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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
This was the day that Ursula took Betty to Brentwood so both could have Andi Saltray do their hair in her usual grand style. I, Jim, was left home to fend for myself. I managed to stay active and several things done. First, the repair man came to fix our ice maker which had quit making ice, of which we consume a lot. Below is the $260 part that fixed the problem.
Well worth it to have an endless supply of ice, Betty had to go in and out the garage with ice trays from our non-ice-making fridges and dump them into the ice container. A real pain. I did not take a picture of the bushy-bearded repair man. Didn’t know how he would take it and I find him a bit intimidating. He radiates an aura of great expertise, far above us mere mortals.
After he left, bought a length of pipe in which I inserted our bird bath that has sagged dangerously for several years. Now it is upright and holds waters and little birds come to have a drink. Kat prowls hopefully below waiting to catch a bird unawares. Not worth a picture.
I fixed myself a fine cheese omelet for lunch. Ursi and Betty arrived home earlier than expected with fine looking hair.
Ursi picked some chard for her supper.
While Betty watched.
They were hungry for Chinese food so we went to the closest Chinese buffet. Good meal. A kind customer took our picture in the restaurant foyer.
And that's all, folks.
We had an enjoyable Saturday afternoon at the California Car Museum (which used to be the Towe Automobile Museum for the benefit of you Sacramento old-timers.) It resembles three airplane hangers hooked together. And why were we there pigging out on Vic’s Ice Cream? Our neighbors, Dick and Irene Ryder, took over the museum for the celebration of their Golden Wedding and we got invited because Dick wanted as many people there as possible.
We started out with double mocha chocolate chip cones. You have to be of a certain age to remember Betty Boop.
and wandered around for a while admiring the old cars. The number of old cars is staggering plus various mock-ups of old gas stations and diners.
We could have taken 100 pictures and still not cover the whole collection. And probably several million dollars in value if the cars were to auctions separately.
This colorful old car just needed to have its picture taken. Notice the genuine "Woody" in the background.
Then we went back for another double cone. This time we sat at front row table in the auditorium, cleverly having seats reserved by Betty. There we could sit and eat our cones and have a cup of coffee.
One of the Ryder granddaughters acted as MC, with lots of memories about Granddad’s obsession with classic cars, car shows and car museums. Her part of the program ended when the grandparents drove into the room in a Volkswagen Beetle, identical to the one they drove to Carmel on their honeymoon 50 years ago.
March 10, 2009
This was our dental tooth cleaning day with the added feature of repairing Betty’s broken eye tooth. As we usually do, we visited Dave and Helen Jacobsen in The Redwoods retirement apartments. We have known them for 60 years. Dave showed Betty his balcony garden.
Then we had lunch with them in the Redwoods dining room. Very tasty turkey pot pie on a bisquit.
Then over the hill to Geissberger. An attractive little Chinese woman cleaned Jim’s teeth and made mysterious entries in a file.
Dr Jeff Geissberger worked on Betty’s eye tooth. He sent her first to an endodontic dentist nearby for a root canal. Jeff put in a temporary and we will need to go back in a month so he can finish the work.
As always, we ate a Mexican dinner at Murillo’s in Vacaville. We go to the dentist on Tuesdays because that is the day that Murillo’s has a nice Senior Special. Betty had a soft quesadilla and I had a tasty chicken burrito.
And off to home to check on our e-mail and to pet Kat who languished all day without any attention.
