Happy Days In New Zealand!

I just had to share this fabulous cake my sister in law, Violet made!! Wow, very impressive!
She lives in New Zealand and loves to bring a little slice of America to the folks there. She runs a little coffee shop cafe and she has become quite the barista cafe owner over there!
She will decorate for all the American holidays and the people just get the biggest kick out of it!
If you want to read more about all she does in New Zealand go to:  Violets.Coffee

Her husband, Alan, is Black Thunder Racing NZ and you have seen me post when they come to town to race at the Bonniville Salt Flats.

The Allman Brothers Band

Everyone knows their music, you can all sing along,

 It's the best classic rock you can get...but do you know the whole story about how they came about, how they hit the heights and then crashed and burned, how they lost their leader, Duane, but little brother, Gregg, carried on?

I do.

I just finished reading My Cross to Bare, by Gregg Allman. It was a good read, my sister told me about it, and I picked it up and devoured it while Charlie was at the raceshop the past couple nights. The only time I can read is when it is quiet in the house, no tv, no radio. I have to have silence. So needless to say I have not been able to read many books in the past 23 years! My house is filled with books, one day I will be able to read them again. I love them, I have my favorites, I have all the Stephen King you could ask for. I love autobiographies. My sister would read true crime, about all the serial killers and all that, I could not do it, but we do share a love of SK though! But me, I turned to biographies, I like to see into someones world, how they lived their life and learn from their mistakes.

I loved reading Gregg's book, I was amazed at the people he met, he even hung out with Stevie Ray Vaughan (my idol) for a time!!! Gregg was heavy in the bottle and Stevie was getting sober, so they didn't hang out long together. But Gregg said he was amazed at the talant Stevie had. Love that!

If you love music and you love autobiographies, it is a light read, not too heavy, but it is a good look at what happens when fame and fortune finally comes to those who work their ass of for it. How a person can crawl through hell and come out happy on the other side.....

Fail!

Well, we were going to go to The Palms restaurant in Caesars Palace for our dinner  (I had a 50.00 gift card from american express) but I was still full from lunch and my husband was not feeling well at all, so we ended up coming home. We will go out some other time!
It is not a big deal any longer as I go out to eat all the time. When I was younger, I loved my anniversary and birthday because it meant a real nice fancy restaurant, now days I am more into saving money, so I was happy to just come home and save the money. As long as we are together, I am happy!

Happy Anniversary! #23

I decided to re-post our 20th anniversary video since it can now be posted with the music!
We were married 23 years ago today at Harveys Hotel in Lake Tahoe...



We have dinner reservations for tonight at a new place..I will review it here tomorrow for you...see you all then!
Here is to 100 more years of happy times with lots of love and kisses!

Wickles!

Have you ever had something so good you just can't stand it?? I have been craving pickles, because it was so hot here and I crave salty stuff when it is hot out. Chips and salsa, olives by the can load, pickles, blt's....yeah, the saltier the better...well, while I was at the walmart I came across this jar of pickles that said Wickles, the wickedly delicious pickle! I thought oh dang, I have to try these!

Oh My!! I cannot stop eating them, I snack on two or three every hour!! I am going back to buy a case of these Wickles!!! Fabulous Pickles!! Give them a try, you won't be dissappointed!!

More pics!

We had driven from orange county (newport beach) to south bay county (redondo beach) via the pch highway, it was a gorgeous drive, we stopped along the way to take some photos, it has been awhile since I saw the ocean! But I was glad to come home to my 100 degree weather, it was far too cold in california for me!

I had my rock star glasses on and my rockstar hair too!

Bolsa Chica



Bolsa Chica

On the Redondo pier

His name is Malcolm!

A little weekend getaway!

We ran off to California to watch the Rangers play the Angels. I got to see Napoli play! I wore my jersey and Charlie wore his jersey, I wonder if people try to figure out what player was Deguevara!! haha! Maureen got him a personalized shirt one year....so his jersey says Deguevara on the back!
Joe and Mary went to fridays game with us and then saturday we went to visit christy and had lunch with her then back to the ball game for saturdays game, just me and charlie. We had a fun little getaway....

They gave away free hats!

 We got to be part of a Guiness world record for the most cowboy hats worn in a location, everyone put their hat on and we had to keep them on for 10 minutes, it was cool to see, then the official Guiness guy declared it a record, 40,000 fans had hats on! Wow, we are famous!

The sea of black hats!

Napoli!