The Weekend Past

Just a quick update on our weekend.

Saturday, I was greeted by a call from an "unknown" female who then announced it was my daughter. It just didn't sound like Ashley and she sounded so close. I think I need to check my hearing! But we had a good conversation and caught up on each other's activities.

After the normal chores around the house, Carolyn and I headed over to the Prior's for a baby shower for 28 lb. Marcus (Devin's son). It was mostly an open house, converse a little, drop off a gift and watch Marcus easily go from adult to adult. Then we went home and enjoyed a little afternoon nap before going over to Paul Rademaker's surprise 59th birthday party around 5:30.

Paul is in my accountability group so several guys and their wives from that group were there along with others that we didn't know. Carolyn and I sat with a John and Karen eating dinner only to find out they both go to our church (Pacific Coast Church) in San Clemente and that John is an artist/landscaper/waterfall maker! He and Carolyn talked about painting our "cascada" from its current gray elephant status to a more variegated look, and John will be coming over to check it out this week. It's funny how people with various talents or needs come into your life.

Sunday, we ran into the aforementioned John on the Church patio (Karen stayed home to be with her sister) so we ended up sitting together in the service. Afterwards, Dennis Hughes asked us to join him down at the harbor as he wanted to show us something. We trailed him down to the guest dock area where he showed us the 29' Ericksen that had recently been on EBay and had sold for a reasonable price. But one needed a slip to put the boat in and those are on a waiting list. We looked at a few different length boats and it was helpful to see them in person. I think we'd prefer a 27' to 29' length boat with an enclosed keel. We'll keep looking.

Then we headed over to Wanda's after picking up some tacos for lunch. After munching down on those, we three went to the Niguel Shores art show that they hold in their community center. Carolyn continued her lucky ways by winning a small sailboat painting (prophetic?) from the raffle and then we purchased two other watercolors that the Men's Club were selling, one a picture of a cottage in Cornwall, England and the other of Mirror Lake in the Grand Tetons.

I finished up the afternoon with a little pro football while Carolyn read and napped. Then Carolyn made a wonderful Chinese dinner that was delicious and we finished up the evening with American Dream.

This coming weekend, I'm going to take Monday off and we are going up to the Tenaya Lodge just outside of Yosemite so we can easily drive into the valley and walk and photograph one of our favorite spots. We expect it to be cold and beautiful!