I have so many reasons why I voted for Trump – this unexpected one tops the list.
So while Biden has created an unprecedented pardon for his son – Trump is doing whatever possible to release the remaining hostages. Btw, anybody tell me that Biden loves his son – no he hates him – he never raised him well and then enabled every single bad behavior he could. After that – he punishes the rest of America by changing the rules of what a presidential pardon means.
After visiting the San Fernando Mission, it was time to paint the model. So Westley and I set to work.
Making very good progress.
After the Mission we went to see a movie at City walk. A cute Christmas movie with the Rock. He now has a production company – doing much better than regular Hollywood. The view over the Valley from the parking structure
We were greeted by a witch. Asked her if this was Wicked or Harry Potter – they were visiting Harry Potter world.
King Kong ready for Chirstmas
We watched the sprouting water, too cold to run through and get wet
scary monsters everywhere.
They do a great job with the seasonal plantings.
Finally, the Christmas tree. No fear from ‘minorities’ that don’t like Christmas.
Westley is in 4th grade, which means CA history. So after Thanksgiving I took the two boys to visit our local mission. the 17th among the 21 missions. Fra Fermin Lasuen, a Franciscan monk helped establish this mission between San Gabriel and Ventura. The convento – which housed the guest house and the winery, is the largest adobe building in CA – two story tall. this was basically a hotel for travelers, and today is a wonderful museum full of artifacts from the late 18-early 19th c.
The Bells of the El Camino Real – kings highway that used to dot the whole 101 freeway.
The famous fountain, which is original to 1797, you can tell these bricks are very old. Not the ones on top – they have been replaced.
There are many buildings here, looking through two doorways back at the fountain.
Over the years and over quite a few earthquakes a lot of damage has been done to the buildings – luckily they have been rebuilt. Most are adobe – unfired bricks that then have a very thick coating of stucco. Although since 1994 earthquake, concrete and long bolts have been used to shore up the buildings.
Look at that blue CA sky on Dec. 1. We did go into the church, Didn’t get pictures there. On through to the cemetery. we walked through the Bob Hope garden – where he and many of his family members are buried. Most of the cemetery is locked off from the mission, they have their own access. One reason is because we payed an entrance fee.
another bell. We were there at noon, the bell in the tower rang three times and had a short break before 3 more peels. Unfortunately – it only got to 9 -not to 12.
The woodwork shop and some old pottery. There is a winery under the Convento – very very cool. Both temperature wise and just seeing the artifacts there.
Not sure if this room was the old Church, the boys are looking at a modal of the church.
The walls are four feed wide! I can see a display case with many of the textiles.
A close up of a gorgeous ceremonial cope.
Sitting on chairs.
The walls are beautifully painted. The whole mission is very well cared for. At some point I’ll take them to the San Gabriel mission. Each one has a very different feel to it.
A lovely French tablecloth I found in Palm Springs, it fits the open table completely. I love it.
I ordered linen samples, from Latvia (via Etsy) it took a long time to arrive. I have now chosen the 4 on the lower right to make napkins. It will probably take at least 2 months to arrive, then I will work by hand making drawn thread hemmed napkins…. I’ll keep you posted when the fabric arrives.
Table set, there is a small table as well and the breakfast table will be for the kids. There will be 19 of us – I got 4 orphans – a friend had to call off her dinner – so I took a few.
cranberry, yum! Just the right amount of sweet and tangy
eggplant and winter squash.
stuffing and green beans
Turkey in the oven!
Aytan got reimplanted with his cochlear on the left side – so it hurts and he’s not feeling well and my friend Marsha made him a chocolate cake and chocolate chip cookies.
Elk and family spent a week in Waikiki – now home for Thanksgiving.
another puzzle done – with a missing piece in the lower lefthand corner.
Making a sampler that will probably go to new granddaughter.
The best place to see Mid century architecture is Palm Springs. This signage on an apartment building is really Googie design.
If you let a tree grow long enough, interesting things will happen. This is a Palo Verde – you can see the smaller branch is green. The main truck isn’t anymore, look how interesting this tree is as it peels itself back from the core.
a wonderful visit is Sunnylands – this is the massive estate of The Annenbergs. It is very hard to get tickets to see the private home and the private golf course. So they have this lovely visitor center. which is worth a visit, and a ‘small garden’.
There is a large expanse of grass – very green grass! In the middle a pyramid, this looks like in a year of two will be completely covered in succulents.
Plenty of succulents in the ground and all, very well cared for.
rows of barrels.
I think the gardeners come by often to clear out the ‘babies’, I hope they go to good homes.
Across the street from our balcony, I am very impressed. The next day I realized this was in honor of Veterans Day . Good thing, celebrating our veterans, for all I know a veteran living there.
What a lovely parade in Downtown Palm Springs. It is too hot for a parade on July 4th, so this one covers both.
AHH, the Marines.
I enjoy these very large inflatables. PSHS had a big part of this parade.
How wonderful to see the service dogs marching as well.
The weather was amazing here in the desert.
Uncle Sam has to bend down under the stoplights.
The marching band! from the Junior High.
This has to be a wig right?
The end of the parade.
Out at dinner with the whole gang! Great dinner! Food, company and ambience.
Sorry if you don’t like seeing images of people being attacked and beaten unconscious – I don’t either, but things just get worse and worse. I’m not even sharing the images from NY or DuPaul university in Chicago where Jews are beaten on the street and on campus.
This is the response, blame the Jews, make sure to find a way to not really tell the story. Although many of us are calling this a pogrom, which it is, it should be labeled a Frahud, what happened in Iraq in 1942 – a vicious attack on the streets of Bhagdad, at least this time, no one was killed, but Israel had to send to airplanes to Amsterdam to bring these soccer fans home. This is why there is an Israel.
I doubt the Islamofascists, the Amsterdam Mayor and the police who were complicit were aware of this anniversary. Btw, the same thing is happening in Los Angeles Jewish businesses having their windows broken. Total silence from Mayor select Bass.
Of course the Islamonazis are only starting with the Jews – so for all the Dutch who are siding with the poor Palestinians -you are next.
Bill Ackman, of Pershing Square Investment group is an amazing man. When Oct 7th happened and the Democrats sat silently by – he switched and voted for Trump. And now, he is doing the right thing – taking his company off their stock exchange. I know the King is mortified, Gert Wilders is trying to do something in the Dutch parliament – but the majority of people there support this – just like they sent Anne Frank to Auschwitz – and now have ‘globalized’ her so no Jewish mention can be made. Europe is in big trouble.
Germany is actually doing the right thing – they will cut off any funding from groups like these, And France is supposed to host the Israeli soccer team soon – they are adding 4000 policemen for the event.
I’m all over social media these days sharing these images. I get enough likes to know it matters and I couldn’t care less if the lovely liberals have abandoned me – they did so years ago.
Yes, I am still celebrating our huge win, for years I was the silent one. No more.
On a lovely November day I walked to the farmers market. On the way I saw this shell of a boat.
How lovely! Someone is building a boat from scratch! I love creative people.
Most of the hatred and insanity in online. Sure there are people here with masks – a sure sign of a Kamala voter. But otherwise, everyone was happy and friendly. I chatted with people about what fruit they like. One woman was wearing a gorgeous crochet shawl, turns out I did know her. Other people ae just enjoying a lovely day. See we actually can get along.
On the way home I passed this house, I so wanted to knock on the door and than them for voting for Trump. Of all the houses with Kamala signs – there was never an American flag. So yeah, masks for the left – American flags for the right.
I am very happy with the election results, we in CA aren’t too shabby. 40% for Trump State wide, 34% just here in Los Angeles county.
The memes are endless. Many are funny, many have me shaking my head. People saying they will be slaves or loose all rights. All I can think about is Israel these days – that is real trauma – but most of the world doesn’t care.
President Trump on the other hand is calling for Israel to actually win the war on terror and to beat our enemies. A good sign is the jump in the Stockmarket as well as a major drop in the value of the Iranian currency.
A rocket segment landing on a car in Raanana – a lovely suburb of Tel Aviv. I had a friend ask what this is – since in her world – one doesn’t see this kind of violence. Although no one was hurt here, a young 18 man was killed by another rocket.
Maybe both polls and the media have lost a lot of their power.
I made a strawberry, not very good for the first attempt. Everything takes practice.
The election is tomorrow, of course I’m nervous, but government is being so autocratic – it may work in our favor
there is a whole story here about a gang attacking this young man, in fighting back one of the gang members was killed – so Iran being Iran, they immediately kill the Jew. they hung him – this is what they do.
A Palo Verde tree – the trunk is green, it also often has sharp thorns to keep the animals away.
Tall cactus – not a Saguaro
This is a Saguaro, native to Arizona, it does appear to be doing well here.
Close up of another otherworldly succulent. Maybe it is a cactus, look at those thorns!
Sometimes the flowers are very small, you have to get close to see how beautiful they are.
It’s been crazy around here, and this before Halloween.
Old man and Ghostbuster!
At night West was a blow up alien, good thing, because we could see him and the others in the dark.
Mandy as Carebear with a real baby bump!
I love that people still carve pumpkins!
Sorry the image is blurry! but I do love when parents get dressed up as well.
All kinds of Blow ups. There were some chickens, and as they crossed the street one shouted out – why did the chicken cross the road! that picture was just too fuzzy.
Great decorations! Eyal and Einav saw the nightmare before Christmas and didn’t like it much, Cam saw part of it and wants to see the whole thing!
the bags are getting heavy. No one had candy corn this year! all I wanted was one simple package. It’s gross but it’s halloween!
Is Aytan just a wolf or a werewolf? He told me the other day that Vampires live in Transylvania. He didn’t mention werewolf. Didn’t get a picture of Shira, don’t know what she was.
The Harry Potter family.
Harry and Ginny, yay for real red hair!
At school, they get to be Cultural day – so nice Orthodox Jews, this is what they asked for!
People in California are crazy. putting a bumper sticker on a Tesla because you don’t like Elon is so virtue signaling! If you hate him so much, sell the car. I know the resale market for Teslas isn’t that great. But these people are crazy.
I voted early, part of me wishes I could vote often…
Yup, ain’t this the truth.
I’ve heard about the Arlington Garden in Pasadena. A few months ago I realized that it was on my way to pick up Aytan from school. so finally I left home early enough to explore.
The garden is overgrown and a little of a mess. What I found so lovely are the man-made elements. like this gate.
These flowers are beautiful, especially the bronze ball in the center.
The concept of the garden started in 2005 by Kicker and Betty MeKenney. This is on land that was supposed to be part of the 710 freeway that was supposed to go from Pasadena to Long Beach. The city of South Pasadena managed to stop it from going through their city. Which is why it is such a lovely little town. This fountain wasn’t running at this time. The tiles here remind me very much of Batchelder tiles, I know they are not, but it is a lovely homage.
Love these tiles.
A tile stele seen through the trees.
A close up with a broken pot. There is something lovely about the decay here in the garden.
The whole place is full of seating areas.
So here I am sitting for a while, enjoying the surroundings.
Many other people walking around, so glad this garden gets good use.
There was a group here, couldn’t tell if they are volunteers here or just people on a lunch break. There was a woman with a three legged dog – he was running around so fast, I couldn’t get a picture of him.
recycling bricks from a house that once stood here. The house was torn down for the freeway.
