Keeping the Moms Happy
With this post, I’m caught up on the pictures I’ve told our Moms we’d be posting on the blog. It’s a busy week coming up, and I don’t have time to do thumbnails or any clever captions or navigational niceties, but the photos are here from the last few days …
Thursday, we went to a picnic at Wesley Homes, where my Mom works. Not that Mom has been there a long time, but she was working there during Woodstock. (Kids, ask your grandparents what that was.) Anyway, it was fun, and Kip and the crew served up a nice summer barbecue feast.
Then Friday we flew to Berkeley for the weekend, another whirlwind trip.
We went boating with Elton and Lynn on Saturday. We passed under the San Rafael bridge, past the island where Scott Peterson dumped his wife’s beheaded body on Christmas Eve, and over around Alcatraz, with great views of the Golden Gate bridge and the San Francisco skyline. It was extremely hot, and I over-hydrated early in the trip; vodka can be so refreshing, to a point. But we had a great time, and it’s fun to watch the way Elton is so at one with the boat, handling all the little details with the casualness of a man who has swapped the Bering Sea or North Atlantic for a sunny cruise around the Bay Area. Which he is, of course.
We saw Ween at the Greek Theatre on Saturday night. It’s a spectacular venue looking down over Berkeley to the bay, and it’s where Megan and Molly and Lynn all graduated from high school. No cameras allowed there, though.
Sunday we visited Louis, and I finally met Butchie and his wife Ollie (whom I was told used to be very quiet, but I had a hard time imagining her quiet :-)) and their kids Louis and Rachael. (I’ve included a few photos that Louis took below.) We went to Red Lobster with Barbara Ann and Sibyl, then hung out at Butchie’s house for a while and checked out his amazing barbecue trailer he has built. He makes some great barbecue sauces — check out ArnoldSauce.com. We brough home some samples. We’ll have to have a barbecue party this summer to let everyone check them out.
Then last night we went over to Grandma’s place for dinner. She has a nice-looking golf course in her community, which she can get us a tee time on. It has mature trees and big well-maintained greens and bunkers — we’ll be back to check it out as soon as we can. After dinner, Elton entertained Grandma with a joke whose punch line is “… but I’ve kissed a cock ‘er two!”
Wesley Homes picnic photos: image01 image02 image03 image04 image05 image06 image07 image08 image09 image10 image11 image12 image13 image14 image15 image16 image17 image18 image19 image20 image21 image22 image23 image24 image25 image26 image27 image28 image29
Berkeley trip photos: image01 image02 image03 image04 image05 image06 image07 image08 image09 image10 image11 image12 image13 image14 image15 image16 image17 image18 image19 image20 image21 image22 image23 image24 Louis-1 Louis-2 Louis-3
That’s it for now, Moms, enjoy the pictures and now it’s all work for a few days.
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on July 25, 2006 at 7:59 am Scott wrote:
…now that’s a very sweet boat.
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on July 25, 2006 at 6:03 pm Tom wrote:
No kidding - a boat like that makes me rethink this fear of deep water thing I have. Boats give me the willies, but that looks like a LOT of fun.
on July 25, 2006 at 9:33 pm Doug wrote:
Yeah, it was fun. Although the heat was really tiring, but that’s just the record heat wave all of California’s having this week. We’re ready to have Elton help us pick out a boat, after we don’t feel so broke. (Or retirement, whichever comes first.)
It was cool to see Elton doing all the things he’s been doing for so many years: coaxing the diesel engines to life, re-wiring the bilge pump, reading charts, handling ropes, wedging screwdrivers in the throttles to keep them during hours of steady vibration, cutting bait, and, oh yeah, fishing. Highly recommended — next time you’re in the Bay Area, email Lynn and book your cruise. Tell her the son-in-law sent you, even if she charges extra.