Lots to catch up on... part 1

It was quite a busy week last week:

The garden just grew and grew..

I am fascinated by the tomatillo plant in my pot. It is growing veraciously and it is covered in the little bells. I have never grown one before, and I am truly hoping that they will reach their full potential but in the mean time I am really enjoying watching it grow.

Thursday we had a Neighborhood Watch introductory meeting..

I know they say you are getting old when you notice police men look younger, but I swear the community services police officer didn't look old enough to be working! The photo I took of him wasn't very good, or I'd post it.

The biggest part of such a group seems to be getting to know your neighbors, so I am really hoping something will come of it.

On Friday we headed up towards San Francisco to drop Mary (my mother-in-law) off at the airport after a three week stay, and we kept on driving across the Golden Gate Bridge (in the fog) up towards Jenner. We stopped off on the way at the Pelican. A really nice English pub in Muir beach. A pint and a cheese and ham toastie to keep us going :-)

We stayed at the Rivers End in Jenner, a small restaurant with cabins that we had stayed in last summer. The view is just wonderful. It was a grey day but still spectacular ...

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Shrimp Artichoke Pizza With Cilantro Pesto

We are die hard home made pizza fans, and make one once a week- usually Friday or Sunday nights. They normally consist of a pizza base made in the bread machine, with toppings such us onions, peppers, mushrooms, and some kind of sausage with a good layer of fresh mozzarella. For a long time, Dick has tried to convince me that shrimp is good on a pizza, but I just didn't even like the sound of any kind of fish on pizza. If I've ever had shrimp on pizza it was a long time ago and they were small and hard after being baked. Yuk. However, last weekend we both ended up listening to a story on NPR about a winning pizza recipe in New York. It actually sounded good even to me, and tonight we made it, and it was lovely!

CA to MA day 3- Pasdena CA to Needles CA

Today we left Pasadena and joined route 66. We are following a combination of an open street map with a GPX of route 66 on it, a paper map especially for route 66 and a book because there are several iterations of the route, as it changed over time. The drive out of LA from Pasadena towards San Bernardino started off really well, and we already saw lots of iconic signs. However, after two hours of constant traffic lights, we ended up cutting off a short section of that part of route 66 to keep our sanity, and joined I15 for a short distance, unfortunately, we also missed another short section of route 66 which we should have joined. Our first actual stop was in a tiny town called Victorville where we stopped for lunch at an old route 66 diner called Emma Jean's Holland Burger Cafe. We shared a 'Brian Burger' which was recommended in the book we have. It was a great recommendation! It was a really well cooked tasty burger - so glad we shared it as it was enormous! Ther

Thank-full for health insurance

Having spent 4 hours in the emergency room last night with Dick, I am grateful that we have health insurance. It all started with a phone call from Dick saying he had fallen off his bicycle on his way home from work, and would I come and collect him as he was a 'bit banged up'? I rushed there and the first thing I saw was that I could hardly see his eyes- he was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was manifesting itself in his sinuses. All he could remember was having a huge sneezing fit after he 'woke up' having fell off his bike. 'Woke up'?? He couldn't remember hitting his head, although the scrape on the right side of his forehead showed he'd definitely banged his head. His first concern, naturally, was that the bike and his laptop were ok. However, we did not hang around to check them over, we just loaded them into the car- after he taken an anti-histamine that I always keep in my bag. For Dick to say he is hurting is unusual enough,

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