Announcement

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The deal is done. We closed escrow yesterday. I am now the homeowner of the hilltop cottage on Cabrillo Circle! I got such a great price and interest rate that my mortgage payment is the same as my rent was. But I had to pinch pennies so hard to close this deal.....you might not expect extravagant gifts from me for Christmas this year.
Now I have plumbing to improve, wiring to re-wire, fences to tear out, trees to prune, windows to replace, furniture to buy, remodelers to contact, grading and cement work, a deck to build, ........oh and I need a chimney sweep. A whole new set of problems I am so lucky to have. Ohhhh, and I also need to make a special bed for Quincy when he comes to visit. love Grandma

October 2010

Hi Quincy!
I had a great weekend. First I got to go to my friend's birthday party. Her name is Nona Seech. she is 90 years old!!!! I am very lucky to have such a fun friend to play with. We had a marvelous Italian dinner out on the patio with delectible food, accordian music, and lots of fun people. Then on sunday, I drove up to the desert to see Auntie Chet because she was serving pizza at a really fun music festival in Joshua Tree. Her friend Megan's mom was there also. We had a fun time enjoying the summer-like warmth, bluegrass music, and groovy people. Here we are celebrating "pizza gypsy mother and daughters", We opened a bottle of bubbly for the occasion.

End of August

Hi Quincy
I'm back at school now. Summer seems to be ending. Cool weather is back. aunt Chuck and Griffin visited last weekend. We went to the zoo. I bought a membership, so you and I can go sometime soon. My friend Brian and i went for a hike today on palomar mountain. We hiked 6 miles, saw a lot of birds, and ate egg salad sandwiches. I love you. grandma

Summer!!!!

Hi Quincy. I've had lots of fun in July. I got invited on a surprize motorcycle trip. My friend Matt drives fast by many beautiful places and this is what i see from the back of a motorcycle. This time Big Sur, Monterrey, Yosemite, Sonora Pass...and more. Sorry Aunt Chuck, we wanted to go to San Francisco/Marin County but that put us on a different time line. We are planning another time for that trip.

More fun in July. I got to visit my friend Ann who was staying up in San Clemente. Here we are enjoying our dinner on San Clemente pier.

I am soooo excited for your visit here next week. See ya then!! Love Grandma

Hi Quincy , I've been busy in my garden. SEE I CAN grow stuff!!

We have a family of sextuplets at my school. Here are four of them having their speech lesson with my friend Isabel.

I like to go for hikes. My friend and I were out hiking in Escondido last week and saw this TARANTULA spider! Hope you are learning lots of new things. I love you. Grandma

Hi quincy

I had a great weekend. Great grandma and I went to lunch. I found more interesting ways to cook zucchini. I visited the abominable snowman in Ranchita. I had your uncles Gunnar, Rich, and Tyson over for Swiss chicken, mashed potatoes, and (you guessed it) zucchini and yellow crookneck squash from my garden. Oh, and Cicely, I tried a new recipe for flourless chocolate mocha mousse cake. It was the greatest! Have a good week. love you....grandma

Hi Quincy

I just had a wonderful time attending a conference in Monterey. I went for walks along the coast and saw seals long the beach. I had dinners and wine tasting with a couple of fellow speech pathologists (see us with our plates in front of us). When I got home, I was called to a girlfriend get-together with old high school friends (there I am next to my friend Brenda in purple). Friends are the best thing next to grandchildren! I love you. your grandma

Hi Quincy! We had company for Easter. Aunt Chuck, Cousins Sarah, Bob, and Griffin came to visit. You see I made a birthday cake for Aunt Chuck. It doesn't look like your mom's cakes, but it tasted good. Your uncles and great grandma also came for dinner. We had some fun days walking on the pier and going for picnics. Griffin and I went to see the movie "how to train your dragon". It was great fun and Griffin wore his 3-D glasses all week. They left today to go camping in the Anza Borrego desert. The days are turning long and warm here. love you, Grandma

Hi Quincy. I'm missing you since I arrived back in Vista. We really had a good time making Easter Eggs. We got to walk to the park almost every day. I especially like the picture of you when you asked to go on such a cold day,and then you fell asleep! I really liked that you came and woke me up each morning to tell me the "tun" was shining. We had a good time eating our meals together and watching T.V. I especially liked our popcorn and cracker parties on grandma's bed. You are such a big boy and so much fun. I think we will have many more good times together. I will see you again in the summer. love grandma

Quincy,

Valentine's day weekend

Hi Quincy

I don't have many pictures....I just figured out that I CAN download photos on my school computer, so here we go. I had a wonderful weekend. One of the things I got to do was visit my friends Ann and Zack. They rented a cottage up at Crystal Cove in Laguna Beach. It is an old beach community with cottages built in the 1920's and 30's that have not been allowed to change since 1939. It is now a State park. The coastline is a beautiful underwater park with tidepools and such. The state has renovated 26 of the old cottages and rent them out. There is a great restaurant where I enjoyed a breakfast with my friends while looking out at the beach and ocean. I was especially fascinated with some of the old cottages that have not been renovated yet and took some pictures of them. I miss you and am thinking of planning a visit soon. love grandma

New years Day

Spent the New Years day with Aunti "Chet" (Jessica). We hiked 12 miles through Santa Isabel Preserve. I love that I can get jessica to go out and walk! Then we enjoyed a Sushi dinner afterwards. We were BEAT. Happy New Year! Grandma