Friday, January 30, 2009

You Oughta Be in Pictures



Click on photos to enlarge. :) This could be a Gap advertisement!

When all else fails.....
[the two professional photos were taken at Old Town by my son, Mike Harris. http://www.ffphotog.com/]





Wednesday, January 28, 2009

A Long Day's Journey into Night

My granddaughter and Simon..watching Lady & the Tramp

My son and DIL left their suburban home to head for PDX [Portland airport] and hop a plane for Oakland. They flew into Oakland because they will end up in Petaluma, which is closer to the Oakland Airport. Anyhoo. Due to snow and bumper to bumper traffic, they missed their flight. Four hours later, they do get on a plane and make it to Oakland.

They haul the grand kids to the rental place, put their car seats and bags into rental van...and on their way out of the rental place parking lot...Jenn gets hit. Fender bender. Get out of that rental van and into another. Ethan is developing the croup.

So now it is bumper to bumper traffic from East Bay to Sac. They stop and eat. By the time they get here...it is 9pm. Ethan is worse. They take him to the ER. They get home at midnight.

The upside? Elaina was so happy to see me. I got the biggest hug ever and we enjoyed eating popcorn and watching a movie together. She was perfectly "at home" here. Ethan is contagious so we had to cancel our play date with Sac kids. He's still feeling poorly today.

Onward and upward I say!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Winter Fruit and Flowers

Stanley loves flowers..even fake ones.
Flowers are budding in January!

Flowers are here in January.



It was so warm, I had to water our red maple tree.



These orange's are ripe for picking..I'll wait and let my grandkids do it!
More reasons I love living in Sacramento!
[update: I was just sitting outside on my back patio...and a baby skunk came running just right in front of me. He/she looked to be about 4 months old. I held my breath and she scurried on by and into our backyard. This is one of the joys of living close to the river.]