We had a busy weekend, full of fun stuff. Saturday we went up to Arcadia to the Arboretum for a concert in the park featuring the California Philharmonic. This weekend it was Andrew Lloyd Webber Meets Puccini (hey, I didn’t name the concert!). The music. We went with our friend Kyra and her parents, who…

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Sometimes it’s just too cool to be living in Southern California! Today we went to the beach (in Long Beach) and took some photos of all the activity. A sandcastle contest was underway, with some pretty spectacular efforts, including Mount Rushmore (which I mistook for Devil’s Tower) and a castle encircled by a dragon. As…

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We had a great time last night, celebrating the 4th at our friend Barbara’s house in Pasadena. She lives just above the Rose Bowl where they have an annual orgy of fireworks. This year it was called AmericaFest, a day-long carnival that culminated in a huge fireworks show. We didn’t want to actually pay money…

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Moveon.org was asking everybody to go see Fahrenheit 911 during its opening weekend (that would be this past weekend). Being good little Democrats, we tried to oblige and were met with sold out theaters. All shows all day Saturday. All shows all day Friday, too. We didn’t even try Sunday. Sort of a good news/bad…

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It’s been quite a week, as the nation mourned the passing of former President Reagan. I never voted for the guy, but in spite of myself was often swept away by his ability to speechify and generally charm and disarm us all. God bless him, he did have a sense of humor about himself and…

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…of 2004, anyway. Chuck was feeling pretty darned good (he can swallow again! Woohoo!!) so we decided to have some folks over for a holiday weekend barbeque. The weather was fabulous (in the mid-upper 70’s) and thanks to our recent acquisition of a Mosquito Magnet we were pretty much bug-free. (Since we have a pond…

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