PEARSON FAMILY VISIT

Can you believe two post in two days.......well do not expect this all the time because my life is not that busy at the moment. It was a fun morning we met Rhonda, Steve, Jace and Bryce at the casino for breakfast. We had a nice visit and our favorite waitress and one of our oldest friends here in Corning was our waitress. Dani started telling the boys about Rhon when she was a kid, needless to say they loved hearing the stories.
After we got home it was kick back times. The boys found the "Where's Waldo" books that Steven had given me years ago..... the book are older than the boys, but I did not tell them that. When the Pearson's left they were taking the boys to Chico to Bidwell park. Bryce has baseball practice at 3:00PM so they will not be in Chico long.

Here's wishing everyone a good day........B

21ST Corning Olive Festival

We went to the Olive Festival for a short while, we walked around and checked out some of the booths. Of course we had to go to the Corning Chamber of Commerce booth and buy some raffle tickets. This year there are three drawings, fifty fifty raffle, Merchant donations, and a special donation from Chip MC Coy of a Patio Bistro table . I will accept any they choose to give me. It could have been our timing but there did not seem to be a lot of people there, we might have been to early or to late.
The weather was nice and cool for the festival but I bet Gary Strack wish it was a little warmer since he was the first up for the dunk tank. The kids had a lot of fun dunking Gary..... come to think of it Gary looked like he was having fun too.

From there since we were out and about we went to the casino SURPRISE!!! But no surprise that they did not let us take any of there green stuff home with us.

Rhonda and family are expected here in the morning, Rhon seems to shooting for Breakfast around 9:00 am so we will see on that one. Not matter what time we will have breakfast and a good visit. The boys have to see for themselves that Popi is doing OK.

Will try to get some good Pix tomorrow so I can make another post tomorrow. Later B

WAYNE HEALING

W is starting to get anise and he has only been home 3 full days. He is doing better all the time. He has updated his blog.

Normally we would be at the Clark County Fair in Vancouver WA. Trace and Cassidy both had 2 cows each entered in the fair. Tami text me on there progress. "3RD in showmanship and good in class. No top honors this year for Trace and Cassidy. Trace's cow had best clip job." I am sure that will be back at it next year.

I have done a lot of nothing today and need to get back at it......B

HE IS HOME

Wayne called this morning around elven and said "come get me." Took my time cause you know how slow hospitals are. After seeing him yesterday I was very surprised. Now that he is home he lets me do very little for him which I guess is good.

He just updated his blog so check it out, best to get the info from "the horsed mouth" B

PAIN PAIN AND MORE PAIN

Today or I should say last night the pain started. He got very little sleep last night and then this afternoon he was trying to take a nip and I popped in for a visit. I think he will suggest I stay home tomorrow, he wants me to call around one or two by then he will know what is going on. He feels Thur will be the day he comes home.

Wayne thought it would be safe to order a tuna sandwitch for lunch, figured they could not mess that one up. Well he ate it but under protest not sure what he will try next. Maybe I can bribe hime with a couple cheeseburger tomorrow.

Since I was in Chico I HAD to go shopping and I scored big time. Liz Claiborne computer case that sells for $129. I got for $25. It even has a 10 year warranty.

Stay tuned update tomorrow.....B

8-9-10

Today was Wayne's big day, it started at O'dark 30 we arrived at Enlo Hospital for his day in surgery. I was able to stay with Wayne till it was time to get knocked out, and the show to begin. I was an hour to two hour operation. Since we had time to kill Rhonda and I went to the snack bar at the hospital and had Chicken fried steak, biscuits, gravy, tater tots and eggs.....all in Waynes honor. We talked to the Dr after the job was done and was told we could go and visit. He was a little groggy but good color and just as ornery as before. The nurse had him moving his feet and bending his knee, and Rhonda and I were amazed. Wayne was ready for a nap so he made us leave and told us to go home.
Rhonda and I had some Mother Daughter bonding time, that is right we went shopping. Hit TJ Max, Old Navy, Forever 21, and Victoria's secret. By that time Rhonda was hungry, and she wanted to go to Red Lobster, and that was the perfect choice. She got the Ultimate Feast and then we shard, just the right amount of food. Back to the Hospital to check and see how Popi is doing and he was looking even better. They had stand by the bed with a walker and take two steps up and two back, shoot he wanted to take the walker out in the hall but the would not let him do that...... wonder if he will tomorrow. Hope his night is as good as his day has been.

Do believe this will be an early night and sleep in late tomorrow morning.........or am I only dreaming? B

HOT IN THE VALLY SO HERE WE COME ARCATA

It was nice and cool on the coast, we made the trip to visit Fergie, an old school chum of Wayne's. It was fun listening to the stories of school pranks. We got there in time to go to dinner at Blue Lake casino, Alice's Restaurant, I was happy since they had Buffalo burgers. The next morning after breakfast of homemade blueberry pancakes, we introduced Fergie to Geo Caching, imagine that! One virtual was a mural in town, understand the bagel shop next to it is the best. I doubt it Fergie will ever find another cache but he enjoyed seeing what caching was all about.
Made the trip to Trinidad it is a quaint little town, I love sitting on the park bench watching the water. Fergie told us some old legends about the rocks out in the water. Guess what there was a casino in Trinidad and it was lunch time so off we go. Cher-Ae-Heights Casino was quite small there snack bar OK, but when we got our players club card we drew a card to see how much gambling money we got loaded on our new card. Wayne and I got $25. and Fergie $10.
Fergie took us to his Model Train Club. It was really interesting, and I took around 200 pix.....imagine that! The club members have put lots of work into there club.....two hours flew by before I knew it.

Guess what there is another casino in the area and it is almost lunch time so off we go to Bear River, I think I liked this casino the best, it was another small one they loaded $5. on our card for being new members. They had a nice little dinning room and on the menu was Dungeness crab sandwich I was in heaven. I would go back there just for the sandwich.

We had a great time, and Fergie spoiled us with corn chowed for a lite dinner, and in the morning before we hit the road he fixed up Blueberry muffins....yum-yum.

Glad to say an uneventful trip home and the closer to home the hotter it got and is. All for now B