The Clam Bake

Every year, Sperry Road has an annual clam bake.   This is the road my husband lived on, when he was growing up.   His mom still lives there.   We have attended this clam bake together every year since the late 1970’s, although Chris remembers going to it as a young child in the 1960’s.   It takes place across the street from his mom’s house on a piece of land that is rented out to The Geauga Bowmen Archery Club, and the property is owned by the family that lives next to the archery range.

This picture was taken at a weird angle by my son Ben, who I think was trying to be artistic.   The back of the head to the left is my husband Chris, That’s me in the middle, and on the right is sombody who I’m not going to name because I want Margaret to guess who it is!   By the way Margaret, he says hi to you and Miles & suggested that I use his photo for weird object friday, but I decided that I didn’t want to wait that long!

Here is another photo of our mystery man, along with Chris.   These two have been friends for 50 years!   Click HERE Margaret for another clue, but I know you don’t really need it.

Venice Beach

	This is a photo of my good friend Julie. We have been friends since we were in the 7th grade.  On sunday, we started our whirlwind tour with a trip to Venice Beach. It was my favorite stop.
Venice Beach was created to be a copy of venice Italy and the 16 miles of man made canals were originally dug in 1904.
	This is a picture of a typical residential street.  The average home price last year was $857,500.   Wow, that is a lot of money.  Especially when you consider that many of these homes are not very big!
Here we are on Venice Beach!

      I used to take this walk with my friend Jean about once a week.   Even in winter, we would brave the weather and go walking.  Unfortunately, It’s gotten more difficult to find the time since I started working again.   Today we went for our walk to Patterson’s Fruit Farm and Orchard Hills Park. It takes about 20 minutes, (mostly uphill) to get there.   Orchard Hills used to be a golf course which was owned by the Patterson family.   They recently gifted it to the Geauga Park District, which I think is quite wonderful.   Click HERE for more information on Orchard Hills Park. Also, it is interesting to note that straight ahead, in these pictures is Lake Erie!

Hey Margaret, do you remember drawing this???

My friend Margaret has tagged me. This means that I need to fill out a survey. A fellow blogger tagged her and so on and so on. Ben is very excited that his mom is going to do this so here it goes.



4 JOBS I’VE HELD:
Ohio Sheet Music (selling sheet music)
Fotomat (processing & selling film)
Safiro Too (owner of a jewelry kiosk at the mall)
Fairmount Center for the Arts (office help)




4 MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER:
Hitchcock’s Notorious
Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Bunuel’s Exterminating Angel
Invasion of the Body Snachers (1956)




4 PLACES I HAVE BEEN:
Washington D.C.
Baltimore, MD.
Toronto, Canada
Virginia Beach




4 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
University Heights, Ohio
Wooster, Ohio (college)
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Chesterland, Ohio




4 TV SHOWS I WATCH:
Twin Peaks, the complete series (I own it)
Lost (It’s coming back soon)
House
General Hospital (it’s hard to break a habit started in 1963)




4 PEOPLE WHO EMAIL ME REGULARLY:
no one really!




4 FAVORITE FOODS:
Lobster
Chocolate Mousse
Bagels, Lox & cream cheese
Sushi




4 PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE:
Somewhere warm
without snow
by a beach
I’m not picky




4 THINGS I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO:
Ben graduating college
Megan graduating college
springtime
my next netflix




4 PEOPLE TO TAG:
Ben
Megan
My Dad
???
(But I think I had better ask them first)

Christmas Eve