Chris and I are back from Los Angeles and I have lots of photos to blog. But for today I present you with a weird hairdo from Venice Beach. This was my favorite of all the places I got to see. Many thanks to my friend Julie who drove up from San Diego to see me and then drove all day long on Sunday to show me as much of LA as possible!
This is the last post for a while. Chris and I are on our way to LA for a few days. Chris has a conference for work and I am spending time with Julie, who has been my good friend since 7th grade. She is driving up from San Diego and staying at our hotel. Ben will be home holding down the fort as well as Megan, who is coming home from North Carolina, the same day we are leaving. (No wild parties you two!!!) -just kidding!
My father in law had a favorite hobby. After retirement , he devoted a lot of time to wood working and turned the rec room in his basement into a wood shop. He also liked clever jokes. He would go to the doctor’s and hand the nurse a little container and ask her if she would like his stool sample.
This week’s weird object friday post is dedicated to Chris’s dad; Roy John.
We have been spending a lot of time lately with Chris’ mom Nikki. May has been a difficult month for our family. Last Saturday, Chris’ dad died. He had been in the hospital, the first three weeks of May and his doctors were doing a lot of tests to determine whether he could have an operation to fix the leaky valve of his heart. Sadly, he was not healthy enough for the operation. He was home for one week before he died.
Nikki told me that during the last week of Roy’s life, they spent a lot of time together just sitting on the patio and enjoying their beautiful yard.
Chris took today off from work and we spent the day with his mom, helping her out with this and that. I took these pictures while we were over there.
Simone is staying with us again as Megan is taking a class at The Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She and Rikki are inseparable.
I came back a few minutes later and discovered a kitty jumble.
Rikki does make a very soft pillow.
Chives are one of the easiest perennial herb plants to put in a garden. They come back year after year without any pampering from the gardener. Their mild onion flavor is especially tasty when you use little snippits on top of the sour cream that tops a baked potato.
As you can see, The flower that blooms looks like a small lavender pom pom. Be sure to cut away some of the flowers every now and then, if you want a tender supply of chives handy through out the summer.
Did you know that chives should be planted near rose bushes because their odor discourages aphids?
Rikki wants to go outside. Everytime we have tried to let him out he starts munching on poisenous plants. So, Ben and I googled cat leash and found the “Come with me kitty harness and bungee leash” I kid you not, it is really named this.
We have visions of a happy kitty that we take for long walks. So, off we go. NOT. All he wants to do is stay in one spot and mindlessly graze on the grass.
Here is a nice picture of Ben, “walking” with Rikki.