Last week was somewhat calm because Mary Ann, Ralph, and Jim were all out of town. However, Robert Craig was in town and he, Ron Arnold, and I went to Catalina on Tuesday. It is towards the end of the summer and Catalina has a multitude of tourists present — in fact, a large cruise [...]

Considering the fact that Mary Ann was gone for much of the week and Ralph was gone for all of the week, I managed to find quite a few things to do. One of the charities that Betty and I give to is the Salvation Army. They have a facility out in East San Diego [...]

On Friday my daughter Mary Ann and son Jim took off for a hiking trip to Scotland , so it’s mighty lonely around the house on some nights and weekends. We went out on the boat on Friday and decided to go to Oceanside, where we had lunch at the Jolly Roger, which is our [...]