Friday August 25

Oooooooh, I like that word, peccadillos, had to look up the meaning but I like how it told off the tongue. I am giving out a Spanish accent worth the double lls produced as a y. Not sure if that is correct or not, but it sounds good in my head. I like the meaning too. A small sin without much consequence!

Greetings Fine Friends

I am running out of cutesy greetings. Will have to work on that.

So glad to be home in Lala land. No terrible traffic and peace and quiet. I can get back to my normal routine of sleeping in and lazing about with coffee in my jammies in the am. Liz soon this will be you!

Ann and Shel glad you had fun. The place we live is a beautiful place to come during a hot summer. It stays cool here and there are fabulous redwood hikes and virtually empty beaches. Hint Hint.

Well weight is a disaster. Up to 138. On this trip I would eat a protein bar and yogurt and by 5 was starving so I ate pita chips. Dinner was often on the late side so whaddaya do? Learned a good spice for blacked tilapia. Its Paul Proudome's blacked red fish spice mix. Should have brought some home but maybe will order it or find a substitute. I am sure there was a bunch of butter in that fish too however.

Got a roast chicken last night and sugar snap peas. Back to protein and veggies. No more airplane snacks which are disgusting. don't know why I ate them.

Dogs are fine. The old one was very restless last night and I finally gave her a little dose of pain med and held her. She is not long for this world but not quite finished I think. Pet sitter was great and took care of the dogs like they were own. She even cleaned out our refrigerator which had some science experiments in there.Great because we are getting a new fridge next week.

Oxidental college has a beautiful campus and niece will do well there. Its all up in the hills so lots of up and down fitness. It was so fun to see all these beautiful young people laughing and making friends. Niece is in a sort of orientation program relating to social justice and focusing on events in Charlottesville.

Joey hope things can calm down for you. As the saying goes "you deserve a break today".

Shel, get rid of that mountain of papers as fast as you can! They tend to breed like rabbits. I have such a pile with my mom's estate.

Oh well, hoping for some quality bathroom time to reduce vacation weight.

Good to be back with my peeps. Diane S

Hmmm ... redwood hikes and beaches. Hmmmm.....

And not too hot. I haven't spent any time in CA's national parks so I have started to poke around the possibilities, esp the Redwoods.

Thanks Diane. I often end up in my jammies until noon now when I am WFH (but not relaxing).