Michael to Middle School, Family Gathering, Jude Visits and Other Stuff

 Grandson Michael with his yearbook and on way to graduation from elementary school to middle school, Friday, June 3, 2011.
I spent the night with them on Thursday night and went to Michael's ceremony at 8:00 a.m.on Friday.

 

 Michael, Jacey, Jen and Chris going to Michael's graduation

from Blue Oak Elementary School in Cameron Park.

 Family Gathering & Potluck  - Saturday, June 4, 2011
Northern California branch of family

 Libby (Jack) Claybrook and Jacey Holinsworth, niece and granddaughter.

Both will be sophomores soon.

 Becky and Charlie

 Jacey and Jennifer with the flying hand

  Janyll and Becky

Hunter, Michael and Abigail

 Jude arrived Wednesday afternoon and stayed until early afternoon on Thursday.  We walked to Old Town for lunch on the Sacramento River.

 On the way back from lunch we stopped at Farmer's Market at Capitol @ 7th.  Jude bought a variety of cherries.

 Stacey picked me up on her way home on Thursday night. She's got a beautiful new place in El Dorado Hills.  I luxuriated in the guest room shown here. I spent the night so I could be there the next day for AT&T.

 Saturday, June 11 was my first time to be an event usher at the Sacramento Community Theater for Mary Poppins. 

Memorial Day Weekend 2011

2011 Sacramento Jazz Festival

Zydeco wizard Tom Rigney, , has a dedicated following of fans who turn out to dance whenever he picks up his fiddle. Rigney and his band, Flambeau, have become annual favorites. Betty and I enjoyed Rigney's band on Friday night.

We watched Sister Swings

 And we enjoyed Yve Evan's soulful offerings at the Firehouse Patio.

 Walk in the park

 

 I stopped for a service going on at the 

Vietnam War Memorial.

 Oh, how young they were!

 

 Civil War Memorial

 

 

 

 Rose Garden

 California Poppies

 Lavender

 Cactus Garden in Bloom

 

 Apt. across from park at 15th and N.  A friend lives here and it's claim to fame is that Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden had an apt. here when he was a legislator.

 Walk home down15th Street

San Rafael, Family, Amtrak MisAdventure and Other Momentous Events

I went to San Rafael by Amtrak on Friday, April 8th.  I was house/pet setting while Clay, Janyll and Kaylie went to New Orleans for a few days.  This is a birdhouse outside Kaylie's bedroom window.  She said no bird has ever been in it.

Truffles

Kaylie at her best friend, Annabella's birthday/swim party on Friday, April 15.

Kaylie is in the pink and black swimsuit.

Picture of a picture of Clay that sits in their living room.  He was 11. Cody, Charlie's son in the back was 9 or 10.

Friday, April 15

I was in the driveway waiting for Clay and Kaylie to drive me to the train station in Richmond when I snapped this picture.

 View from train where we stopped for a couple of hours because someone walked in front of the train.

Brochure in the pocket in front on my seat.

Jennifer picked me up at train station in Sacramento around 10:00 p.m. and spent the night with me. It was nice to have someone to decompress with in the aftermath of suicide by Amtrak.

Erica and I walked downtown to Rite Aid.

Got together with Pat and Helen on April 30th.  Snow-capped Sierra's in background.

Pat at home

Sunday night, May 1

May 3, Jennifer, Jacey and I went to San Francisco to meet Stan and Margaret.  They were on a cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver and had a few hours in San Francisco.  We took the ferry from Mare Island in Vallejo to Fisherman's Wharf.

 Taken from ferry approaching San Francisco.  That's the cruise ship Stan and Margaret were on.

Norwegian Cruise Line

 Stan entertaining Jennifer with a story.  Lunch at Tarantino's

Lunch view at Fisherman's Wharf

Jacey, Margaret, Stan and Jennifer

 Stan and Margaret going back to the ship

On the ferry back to Vallejo

 Amgen 2011 Stage 2

 15th and P, Monday May 16
Across park from my apartment

 Scraggler