A trip to southern Ca.

 I am going to post this post for April 10th so that I can from this post on place my picture(s) of the day in order. This is just an explanation on why I am doing so. Thanks!

My son Travis and his son (my grandson) Jeremiah Lee live here in Westwood by me. My other 3 sons and my father live in Southern Ca. For the last couple weeks Travis and I were trying to get down there. It was a good time to do so as Jeremiah had spring break coming up, the weather was in our favor (no major snow storms, etc.). I was anxious to see my father. He is 88 years old and has had declining health recently. And for the first time since forever the other 3 sons were for all intents and purposes right next door to each other which meant the 4 sons would all be together again in the same room since my son Troys wedding in May of 2006! The biggest plus was that Troy my one son that lives down there and with whom we would be staying is as close to my Dad's house as if we here in Pinetown/Westwood were driving to Susanville to do some grocery shopping. In other words a very short drive! Travis had not seen his grandfather, (my dad) for over 3 years and Jeremiah was only 3 years old the last time he had seen him.. So I am going to post my pictures of the day except they will not be of my town, they will be of my trip down there.

Dog Park

Like I have already mentioned my son Troy and his wife Dil have their new baby "Chumba" . Their baby enjoys a occasional romp in their local dog park! Another "place" I have never heard of before or seen. Seperated in two sections, one for small dogs and one for big dogs we all went to see "Chumba" go and hang out with his own.It was adorable and these are a few of his friends.

 

Chumba in a scuffle. The fence you see seperates the big dogs from the little dogs,

 

A little old man I talked to owns the dog in front whom he informed me's name was scruffy. This old man was such a sweetheart and you could tell that he was a lonely old guy and enjoyed the conversation from other loving dog owners!

 

Scruffy posing!!!

 

  

They had these little cement sections you can see below that held little water bowls in front of all benches. It was so cute with little bones and paw prints drawn into the cement. It was really set up cute!

 

And proud papa Troy holding his baby Chumba!

Easter Sunday in southern Ca.

Easter Sunday, we woke up to the fact the Easter Bunny had indeed found Jeremiah even though he was not at his home but 600 miles away. My son and his wife, Troy and Amanda whom I call Dil have recently welcomed a new family member. Chumba

 

Chumba is a 22 week old purebred Italian greyhound and without a doubt their pride and joy , as Chumba should be. He is an extremely smart little dog and I was soooo impressed by him.

Where they live at they have a shopping center where animals are allowed, even welcomed. I can not remember the name of it but will find out. This is where we went on Easter Sunday afternoon. 

 

At this mall they have this Merry-Go-Round right in the middle of the mall.

 

I had never seen anything like this in a mall. I am sure I am the few. I just don't live by a place that has these sort of things, like a mall, let alone a mall with a Merry-Go-Round and a Ferris Wheel. LOL!!!

 

This is Dil holding the newest member of a family she is extremely close to. This is Lola and she is as cute as can be.

 

  

Jeremiah went on this Ferris Wheel with Dil!

 

And I always save my favorites for last. I and Dil are walking behind my sons and grandson.From left to right is Travis, up front is Jeremiah, Travis's son, then Troy and my youngest Hunter E.

 

Does Jeremiah not look like he has the same walk as his Dad and his uncles? I think so! I had a nice time this day. Yup a mall that has carnival rides along with allowing animals. What a trip!

My biggest fear realized!!!

I have let my fear of my big pine tree crashing on my house very apparent in this blog. I wrote about it here in the post entitled Blow,Blow, Blowing Snow
In that particular post I was teasing with my son Troy who lives in southern ca, that it was not the tree itself I was fearful of but the tree limbs. I mean some of those limbs are huge!!!!
Well today as I was out and about looking for my picture I noticed that my worst of worst fears were realized.
Indeed a tree limb had decided to call my roof home. I am sooo shaken up by this. Mainly due to the fact that I did not hear it happen, (of course maybe that would have been worse!) But my GOD , I have been talking about this happening since I moved into this house, always and forever fearful of the tree blowing limbs onto my roof.
So if you dare to see the destruction, the fear I have been living with all these years come to light, just scroll down. I warn you, it is NOT a pretty sight!

Now is there anyone out there that DOES NOT understand the fear I have been living with?????????

Blow,Blow, Blowing Snow

Wind blowing all yesterday afternoon and evening and ALL night long has left me tired, very, very tired. The windows shook all night long and as written before that Pine tree in my backyard always worries me in this kind of wind.
It's funny to me, as I was mentioning about that stupid Pine tree in my backyard and how it scares me when it is so windy to my son Troy via the telephone this morning. he says, "Ah mom, Don't you know how deep those roots are, that tree is not going to fall over on the house"
Do I have STUPID tatoo'd on my forehead?
I said to him "DUH!!! I am not worried about the tree falling, I am worried about the branches snapping off and falling"
Oh well, sooo much for making myself clear!
For today the picture(s) are of my front door. When I opened it this morning around 10:00 A.M. I noticed how the wind had blown the snow up all the way to the top of my front door, I can only imagine what it may have looked like hours earlier, as you can see how the spots are already melting off.

I made this little welcome friends door thing years ago when I had a memorial service here at my home for my best friend. It's funny how it has never broke or fallen off. The "snow circles" are actually little bells.

My last day in southern Ca.

It is Sunday, the day of rest. Well that was not the case in the home of Troy and Amanda. after all they have done this week it was cram time. Both going to college to be History teachers it was cram day at the Mosley household. It was for me, a much differant day , but that's another post on another blog. When all the hours of cramming was over, I snapped some pics of my last day visiting on Posantino Dr. in Anaheim, Ca.

 

A picture of a village, and it WAS built in a day!!!

 

The tree lit up from the other evening. Looks beautiful doesn't it?

 

That evening, Troy and Amanda had a date and I caught them before they went. 

 

After they left I made Hunter stand in the same place for a picture and you can see how thrilled HE WAS!!!

 

But I got him, I got him good, when he was least expecting it. It just goes to show that posed pictures really are NOTHING compared to the real deal. 

So this was my trip to Southern Ca. and I will be leaving here at 7AM in the morning, and I am going to miss all this and that is for sure.

PEACE!!!

Hot chicks whistling

Birthday celebrations were not quite over yet. There is still Troy turning 25 today. Troy and D.I.L. went out to dinner and celebrated the evening before, but tonite D.I.L. found the cutest and funniest card I had seen in a long time, so I told her to let me get ready with my camera when we got home so I could take a picture of his reaction

 

Looking at Troy, Amanda is sitting on the right.

The card reads on the outside "Hey Guy, Some Hot Chicks want to sing Happy Birthday to You!"

 

And when you open it up there are a bunch of baby chickens (It is one of those sound cards)  whistling 

"Happy Birthday To You"

 The cards price? I do not know.

The reaction, "Priceless"

Party on!

The "BIG" day is finally here. The original reason I came. BIRTHDAY'S!!!
Although my grandson's 2nd birthday is actually December 20th, My son Eric and his wife Cindy decided to have his celebration on December 6th, which just so happens to be my other son Troy's 25th birthday. So I got to be a part of 2 birthdays in one day!

It started here at Troy's house. Troy and my young one Hunter drive me to the home of Andy's other grandma's home

In the car I already have my camera pulled out snapping pictures. We are laughing and joking around when Hunter shows me his sign of endearment

laughingly as I have already taken a gazillion pictures of them both.

When we arrive at Andy's party house, Andy is mesmerized with this huge train set that was put up for him just earlier in the day. His birthday party is train themed.

His big sis Katie Ann is in on the fun!

and the both together

After all the guests arrive the cake must be ate. And what an adorable 2nd birthday cake it was. Made by his mom Cindy, this train was loved by all the kids!

And these are just some of Andy's "friends" who were there for his big day!

Of course "The Family Portrait"

On the left is my oldest son Eric, holding his daughter, my only grand daughter and the first girl born in our entire family since my birth "Katie Ann" who just turned 3 in September. Andy the birthday boy is in the highchair, turning 2 for real on December 20th and his mother Cindy!

And after a very long day of celebration we have a very, very, tired Andrew Robert!

Decorating the Christmas Tree, in Orange County Ca.

Later on in the day D.I.L. went and picked up my son from the airport, flying in from New York from a business trip. When they walked in the door, Troy had a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream in his hand. It was time for him to relax from his trip and do what was important.

It was time to change into comfortable clothes, give his wife a big ol' hug, and then boil up some water, fill up some mugs with hot chocolate, add the Baileys Irish Cream, a shot of rum and the whole top of the drink with miniature marshmallows and get down to decorating their Christmas tree.

They bought this place a little over a couple months ago, so this is their first Christmas in their first home they are purchasing. It was a downright honor for me to be able to be a part of this very important day in these kids lives!

And the tree is always done when you put the top onto the tree. A long day it was and so very, very, enjoyable!

Going Postal Day 67

Living in this small town can bring some things that are down right taken for granted in most any place I have been to in the U.S.A.! That would be home delivery of mail.We only have our Westwood Ca. 96137 United States Post Office and not a soul to deliver it to our homes. Frankly however the Post Office is a great place to see people who are about town, usually the parking lot has 5 to 6 cars in it at any given time (or so it seems), today was different as there were only 2 and one was my husband waiting on me to take these pictures.

The town of Westwood has no sidewalks. The only one is the short one in the row of stores starting with Young's Market, and the one you see above. Back in what I think was the spring of 1992 or 93' they built this new one above. Wow our old Post Office was so small in comparison. Looking back it was almost prehistoric, Hell it probably was, I will have to look into that! Anyway this indeed was a very welcoming addition to our town.

It just so happened to be the year that Roller Blades were all the rage. The local kids that had not got them for Christmas, were getting them in this spring! Oh and did the kids love them. This town is so small anyplace is in walking distance! You would see the boys and girls roller blading up and down the streets. They all loved it so. BUT there were no sidewalks like I have already said, and I know these two little boys, one was 9 or possibly 10 and his little brother who was 5 or 6 years of age! They were roller blading to the Post Office which was less than a block away from their home for their mom. The new Post Office if I recall everything correctly was only opened a day or two before. So they were excited about this, looking for the new P.O.Box # with the shiny new key in this new beautiful building. Ahhhh, but it did not stop there . Noooo ,

Those brand new shiny high gloss, newly waxed floors were more than they could take!!!! They had never had a surface like this to check out their true roller blading skills. Can you imagine? It was heaven to them I say, as they raced and skidded and fell and laughed and giggled in this wonderful newly found playground! 2 little boys having way too much fun!

They came home from their play at this new Post Office in the back of the local Lassen County Sheriff's Departments cop car (with no mail I might add) arrested for Vandalism to a federal building. You see their little jaunt in the Post Office made fresh black skid marks on the brand new shiny high gloss, newly waxed floors of this brand new Post Office. The oldest of the two was taken to Juvenile hall 27 miles away in Susanville, and the little guy was released to his parents. A day or two after this happened this sign was posted and still is to this day, over and over again down the whole length of this Post Office on the outside of the building

And why should I know all this? Because they were and are all mine. My sons Troy and Hunter E. Although Troy was released the next day, dear old mom and dad had to spend a downright pathetic amount of money to have a professional come in and take those scuff marks off the floor. Add to that some fines and on and on. What they did was wrong, and of course I am not denying that. But I can't help but wonder had it not been my boys, how soon it would have been before some other little boy or girl would have found their "floor of dreams" in the height of the Roller Blading craze in a town with no sidewalks!

Since then Troy has gotton married, did a 16 month tour over in IRAQ , and Hunter just got hired for a second job. So all in all my boys and the town of Westwood survived, but I do smile a little smile when I see this sign and think of two little boys having one helluva great time!

No need to comment on the dangers that could have happened. We all are and were acutely aware of that, but 16 years later it does make me smile!

Sometimes little boys just want to have fun!

You can find out more of what Troy has been doing by clicking here and here or both of them for that matter by going to Just My Day Blog