  My friend Jean's husband and son took these pictures of the Chips Fire--they are just now letting people into the area.      ...

Meagan had this picture along with other new ones of Keira on Facebook. So cute.     I have felt yucky all week.  Went in to see th...

Today was so frustrating.  Who knew my eyes were getting so old they cannot do fine work anymore?  I was shortening some skirts (a simple pr...

It is beautiful, sunny and clear here for now.  I should go back to the lake each day it has been so warm. Last night I finally caught up ...

Last night I watched "Bye, Bye Love" which was a sort of comedy about three divorced Dads and how they passed the children back an...

In my decluttering I found this dress I made back in 57 or 58.  Bill, my boyfriend, was a Helicopter pilot in the Navy and was overseas fi...

The last two days I have been decluttering my house and I ache all over!!!  But I feel good because decluttering looks so good!  I threw a...

It is that time of year again--cool mornings and how I love my new wool sox from Costco.  Eventually I wear through the bottoms but it will ...

Greg T said from the pulpit that I looked 10 years younger today and he wondered what was different in my life.  It was just that I had fina...

My house is on the market and when and if it sells I am headed for Orem to live with my sister Jeanne, at least until I decide something els...

As that cute little head peeked up over the deck I should have had a camera.  Raccoons are so cute. I don't know why I got up at 4 AM ...

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...