National Pina Colada Day

Good Morning San Diego, Did you see the moonrise last night? It came up huge and glowing right over the coronado bridge.

Well , if I had known today was a national fo-fo drink day we might have changed the menu last night to include coconut in more than just the shrimp. We celebrated my Brother and his wife coming to visit. From L to R: brother Mike, Capt. Capt. Capt. Pete (long story), sister in law Nonna,

Jimmy Kennedy, Laurie Kennedy, Magic Chef John, and John Jr.

Sunrise, bright and shiny this morning.

Good Morning San Diego

Top O' The Thursday to Ye,

This flower brings out the Irish in me, obviously. I think it should be used in a bridal bouquet for someone, dont you?

This is another of americas finest off to work protecting all that we hold near and dear. Good job, now get back to work.

Good Evening San Diego

Hey Better Late Than Never, Right?

A Little late today, but busy, busy, no time to stop and get rusty, as my Mom used to say. This little bit of steel never sees any rust, you think? This shot is of what I think is the Reagan heading out. (thanks to Jimmy for grabing this shot on my camera while I was galavanting). So keep busy and dont rust or all these cute sailor boys will be ordered to sand you down and brighten you up.... I always did like bellbottoms.

Happy Macaroni Day

Good Morning San Diego,

Today is National Macaroni Day, John is celebrating today of course. I am ecstatic because it is national Tennis month. We both can honor our favorite vices....

San Diego is soft again this morning, no golden sunrise to show you yet, but I'm waiting impatiently, patiently....


This pic is of some of our Finest leaving Americas Finest this morning.

Last night Coronado Island looked like a Russian princess' open jewelry box with a single pearl glowing over it.

Hey, This is supposed to be a workday !!!

Well, someone else was out having the best Monday funday. These were taken about 6pm this evening and they were STILL having a great time. So I decided to join them and have a great time capturing their great time. Now, you can have a great time looking at us all having a great time. Are we having fun yet????

Monday Morning

Good Monday Morning San Diego,

Wakey, wakey, time to go down and pick up all those out-a-towners that love to cruise into San Diego and fill up your guest room for 2 weeks. I saw them arrive at 6am. Are they still waiting for you to pick them up at the dock?

Good Morning Sunshine

Good Morning San Diego,



Well, did we wake up this after 4th of July morning with all our fingers and toes? Good for us. We finally learned that playing with matches actually does cause bodily harm. I hate it when Mom is always right. Even more when she said "I told you so.... now go get the Mercurochrome. Ooowchhhhhh!



After such a spectacularly colorful evening you would think that we would have an equally colorful sunrise. This shot is not black and white. This is what our city looked like at 6:00am today.





This is what it looked like last night. Star Spangled Patriots screaming and flares and gunshots and all. For more fireworks shots I took last night go to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rampallion/sets/72157620990678186/
Just click on the link above and you will be sent to my fireworks set on Flickr.

This shot was on the "other side of the hill" (not tracks) last night before we came home to see the "works" on our side of the hill.

Thanks to Gayle and Duncan for a great evening on Sunset Cliffs....

4th of July

A fourth of July Record

1 was a wide-awake little boy who rose with the break of day;

2 were the minutes he took to dress- then he was offf and away.

3 were his leaps when he cleared the stairs, although they were steep and high;

4 was the number which caused his haste, because it was Fourth of July!

5 were his pennies which went to buy a package of crackers red;

6 were the matches which touched them off and then - he was back in bed.

7 big plasters he had to wear to cure his fractures sore;

8 were the visits the doctor made, before he was whole one more.

9 were the dolorus days he spent in sorrow and pain; but then,

0 are the seconds he'll stop to think before he does it again.

by Lilian Dynevor Rice, 1900

Friday

Good Morning San Diego,

Ready for friends, frankfurters, and fireworks? You still have one day to find those illegal sparklers that you tucked away last year, leftover from that trip to an open firework county. Grab the kidletts, and grandma and come to San Diego bay for the best light show you will see anywhere. Ill see you there tomorrow.....

Can you believe it?

Good Morning San Diego,
Can you believe it? I don't want to complain about it, or jinx it, but the very first day of July, and we have our golden sunrise back. I told you so........

Tuesday

Good Morning San Diego.

Here we go again, another foggy start to a beautiful day. The last day of June gloom, right?

Maniac Monday

Another busy commute to the office. Point me in the right direction, Ill wake up by the time we get there.

I hate it when there is so much traffic in the morning. That yellow bouy cuts me off every single day.

Back to work on another misty manic monday? Or heading out to the old grind like these guys?

The Stella D'Italia is throwing its own star on the water.

I'm Baaaaak!

Good Evening San Diego,

Did you miss me? I was away for 3 days at my "I can't believe I'm EVEN 40", 40th high school class reunion. Glad to say the class, on a whole, aged really well. Most of us are still walking un-assisted and can remember our own middle names. The women looked amazing, and I did not see anyone that looked obviously "Rested". Are you ready for a trip down memory lane with me? Too BAD.. You have to come anyway:

This is the house I grew up in in San Jacinto, CA. It is still yellow and looks exactly as I remember it. (amazing considering the hard times the rest of the town has registered). You will have to tiptoe thru my memory backward, as I loaded these pictures in the wrong order(oops).

The house above is nextdoor, and belonged to my closest friend Kathy (until 6th grade) when we went over to the "dark" side and moved to Hemet, our biggest rival. I cried for a month and hated Hemet at first. Kathy's house now looks like most of the valley, dry, dusty, and really on hard times. When I first walked into this house it was the first "mansion" I was ever in. In my mind it is still the elegant, high ceilingd, bees wax polished, crystalled, eye popper any Kindergartner ever saw. Speaking of that, the picture above that is the world famous Kindergarten 1 room schoolhouse that was 1/2 block from home. I remember the looooong, dusty walk from my door to school and back. (maybe 2 minutes if I lagged?)

The lake picture is an interesting one. If you look closely at the center of the lake you WON'T see an X that would mark the spot where the 5 acres that we were going to buy when we changed our mind and moved to San Diego. I had heard that it was under water, but had not yet seen the sun reflecting upon the water over the spot. I had always asked for water front property...

The top photo is of my best friend in highschool, Kay, and of Kurt, one of the great guys in "our crowd", Kays husband , Dale, is the photographer. ( he is trying to zoom in on the wine bottle lable) my husband John sent along a bottle from our graduation year 1968. It was a verrrrrry good year. Kay who is always on her toes reminded us all that for our 50th reunion all of us from '68 will be 68......

OUTTA HERE

Hi guys,
Just a quick note to let you know I will be out of town for 3 days. Leaving today to go to beautiful downtown Hemet, CA. to revisit my youth... 40th (can you believe it) class reunion. Back to the Blog and SD on Monday. Call a lonely little John and keep him company for me (actually you can be his probation officer and make sure he doesn't have more fun than me. Talk to ya soon. R