Pop's 90th Birthday 10/30/2008

For Pop's 90th, me and my three fantastic kids and MOFM's BB traveled to sunny Southern Cal....was a great day for my Pop! Top pic is a cousin . (I have a crazy female cousin who thought this cousin should marry HER even if they were first cousins...she even named her son after him...like I said, she's crazy.)

Next is one of my nieces. She's always been the beautiful cousin and that really hasn't changed. She has 3 kids, two by this husband, and 1 by the first husband. She also took on husband #2's 5 kids... they have a great life in

NoCal with lots of land and stuff....

Next is me and my brothers with Pop. It was kinda tough this year, as we had my sis' funeral this time last year...

Then there's a big chunk of the family....a few didn't make it into this picture for some crazy reason...probably eating!

A great time was had by all....the next day was Disneyland for MOFM, BB, and TL and Bro...

driving defensively....

i'm extremely cautious at intersections even though i do slide through some that are 'easy', meaning i am able to see in all directions if it is indeed safe to slide through (and there isn't a cop nearby). this particular intersection, being an odd intersection as there is a stop sign 1/2 block from this 4-way stop intersection, is generally one i don't slide through, which may be the reason i'm alive right now.

i'm sitting in this intersection today, this intersection that i make a left turn from nearly every Monday through Friday of each and every week, on my way home. i look left, look right, and for some reason take my time to look left again, then just as i am deciding to pull out a red SUV runs the stop sign to my left going a minimum of 30-35 mph which seemed nearly like a flash...but i saw the driver LOOKING DOWN as she flew through the intersection, totally unaware she had just run a stop sign. it took me a few seconds to realize how closely i had come to dying! had i pulled out, had she hit me, it would have been smack in the left driver's door. dead meat.



it wasn't my time. i wouldn't have known, had it been.



life is short. live like there's no tomorrow.....

California trip

 
 
 
 

Golden Gate from Golden Gate Park

Old Army barracks, now a resort

California Poppy - you don't hardly see these anymore....

Golden Gate from highest point in San Francisco

California trip

Finally, i'm posting a few pics from the trip up inland California.

First is Jack standing next to one of the 'Tofu Castles' at Mono Lake

The Bristlecone Pines...4000 year old trees...oldest known in the world

Mount Whitney

AJ, Jack & Robert's Boston Terror

There are so many other great pics...

 
 
 
 

Company picnics....

these are the cool people i work with....if you indeed recognize any of them, don't tell them i posted their pictures on my blog....not that they'd care. in these pics at least, they're not doing anything illegal! hahahaha

hope y'all are having a fine summer! i still do need to post pics from my trip up the California mountains! so bad, so bad! bet i'll do this blogging stuff alot more in the dead of winter!

company picnic - woohoo