Last week one of the cadets at El Monte rode a bike like this into work.  He is Asian as well.

Saturday evening we went to Dolly Parton's Dolly World and saw the Dixie Stampede. It was like the Medieval Times with live entertainment and food served without silverware. The two sides of the room were divided between north and south. We had a great time.

They served us en entire chicken, or perhaps it was a crow.  But it was good.  The service was very good.  I never had an empty soda glass.

Woke to rain this morning with a chance of snow as the day goes on!!!

Karen and I are staying the weekend in a cabin in Gatlinburg, Tn. in the Smokey Mountains. Along with Brian and his family, a third couple, John and Jaime. have joined us for the weekend.

The cabin has three floors, with a bedroom with a bath, on each floor.  The cabin also has a pool table on the bottom floor and a hot tub on the patio.

The forecast is for rain tonight and into Sunday, with a chance of an inch of snow Sunday night into Monday morning.  Snow angels!!!!!

Visiting with Amelia

Karen and I are in Huntsville, Al. for a week visiting my son Brian and his family.  We are going to be staying in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains over the weekend, so I don't know if I will have Internet access.  Expecting rain tomorrow which may mean snow in the mountains!!!  Yeah!!!

Happy Birthday wishes go out to my oldest son, Scott, who turned 41 years young on the 13th.  Happy Birthday Scott.  Lunch when I get back from Alabama. 

Tomorrow morning at 6:50 AM Karen and I will be off on Southwest Airlines to Huntsville, Alabama, to visit my son Brian and his family.  Their daughter, Ameila, is just over 2 months old.  It will be a great oppotunity to get to know Selina and my grandson, Ethan, much better.  Be back in a week.

Today the State of Washington became the 7th state to allow same-sex marriage.  Gov. Christine Gregoire has signed the law today in the state reception room in the Capitol telling gay rights supporters in attendance, "I'm proud our same-sex couples will no longer be treated as separate but equal." 

The law, which doesn't go into effect until June 7th, already has opponents mounting challenges on several fronts.  The State of New Jersey appears to be next. 

This photograph is from 1938.  Today?  $3.88 a gal and climbing again.  I paid $60 for a pair of bluejeans yesterday.  Of course they are shipped by truck and diesel is even higher that regular gas. 

Thirty U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan just this year, but Whitney Houston gets all the headlines.  Where's the outrage?? 

California's Prop 8, the ballot initiative that limited the definition of marriage to a man and woman, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals panel last Tuesday.   The panel in a 2-1 vote wrote, "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples. The Constitution simply does not allow for laws of this sort." 

Here here!!!  So it will be on to the Supreme Court. 

Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin

I went for a bike ride on Friday. Rode from Anaheim Hills, along the Santa Ana River bike trail, to the 10-mile park. I rode a total of 24 miles. It was a nice clear day, with temps in the mid-70's, but the wind had a coolness to it.

Karen and I got our ID bracelets in the mail this week and I wore mine yesterday.  Thanks Jack for the website. The plates on the bracelet give you six lines to put whatever you want.  I put our names, birth dates, "Kaiser Ins." and a couple of phone numbers.  www.roadid.com if you're interested.

SoCal sunset

Thursday evening I went to the basketball game between Colony H.S. and Montclair H.S. At stake, the Mt. Baldy League championship.

Before the game, the team seniors were introduced, along with family members.  Below is Daisey Erby, her husband Shadrack Sr., and their son Shadrack.

Shad is a starting guard for the Colony Titans.  He is the ball handler and team catalyst.  Sadly, he had to sit out the entire fourth quarter with four falls.

The Montclair Cavilers were ahead at half time by one point, and again at the start of the fourth quarter.  But Colony's running game and full-court press took it out of them down the stretch and Colony ended up winning 69-55.

Congratulations to the Colony Titans on their 7th straight Mt. Baldy League Basketball championship.  They have only lost two league games in the last seven years.  On to the playoffs!!!