Our tradition every “Black Friday,” is to put up the Christmas Lights. After many trips up and down the extension ladder, this is the result. Click the image to enlarge.
Bob
Catalina Panorama at Point Vicente
Verna and I loaded Bear in the car the morning of Thanksgiving Day and headed over the hill to Point Vicente. We went because when I looked at the Catalina web cam (at the isthmus) on the Internet shortly after I woke up, I could see not only the mainland, but the mountains behind. That means there would be photo-op quality visibility from Point Vicente in the direction of Catalina Island.
We walked along the path in the Interpretive Center toward the Northwest where I took the images to merge into the panorama seen above. Click to the full-size panorama.
Thanksgiving Dinner
Sliced turkey breast, mashed potatoes and turkey gravy, carrots, dressing, cranberry jelly and Brussels sprouts braised in pancetta. Everything but the jelly was homemade. Happy Thanksgiving!
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.
Yard Cleanup Day
A few years ago, we put this bench in the yard and planted morning glories next to it hoping for a shaded sitting place in the garden. Long story short: it was badly overgrown, broke the bench and had to come out today.
Click to enlarge this picture that Verna snapped today.
Cutting Down The Palm Trees
I have a spot in the corner of the yard where about four or five California Fan Palms – a.k.a. ‘weeds,’ started up behind the umbrella tree growing there. I was afraid that they would grow to the point of uprooting the block walls, so I decided to start removing them. The first part of this is to remove the top of the tree, which I did on this past Monday.
I went out today to fill the bird feeders today and I noticed that the trees I just topped had continued growing at an astounding rate! The core of one of the trees that was flush cut on Monday with the chain saw grew about six inches in four days. Remarkable!
Like I said, weeds.
Click image for a closer look.
A Wonderful Meal
The contents of this plate fed both of us on Sunday and enough leftovers for a couple of meals during the week. It’s roasted rib-eye steak (bone in) with Danish-style twice-baked potatoes (see recipe). Click image to enlarge.
