Nice beach house

Beautiful Trek deck, clear plastic "fence" so we had an unobstructed view of the whole
beach  from Montery to Capitola.  Master bedroom faces ocean...We never had this before.  Had a
brand new Queen bed.  All other beds at back of house...maybe not so good for those who
liked the Wright house bedroom setup.  Sleeps 11 easily not  counting couches in living room.
2 twins, a twin and a bunk.  A murphy bed in one room and a roll a way bed. 

Great idea, has an extra heavy screen that cranked down part or half way during 

bright sunlight in master bedroom.  Brand new carpets, kitchen appliances, stainless steel.

Room for 5 cars.  Only 2 bathrooms, so not the place for us.

Beach birthday

I really wanted to go stay at this house, but it didn't work out.

Maybe our anniversary.

Columbus day camping

A nice fun weekend at TT

We had 2 extra trailers for the Cheims and Annette.

They did all the delicious meals and we enjoyed it all!!!!

our last brunch
Robert took pictures
They all brought their bikes so we had biking, pool,, pee wee golf, racket ball, badminton, horseshoes.
and a lot of ipad!!!!!

a visit to Danny's grave

A nice day to visit Danny's grave....we hadn't been there since Dad/Grandpa

isn't driving.   So Elizabeth offered to take us and make it a lunch date with Annette.

Julie

Annette and Elizabeth fixing the flowers

pretty flowers

We said a rosary
We promise to come back on his anniversary...xo

We all had lunch breakfast at Denny's...great food.
ALL the Cheim's except Robert, M & D and Annette

the goodies continue....

Annette sent dinner via Robbie tonight.
Unbelievably good...pork chops with gravy, mashed potatoes
broccalli and we had leftover burnt almond cake.
yummy

another anniversary celebration...

The Cheim family brought dinner over....chicken marsalla and rice, salad, rolls and burnt almond cake and ice cream.  Delicious with plenty of leftovers.

Our anniversary today....

 We celebrated our anniversary hanging around helping a little with Mary and Michael's yard sale.

It was a lot of fun.  Mary started out the day wearing this old t shirt with our wedding photo

on it, until it warmed up and she put it on the back of this office chair for all to see.

SO.....The party is over everything cleared out except the things to be sold next weekend.

 Michael is taking this to Uncle Bob's for another yard block sale on his street next weekend.  There was a lot of stuff left over.

Clothes didn't sell too well, but t shirts shorts and shoes went fast.

Second load for second yard sale.

An unusual ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!

We had  great time starting out by Annette bringing over Happi House Chicken for lunch on Saturday in celebration of our anniversary.

Then today Bob stopped by with Togo's for dinner and Fred and Cathleen for a visit.

For sure want to have many more anniversaries.

xo

from July 22, 2007

Labor day..

Invited Bob over for dinner and he brought it and cooked it.
Delicious. He and John played cribbage with Dad and then went over to look at Fred's tractor.
Nice day.

years ago....

usOn or around my birthday every year we would all go to the Garden City BBshop quartet annual presentation. We loved it.
In 1999 my darling husband gave me a special valentine!!!

2/13/99
At 7 p.m. Friday night 4 very nattily dressed men showed up on our doorstep for a special singing valentine for me, from your Dad. They of course were from the Garden City Chorus.

Was I ever pleased. I recognized two of the fellows as actors in the "Dial M for Music...the lead detective...Mike Mallett and his girlfriend...listed as a "special guest" the silly guy dressed like an ugly girl. Their quartet was called the Town Square Harmonizers and what a beautiful job they did.

They stood in front of us in the living room and sang,
Let me call you sweetheart
I love you truly
Red Hot Mama (the one they did during the show last Saturday)

They had beautiful harmony and I told them they made my ears reverberate...they knew what I meant. Much better up close.
There was a gal with them who took a lot of pictures and they gave me a bouquet of flowers and a nice valentine card from Dad.

We were so enthusiastic and pleased and after we told them we had been listening to them for 8 years and had brought 36 people to hear them last Saturday, they didn't charge us a dime. Acted like we did THEM a favor!!!
We loved it.

Wish you could have ALL been here to hear them!!!

a senior experience...

Today was a day to run errands....hair, pick up RX at Kaiser and deposit books and magazines at the Senior Center in Willow Glen. While we were there we said what the heck lets see if we can have lunch. And we did. Pretty good for $2.50 each. Breaded sole, rice and spinach , bean salad, milk and apricots. They had just hired a new chef and they served on real china not paper plates like they used to.

The people we sat next to were interesting. The gal next to me was a retired nurse, also was interested in genealogy and took a course there at the center just like I did....however not same year or teacher. The guy next to dad was Hispanic and owned property in Morgan Hill which was in limbo because of city laws and taxes.

dancing....out of the past!!!

this is what it would look like at a big hoedown

everything we wore matched....those were the fun days!!!!!
at Sparks annual square dancing convention 1976

square dancing, round dancing, hoe downs, lessons 4 and 5 days a week, dancing every week end, traveling all over California going to dances, camping with the Hillbillies, Thanksgiving weekend at Sparks, Nevada, where we danced all day and night for 3 days!!!
We still agree that we have never had so much fun in our life!!!!

Dancing...

We danced for over 20 years....first ball room, then square dancing and round dancing. We learned to ballroom dance at the Elk's club here in San Jose....started square dancing with Ken and Audrey Oburn (Audrey is alive and still square dancing!!!) and round dancing with Clark and Mackie Smith (both gone)......we danced our way up to the Golden Slippers!!!

This week Cynthia put on this little Utube movie "Double your pleasure" a cute jitterbug number.
Click Here: Check out "YouTube - Double Your Pleasure"

and it brought back good memories of our dancing days...especially round dancing....a fair enough example on the following youtube presentation.
Click Here: Check out "YouTube - Buttons & Bows square and round dance club"

Here we are at Asilomar at a square dance festival. Danced with some great people, Canadians, wonderful dancers and lots of fun. I think I was on the verge of getting Mononucleosis about that time. One of the guys, as a hobby, diagnosed illnesses by manipulating your feet and he told me I had something wrong with my liver!!! By golly, I did...within a month I was terribly ill with mono!!!!

the square dancing bug...

This picture of George and I was taken in 1976 at a square dancing convention in Sparks, Nevada. We had been dancing for 6 years.

Early in our marriage we took lessons in ballroom dancing (in fact we met at a 20-30 dance!!) At the urging of my sister Naine, we started square dancing.....then round dancing.

Get a load of the bouffant hair and everything matching!!!!!

What fun we had!!!!!!


We were square dancers for over 16 years and enjoyed every minute of it. We began dancing in 1970 and stopped when I got mononucleosis, then stopped totally in 1986, when I broke my hip falling out of our motor coach, of all things!!

I made almost all of my dresses and George's ties to match and saved leftover material.
In 1998 my girls decided to make me a little quilt of some of the material I used. I really love it and it goes every place I go.

It is signed 9.18.98 xxxooo The Girls.