Today, we went to the optometrist. It was my turn to get new clear glasses. Last time, I got new sunglasses (prescription, of course). The doctor said everything looked OK except that my old clear glasses were out of date.
I picked out a pair of frames that are really lightweight. This image is of some of the many frames that were available. Click on the image to enlarge.
Marooned in California. Special dinner – Pork Fajitas – served as comfort food while we have to be here.
Here I am on the roof of the “Albatross” sawing off a dead palm frond. I also sawed off three palm berry pods. Our eventual plan is to have four of the palms removed from the property, but that won’t happen until next summer when some new financial arrangements will be made.
In the meantime, we have to make trips to take care of some of the maintenance items. Verna removed most of a prickly pear cactus that fell over since we last were here. It’s a pain for now, because we have to remove ourselves from our beautiful Arizona home to attend to matters here.
We traveled to the California House today to do some business there. While we were on the road, I snapped this image of Bob driving us there being helped by lookouts Bay Bay and Cabela. Cute. Click on the image to enlarge.
This month marks the fifth anniversary of our Food Blog, a repository for weekend cuisine and other appetizing things. We originally established the blog as a place to discuss weekend menus and post the results with an image or two.
Image: Chicken Saltimboca with pasta, broccoli and marinara sauce
Before we retired, we used the VernaBob chatroom to communicate with each other while I was at work. Many of those chat transcripts appeared in the posts prior to 10/01/2009, the date I retired – and retired the chatroom, although it still works if needed.
The image above was the first meal we posted on the blog, although there is a recipe posted the same month for one of our favorite Tex-Mex chicken chile verde dishes. Click here to see the original archive for February 2008.
Some readers may recall that I missed the 64th Annual Parade due to falling on my head early the morning of the parade. Fortunately, that did not happen this morning. Verna and I walked to the parade route (about a quarter mile from home) and thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle.
Billed as the fourth largest parade event in Arizona, we witnessed the passage of some of the usual and some of the most unusual entries in the event. The American Legion Color Guard (local chapter) led the parade with a herd of Watusi Longhorn Cattle in trail. Popular character actor Wilford Brimley rode in the stagecoach along with the Riders in the Sky western music ensemble and several other “Grand Marshalls.”
Many of the classic cars we saw yesterday rode in the parade along with some we had not seen. There were bands, dancers, cowboy poets and a bunch of the local merchants and businesses that passed by. A couple of unusual entries were the Watusi Bull in a Cadillac and the “Poodle Posse” toward the end. We had fun and although we could see traces of snow on the foothills, there was no rain on our parade.
