tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783262979849478302024-03-13T05:25:31.170-07:00ObservationsLorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.comBlogger645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-69613684548786306672017-10-15T11:24:00.000-07:002017-10-15T11:24:12.089-07:00Professor Jim Hayes Memorial Bench<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you were a Journalism major at Cal Poly, which I was, then you knew, maybe even feared (he was quite strict) and admired Professor Hayes. He was alternately a reporter, journalist and professor. He knew what he was doing.<br />
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And he impressed upon his students the need to be correct with each and every word.<br />
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On our last trip up the coast, my husband and I found his memorial bench in a beautiful spot overlooking the Pacific Ocean.<br />
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Where we sat and contemplated life for a bit.<br />
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Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-10472810117253090532017-10-13T07:59:00.000-07:002017-10-13T07:59:11.564-07:00Omakase<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our retired dentist, who we adore, treated us to lunch at Sushi Ota in Pacific Beach this summer.</div>
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We sat down at the sushi bar for omakase, which is a Japanese phrase that means "I'll leave it up to you" from the Japanese 'to entrust' (makaseru).</div>
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And we were in excellent hands.</div>
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The chef explained each dish, what to eat first and in one case to leave the bones as they would be deep-fried and served in another course!</div>
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Omakase = fabulous experience.</div>
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Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-63753162697191982982017-08-30T08:00:00.000-07:002017-08-30T08:00:56.998-07:00Downtown PortlandStart walking!<br />
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...check out the buildings, get lunch from a food truck, try on some Doc Martens, scan floors and floors of books and then buy a few, stroll the waterfront, try a restaurant, feed the ducks, people watch, there are so many ways to fill a day in Portland!<br />
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I love this shower curtain.<br />
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It was almost too pretty to be hidden away in the bathroom.<br />
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Perhaps spread out as a quilt on the bed? Tapestry on the wall? Rug on the floor?<br />
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But then it would have to compete with the rest of our hotel room in Pacific City, Oregon, with this view of Haystack Rock.<br />
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<br />Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-24823624162648138432017-08-02T14:34:00.000-07:002017-08-02T14:34:54.740-07:00Oregon CoastSo different than what we experience in San Diego.<br />
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Less crowded, primitive, often bordered by trees and thick forests, haystacks appear in the distance when the fog lifts.<br />
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After a wet winter, 7 inches of rain in the desert, and many years of drought ---- the wildflowers were out in abundance.<br />
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Even though we got up at 6 am to hit the road, there were many visitors that beat us to it.<br />
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Which is why these first shots are of people taking pictures of the flowers that we were eager to see.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 9pt;">Today I am featuring a guest post from my college friend Molly, who </span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 9pt;">met her future husband at a bike race in the desert, the Furnace Creek 508. He is Dutch, so she ended up in The Netherlands and is now a naturalized citizen of that country. Over the years I have received amazing pictures and heard funny stories about life overseas, here is just one:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last weekend I had back-to-back 50th birthday parties, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night. Over here 50th birthday parties are a big thing. People regularly rent or borrow mannequins (picture the windows of Nordstroms) and set the mannequin in the honoree's front yard, specially dressed in clothes that are related to the relationship of the people setting the mannequin and the honoree, in our case it was running clothes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We aim to make our mannequin a spitting image of the honoree, complete with wig and a sort of Halloween-looking mask, except it is a grandma-sort of person. It is set in the birthday person’s front yard, usually accompanied by a rhyming story, written on a large white poster board or plywood that is painted white or an old sheet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is all done the evening before the honoree turns 50. Then afterwards you are invited into the honoree's house for 'a borrel' or a drink, which can turn into a drink and munchies or if you are lucky, a few drinks and lots of snacks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am part of a group of ladies who attempt to run together, about 14 or so in total. And the two gals who had 50th birthdays one day apart are both a twin, and not of each other! Strange, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway, Ilse has a twin brother Casper, and Irma has a twin sister Yvon. Both Ilse and Irma have kids about the same age, so for two evenings we partied, at different locations, with many of the same people. It was pretty funny. Most of the people did very little on the Sunday after the two parties since both parties lasted until 1 or 2 in the morning! Monday I picked up the mannequins to return them to where I rented them from, and ran into others picking up their mannequins doing the same thing. I've seen some people with as many as 7 or 8 mannequins in their front yards.<br /><o:p> </o:p><o:p><br /></o:p>By the way, when I turned 50, three of my neighbors dressed up as the Supreme's and sang during my party in our back yard, that is how crazy people can be. It was hilarious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And something else I started doing when a few of our neighbors started turning 40 and 50 was to help them celebrate their 'old year's day' or the day before they turned 40 or 50, by baking them 'oliebollen' which translates literally into oil balls. They are sort of like donuts. The Dutch eat them during New Years eve, so I applied that thought to the eve of their big birthday. I try to bake oliebollen and bring a bottle of prosecco and some plastic champagne glasses, I’m about ½ way through our group of neighbors turning 40 and 50!<br /><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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According to news reports, just a few hours before we arrived on Saturday, February 25th, a 40-year old local was driving his truck on Main Street when he ran a stop sign at Burton Drive and hit a parked truck. The driver continued and then crashed into a parked Mercedes propelling both his truck and the Mercedes into The French Corner Bakery. One customer suffered major injuries and 4 others had minor to moderate injuries.<br />
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Not just getting off the highway to walk around San Luis Obispo, but sitting down at <a href="http://www.novorestaurant.com/menus/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">NOVO</span></b></a> to watch and listen to the water rush down the creek beside our cafe table.<br />
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And there was actual <i>rushing</i> this year as most parts of California have been getting quite a bit of rain!<br />
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This house appears in a few scenes in the 1986 hit action-movie "Top Gun", which starred Tom Cruise as a hot-shot young pilot nicknamed "Maverick" who comes to train at the Top Gun Navy fighter jet school in San Diego. Maverick's love interest, played by Kelly McGillis, lived at the house.<br />
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And if you are driving around Oceanside, this is what you will see today.<br />
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Located at 102 N. Pacific Street.<br />
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While on vacation to the Central Coast this weekend, we noticed a brightly colored cow in front of the History Center downtown.<br />
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And a few more steps away, my absolute favorite of the cow collection was standing tall.<br />
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Later we walked around the Cow Poly campus, ooops, I mean the Cal Poly campus where I got my Journalism degree.<br />
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Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-83607318195550204712016-10-24T11:28:00.000-07:002016-10-24T11:30:18.624-07:00Getting Ready for HalloweenTemperature has finally cooled, a bit, in San Diego.<br />
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In terms of frequency, opportunity and proximity, I should be labeled a <i>beach gal </i>or a gal that spends a <u>lot</u> of time at the beach.</div>
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It is less than 3 miles from our home to the Pacific Ocean.</div>
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Plus, I grew up in Southern California, so had easy access to a lot of famous beaches when I was a kid.</div>
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While in my twenties and living on the East Coast, in Hingham MA, I was so close to the Atlantic Ocean that I could walk to the ferry to commute by boat to downtown Boston.</div>
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Which is a roundabout way of saying I should be a beach gal, right?</div>
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Well in terms of amount of time spent near an ocean, then yes, I am definitely a beach gal.</div>
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But oh, in my heart of hearts, I am definitely a lake girl.</div>
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That is my happy place.</div>
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Ask anyone who has spent lake time with me over the years (my husband, our friends in Maine that shared their house with us, our fabulous Finnish family that invited us to vacation with them at a lake house in Finland and our relatives in Massachusetts that live right on a lake).</div>
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It is just such a zen experience.....floating on the lake, letting your mind wander and drift with the current.</div>
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Interrupted by short spurts of energy to paddle around or jump off a floating dock before resuming the basic need to float.</div>
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But it has been in the news again with the addition of Liberty Public Market -- a food court similar to San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace.<br />
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Totally worth a visit and do eat in the Mess Hall so you can grab a glass of wine or beer while eating your lobster roll, thai salad, bratwurst, or sushi!<br />
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They have also added a theatre/restaurant to Liberty Station called THE LOT, now you can have a cappuccino and croissant before the matinee (and skip the soda and red vines).</div>
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So, just for fun, I weighed myself the morning I departed and then again when I arrived home. Expecting the worse.<br />
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And I <b>LOST</b> two pounds.<br />
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Which is rather incredible because by Day 4 I was nervous that I wouldn't fit in my new inner tube (purchased at the Wolfeboro Hardware Store, for $3.99, it was the last one on the shelf and was meant for kids age 9 and up).<br />
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I highly recommend this summer vacation eating plan (in combination with hours on the dance floor and swimming)!<br />
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Bailey's Bubble in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.<br />
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Until this trip, I only knew MIT from <i>Good Will Hunting</i>, that movie with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Robin Williams.</div>
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<br />Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577717429719698591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-478326297984947830.post-39221563301907840162016-08-30T21:24:00.002-07:002016-08-30T21:24:24.710-07:00Charles Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love Boston. I worked in Boston. I have visited Boston many times since leaving.<br />
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Because it is old and historic, it feels the same and looks the same, even though restaurants come and go and new shops spring up.<br />
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Our August trip was all about western Massachusetts and getting to a wedding so we had very little time in our beloved Beantown.<br />
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But strolling down Charles Street did the trick.....<br />
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It was a fun adventure, throbbing music and crowds and all (and just a short Uber drive to the Greek Theatre to see Bonnie Raitt in concert, where the crowd was significantly older and we knew the words to the songs).</div>
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Our summer garden has been quite fun for our little guests from Finland!<br />
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They run outside, fill their watering cans and make sure that all the plants get wet/soaked.<br />
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Before dinner there is the ritual of 'what is ready to pick' ----- carrots, cucumbers, mint, tomatoes, squash, peppers?<br />
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Still waiting for those darn strawberries to grow.<br />
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Appetizers consist of sliced raw vegetables, mint-infused water for the little ones and sprigs of rosemary for the adult gin and tonics.<br />
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Eating out of the garden, one of my favorite summer rituals!!!<br />
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<b>If</b> you have friends visiting from the East Coast it is super fun to take them to a taping so that they can see celebrities up close and find out what goes on when a show is taped.<br />
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<b>If</b> you are lucky, you will get Priority Seating (which means you will get inside the studio and even if you land in the back row it is still a good seat as everything is much smaller than you would imagine).<br />
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<b>If</b> you are incredibly lucky, you will see the cast of the new Ghostbusters walk out and sit on Jimmy Kimmel's couch --- Melissa McCarthy! Kristen Wiig! Kate McKinnon! Leslie Jones!<br />
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Akyroyd played harmonica and sang with Jimmy's band while Bill Murray danced with Kristen Wiig. It was amazing. The entire studio audience was on their feet screaming and clapping for the rest of the show (I lost my voice for days afterward and my girlfriend burst a blood vessel in her hand from clapping so hard).<br />
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Here is the <a href="http://1iota.com/Show/1/Jimmy-Kimmel-Live" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>link</b></span></a> to get tickets.<br />
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