We started our week being witnesses to a murder! Murder in the Cathedral Opera I should add...it was amazing and reminded me of when we were in Italy on a gondola sailing by the Opera and hearing it all in Italian....incredible....and a very good story about how history is not always reality....like most of our history books describe.....
Monday we had to go to La Jolla for a meeting with the doctor....the ride back was bumper to bumper.....because of this little disruption......but it was fun watching it soar 50 ft in the air!
Steve and I got a tour of Dylans gardening progress....his apricots are growing!
Zucchini coming right along!
A little Cactus action!
Baby snap peas....GiGi - so good to eat them right off the vine!
Pumpkins!
Steve and I delighted in this yummy lunch time getaway!
Got to go Thrifting...this week toys were the big score!
....and I wanted a broken cukoo clock to paint all white and I scored this one for $25.00, german made and numbered and works but just needs a pendulum. Rocky barks at it and they boys and I say cuckoo cuckoo all day when we hear it....I just don't think I have the heart to paint it as it is so close to perfect.....I am bidding on the pendulum to complete it.....my MaMa Auten had a cuckoo clock and I loved listening to it. Years ago when we went to Germany I wanted to get one for my parents and with the language barrier the shopkeepers could not understand what I wanted....finally one very lovely German man said to me...Oh! Der Cukoo! and I said yes, yes! Do I drug it back across the Atlantic for my parents to enjoy. I paid a fortune for it $$$$ and I have to say this one was a super bargain!
I actually cooked this week!!!!! Enchiladas for everyone!
We went to a lovely dinner at my niece Amy's who lives in a downtown condo that Adam used to live it....oh, if they only lived there at the same time!!! We had yummy and delish Bloody Marys...
Didn't she make the most amazing stirrers! Hello!
....and then we went rooftop and grilled....so so good...after our fun dinner they headed to the Padre game and we headed home...poor Steve just can't sit or stand for very long!
Sadly, a good friend of ours father passed away and we drove to Huntington Beach for the service....this is only a portion of all the wreaths and flowers that were present...
Our friends dad started a trucking business back in the 50's and grew it into a huge business....a true American Success Story....it was so humbling that many of the trucks drove to the grave site and had black ribbons and wreaths to pay their respect....there were hundreds and hundreds of people there and we were honored to pay our respects. Note to be gory by it was a military funeral the the folding of the flag, taps being paid and the casket was stainless steel and adorned with the stations of the cross....it was truly amazing...a very Italian family and steeped in tradition and family.....me familia for sure....
And because I love my girl.....only I would help her at her semi annual toy swap meet....she is one amazing girl and such a trooper.
The week flew by.....but it was all good!
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