Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Big moon over snow covered mountains

 We took a hike yesterday to see the snow covered mountains.  Around sunset the mountains turned a bright pink and then deep purple.  All of a sudden this GIANT moon rose up from behind the mountains.  It was truly magical.

My view as I was driving to the store:


Sunset and moonrise:







Saturday, December 26, 2020

More Christmas fun

Even though it was just the two of us we still enjoyed Christmas day.  We opened presents, cooked, took a walk around the lake, watched some fun shows, talked to a bunch of friends and family.  I feel so fortunate that we're safe and sane during this pandemic.  It was hard not seeing my mom and family for the holiday but hopefully next year we'll all be together.














Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Cookies

I love making cookies and handing out to friends.  This year we stayed home so my neighbors got lots of cookies :)




 

Two more days to go


Sunday, December 13, 2020

Molasses cookies are yummy!


Vince requested I make molasses cookies and since I didn't really know what they'd taste like (I probably only had a molasses cookie once in my life) I found a recipe called "Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies." The cookie reviews said something about these cookies being just like how Grandma used to make them. I don't believe either of my grandmothers made molasses cookies but I'm happy to say...they came out great! If you flatten them they come out like ginger snaps and if you leave them in a ball and bake them they are fluffy yummy cookies. Call me old fashioned, but I love these.


Monday, December 7, 2020

Holiday Vibes

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...



The day before another lockdown.  We went and got our hair cut and dyed. 



Sunday, November 29, 2020

Hanging in the park

 Griffith Park on a glorious November day.  75 degree perfection



Thursday, November 26, 2020

Pandemic Thanksgiving

 Thanksgiving 2020 - Man, I've never met a carb I don't like.





Saturday, October 31, 2020

A quiet Halloween

 Not one kid knocked on our door.  It was quiet and kinda sad.  But at least we voted today!  That's scary enough.  Look out for the voter bandits!


We made these caramel apples and pretzel and chocolate turtles.  Have to have goodies for Halloween!


Roma checking out our spiders and bats:



Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Roma and Pumpkins

 Every year we take pictures with the cats and pumpkins.  First we had three cats, then two, now we're just one - Miss Roma.  Don't know if we'll have any cats next year so I thought I better put up this photo of my girl.



Saturday, October 24, 2020

Laguna Escape!

 It's been really hard staying indoors and not doing anything during the pandemic.  But we escaped last weekend and went to the Laguna Beach Art Museum and saw a gorgeous show that featured Plein Air paintings from Granville Redmond.  Very pretty stuff.   Afterwards we had lunch at Urth Cafe on the patio and then walked along the beach.  It was very rejuvenating to be out and about and breathing fresher air.  It's been so horrible here for months with smoke from the fires.  My lungs were very happy.

The way California used to look a hundred years ago:












Thursday, October 15, 2020

13 Ghosts and Spongebob

 I was flipping channels the other night and I saw that our dear friend Richie's film that he wrote was playing and then I noticed that Spongebob was playing at the same time.  I love it!  And to get really random, I noticed that the film above was one of Vince's favorite movies and it was playing on the Paramount channel.  Vince worked at Paramount for years.  Wow, there was a whole cosmic "thing" happening here ;)



Friday, October 2, 2020

Santa Barbara Escape

 I couldn't take another day of the heatwave in L.A. so I packed up a bag and headed to Santa Barbara for a three day work vacation escape.  When I left L.A. it was close to 100 degrees and when I got to Santa Barbara it was 79 degrees.  Heaven on earth.  It was great to see my mom and celebrate her birthday and I really enjoyed a couple of visits with my dear friend Lorie where one night we had a gourmet dinner picnic at Shoreline Park, another time we took an electric bike ride.  In between visiting I worked in the daytime.  Gotta love Zoom I can teach classes from anywhere.  

I ate a lot of McConnell's ice cream.

When I walked on the beach it was actually cool.  First time in weeks that I wasn't dying from the heat.  

We took a twenty mile ride from Lorie's house to Goleta Beach.  So much fun.


...until I hit a curb and flew off the bike!  Ouch!  I wasn't 50 feet away from Lorie's house, almost there but nooooooo, I crashed.

I won't show you the details but take it from me, I'm black and blue all over my body.   New bruises are still forming two days later.


But I still had a blast!

Saturday, September 26, 2020

An interview with Gav

 One of the best things about working with animation people is the bonds you make working together on projects.  Gav and I have made three pilots together and we love love love working together.  Here we are doing an interview for Gav's "Voice Acting for Animators" class that he teaches in Ohio.  

Here's the Youtube link if you'd like to watch the interview:

https://youtu.be/WTvIIpFAS3Q