74. Trips, Old Times and an Itty Bitty Book Lite

It is a blustery day in Tepusquet Canyon, it isn't cold just windy.  The kind of day that usually blows the cover off of the hot tub and sends leaves scattering.  Bob is working on the fence for Maggie again, anxious to finish the job.  It is going to be so sweet with the little quail and their top knots running across the top.  I can hear the e-z up thumping against the house...just as I thought...Bob hurried in to ask for assistance in taking it down before it ended up in OZ. We definitely need to think about a patio cover of some inexpensive kind.  I don't want the plants that are used to protection and the bent willow furniture to experience the elements any more than necessary.

 Our excursion to Monterey was just great.  It is always a trip down memory lane for Bob as they lived there during the war.  His daddy, Cotton, was a cook in the Army and spent the whole time cooking on the base there, so  Bob and his mom could live nearby.  They lived for a while in the Sea Breeze Motel in Pacific Grove where the Monarch butterflies migrate.  It was a wonderful time for them in spite of the circumstances.  The Asilomar over looks Half Moon Bay where they would play with balsa airplanes.  The planes came with a big rubber band and a stick for launching  them into the wind and out to sea where the plane would catch an air current that would then return the it to their feet like a wind powered boomerang!  We passed where the little corner grocery store used to be where they bought their Christmas tree that made the cottage smell like sardines.  We marked the spot where Bob up-chucked a pear because of the flu.  He has never willingly eaten another pear. 

We ate our fill of clam chowder at Kokomo's on the pier and grinned later with warm pleasure as we walked arm in arm in the rain.  We drove by the house on Pearl St. with an ocean view that we almost bought for $18,000 and each gave a heavy sigh.  Memory Lane behind us we decided that we needed some mindless entertainment and the Asilomar doesn't even have radios in the rooms so we headed for the movie theater in Pacific Grove.  We saw RED the new Bruce Willis film.

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/red/10020540/main
If you love Bruce Willis like we do, you will really enjoy it.  Helen Mirren is just fabulous!  Check you brain at the door and sit back and love it!

Years ago my car was a turquoise and black 1955 Plymouth Belvedere. Probably my favorite car ever.  We were in Los Angeles and Bob said "Check it out, Sharon, someone likes your car."  I looked and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were looking and giving us two thumbs up from the car next to us.  I sang all the way home.  What a treat.  I received many compliments on that car but none I remember as well as that one.

When we got home at 2:30 on Monday, we promptly lost power and it stayed lost for twelve hours.  Now we had already talked for two days without television so we had quite a time finding more to talk about.  We drove around till we found the PG&E repair trucks and solved the mystery of the lost power, went to town to get Maggie and an ice cream  and then hit the sack early to read by an Itty Bitty Book Lite and be very glad the bed was soft and the book was good.