Hanging in the park

 Griffith Park on a glorious November day.  75 degree perfection

Pandemic Thanksgiving

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

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:

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.

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:

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 ;)

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!

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   

Bubbles!

 Feeling like a kid!

23 of you and me

 Couldn't have asked for a better partner in life.  Happy 23rd  wedding anniversary to us!

Karaoke Musical Trivia Night

 So fun to play a game with friends on a hot summer night. 

Team Goldenberg Won!

I tried to escape the heat but found the smoke

I was sick of the heat and decided to go to Santa Barbara for a few days to escape.  The weather there was a lot cooler but the smoke was insane.  There are fires raging all over the state and the smoke covered Santa Barbara in a thick haze.  The smell was intense and burned your eyes.  Not exactly conducive to long walks on the beach...  

Hat Day!

One of the kids was wearing a safari hat and before you knew it we all grabbed a hat and had an impromptu "hat day" in class.  So fun!

Fourth of July weekend...

Dinner at Mark's house, thank God he has a large backyard for us to hang out in...

This was so cool.  We were taking a walk and the next street over was having a spur of the moment concert in the street.  Socially distancing yet still singing together.  Fun!  Felt good to stand in the street and sing "Jane Says."

More recording from afar...Tia Rider's Animation Demo

We're smiling under those masks...

Since we have to be socially distant Kevin stitched together this photo:

Every morning - Feed me, feed me now

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

 Thursday - I'm getting hangry

Friday:

Saturday:

Recording in the age of pandemic

We were actually able to record demos - practicing safe distance and wearing masks.  It wasn't too bad - no hugging the actors or engineer :(  but it was easy to stay far enough apart that we felt safe.  I mean, the actor is in the booth most of the time and Kevin and I were far enough apart and had our masks on when we were all together.   It felt really good to get back to the studio after 11 weeks of staying home, even with the precautions...

Science project

We're growing our own green onions.  You just lop off the old tops, stick them in clean water and change the water each day.  In about 8 to 10 days you have new sprouted green onions.

And then you have onions to make this...yummy....

Celebrating Nicole's birthday...

....in the age of Covid 19....thank God for Zoom!

Vince's new profession? hahahahahahaaaa

We visited with Mark yesterday and Vince wound-up giving him a haircut.  Oh the things you do during a pandemic.

 On our walk later that day....