Rick visits our friend Diane

Diane is one of my best friends! And I miss her so much, haven’t seen her for a few years now. Rick is also a long time friend of our mutual friend Diane.
Rick is a good boy and made a point to get in touch with her, make a “date” and go see her for the day when he left here on Sunday.
Rick & Diane had a GREAT day together.. They went driving, went gambling in North Shore Tahoe, then went to South Shore Tahoe and gambled, ate dinner, etc… and the nice thing is Rick came away winner!!
Rick sent me these great photos of them that day.. Diane doesn’t have a computer? Don’t know what is up with that? uumm? Oh well not everyone is like us? Right?
She is a GREAT lady and we all love her dearly!
Rick made it home on Monday (April 30, 2012) afternoon about 2pm

Car Races-Lakeport

After a busy day at the Moose with installation, the “boys” who were out in the boat all day, partying at Richmond Park wanted to head over to Lakeport for the Car Races!! Hurried and got done at the Moose, grabbed a plate of food and out the door I went to meet them at home. We were all home about the same time, grabbed a few bites of that food I brought home, changed clothes and out the door we went! We got to the races about 5:30 or so! Haven’t been in many years.. When I used to go the races were called the “Hard Tops”.. hehehe.. doesn’t seem to be the case these days.. There are so many different names these days.. Here are some of the names of the different category’s >>MODIFIEDS, BOMBERS, PRO-JAMMERS, JR-JAMMERS OUTLAWS, MINI STOCKS, BANDOLEROS (this was the best, 9 years olds!), B.C.R.A. MIDGETS.
Tonight was our last night with brother Rick, he is leaving in the morning, early.. We had a GREAT TIME at the races! If you are in Lake County, CA you should try it.. it is fun!
We had a few beers, some JUNK food.. (like fair food) Meet some nice gals from here.. Jeanne and Kathy… They shared their red licorice with us..
We hope Rick will come back soon! He is now offically retired, however you know the guy will never stop really working!! He needs to come here and relax.. We love you brother Rick! Come back anytime!!

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Here is some trivia for you>> The kids can race starting at the early age of 8 years old, with kids being able to transfer into the Legend cars when complete a certain amount of time and races or when they hit 14 years old.  We look forward to a very good and exciting year with the Bandoleros making their debut at the speedway for a full race season  in 2012..Check out the Lakeport Speedway!! <<click on Lakeport Speedway..

Installation at the Moose Lodge 2012

“Out with the old and in with the New”, was the theme for this years May 28th Installation of Officers at our Moose Lodge. I was this year’s installing regent. Irma Guilbert was the installing chairman. The ceremony is a basic ritual inducting new officers to take their roles as the new leaders of the WOTM (Woman of The Moose). We have not done this ritual for about 5 years, due to Mooseheart saying we no longer need to have it.  However the down fall of not having the ritual, the woman whom are taking office feel that they have not been honored or duly sworn in and therefore seem to take their positions no quite as serious as one might think.
I do believe this year with the leadership of Pam Rowland (new senior regent) and her full plate of officers and chairman! I fore see this year to be prosperous and successful!
Good Luck to all of our new officers!!

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Photos of Clearlake

On my way over to the Paradise Beach House today I stopped

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along the way to take some photos of the lake. With all the clouds/sun/blue skies there were some great shots of the lake.

Spring Clean up at The Paradise Beach House

Thank God for a great brother, Rick.. He built us a wall onto the “lean to” we have on the side of the garage to keep our washer/dyer safe from the elements. He is so fast that he was done by the time I got there with lunch! Of course we need to paint it too.,. The wall was done so there were other chores that needed tending. We spent the day cleaning up around the yard, etc.. Had a couple of beers then were on our way.

 

 

Weekend with family/friends in Petaluma

Rick was out on the lake fishing first thing Friday morning! Like the “crack” of dawn, 6 am!!! dang.. He was all over the place out there, we could see him from the deck going from place to place, trying to catch that “BIG” one! However seems like he was catching the “LITTLE” ones.. At least he didn’t get skunked.
Rick got in and Ev went down to get Rick and the boat.. They got the boat put away and Rick packed up and headed down to Petaluma. He had made arrangements to stay with our sister Kim for 2 nights. His first evening was spent with some long time friends Phil & Toni Brooks.
On Saturday night John & Kim hosted the family and some friends over for bb-q.. John is a great cook. He cooked a New York strip, with twice baked potatoes, broccoli w/cheese and corn on the cob! Everyone pitched in for hors d'oeuvres, lot and lots!! Probably didn’t even need dinner!
It was wonderful to visit with everyone. Nice to see faces that we hadn’t seen for awhile and catch up.
Sunday Morning we were invited over for omelets at Kim’s and Rick was making the omelets and Kim was doing everything else. We arrived about 9am.. Phil & Toni had already arrived, Lindsy and Chris also joined us..
Our omelets were made a different way than I had ever made them. Rick & Kim had cut up all the ingredients.. You know onion, pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese.. Rick was whipping up a couple of eggs in a cup and then each one of us had a small zip lock bag with our name on it. We were instructed to fill our zip locks with what we wanted in our omelets and then the egg went in on top, we got as much “air” out of the bag as possible, then tossed the bag into a pot of boiling water for about 15 minutes!! OMG! What a fantastic omelet that was!! Never had one like that before.. It was so cool. We also had bagels, fresh fruit, some champagne/oj for mimosas.. Everyone enjoyed their breakfast.. Lindsy, Chris and Colin headed for the “A”s” game.. We finished up said our good byes and we headed home..
Rick followed us till he got bored.. then he zoooomed by us and headed home.. We met at the house then headed for Robinsons Rancheria for a little “gamble” time.. Rick broke even and Ev & I made $172 on the dollar machine and out the door we went!! We had discussed that we would eat dinner in Lakeport at “TJ’s”, opened about 2 years ago.. It is decent and the atmosphere is pretty nice too.. especially for Lake County.. We had  nice dinner and a few drinks.. Then headed home for a relaxing evening..

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The BIG one didn’t get away!

Finally after Rick’s 4th day of being here, he finally gets to go fishing! Bought a dozen minnows for $14!! YICKS! Had one bite and one fish! Fish was probably about 7#’s! Catch & Release! But you know “the worst day fishing is better than the best day working”. Rick is now retired?? well semi-retired. We have been having so much fun!

 

Eveee that fishing going to bite you!!!

Hamburgers at the Moose

Whimpy Burger Wednesday…
Actually today Rick & Ev were going to go fishing… Got the boat out, but couldn’t get the outdrive to go up or down.. Made a few calls and fooled around with it for about 4 hours and got it to work. Seems the wires that went onto the battery from the motor of the outdrive, the ends were a bit big and weren’t touching the terminals.. uummm.. oh well it is fixed so Thursday will be the fishing day! So to fill the latter part of the day we took a ride over to the lake house so Rick (who is on vacation) could look at the wall I wanted him to build.. hehehe (some vacation huh?). We got the material list that he needed to build this wall out on the laundry shed..   We also picked up Rick’s fishing license, some tackle so they can fish on Thursday!
Finally Whimpy Burgers were consumed by all! Best burgers in Clearlake/Clearlake Oaks! Thomas does a fantastic job!

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Post replacement on the deck

Rick had me order the posts for this replacement a few months back. Now on the day after he arrives for his 2 week vacation, I put him to work!! Bad sister! Both Ev and I are so happy to have this done. I have been worrying about it for sometime now. Thanks Rick great job! Great apprentice you have with you!!

 

Celebration of Rick’s Visit

Rick arrived about 9:30am this Monday morning. Of course he had driven all night to get here. We invited Rich, Judy, Charles, Rob & Gayle over for dinner.

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Easter spent with special friends

 

Our Easter was wonderful we spent it with some dear friends, Larry, Lynn, Laura and Lee.. We enjoyed cocktails before dinner at the bar. Just as we were to sit down Alaina (our housekeeper and special friend) stopped by for a shore visit, got some food and away she went. Little stinker!
We started our dinner with some homemade Clam Chowder, then moved on to the serious food, spiral ham, sweet potatoes and cauliflower. Topped off the dinner with homemade Lemon Meringue Pie. Everyone got a small Easter basket with some little goodies and some colored eggs to take home for a egg salad sandwich..

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Lindsy’s 35th Birthday Party

What an evening!!! It is Saturday March 31st and we are about celebrate Lindsy’s 35th Birthday! Actual b-day April 2nd.
Lindsy & Chris made reservations for 9 of us at Graziano’s in Petaluma at about 8pm Saturday evening.
Lindsy & Chris invited everyone (9 of us) to come by their house for a drink and some hor'duerves. And then we would call a/2 cabs to take us downtown for dinner and more drinks.
After a couple of hours of visiting and sharing stories, we all piled into the cabs and off we went for a hell of a great time!
We arrived at Graziano’s and bellied up to the bar. Well, where we could squeeze in. The place was packed, however we all managed to worm our way to the bar. We got our drinks and partied had another drink and then to the table we went. As you can imagine with all this booze we needed some food to tone us all down.. Not sure the food helped? From what I can remember our dinner was delicious. Everyone seemed ot have something different. I had the pork tenderloin, it was amazing! So good! I didn’t hear anyone complain about their dinner, so guess it was all good!!
While we were all sitting there we decided we were going to Mario & Johns for the second leg of partying! We called an a long time acquaintance Bob Hatfield was bartending. I called Bob (a different voice from the past) and said this was “Linda Moyles” we would like to come down if you are going to open for awhile? He said “come on down”.. We finished up our dinner, Lindsy’s birthday cake and off we went once again in the cabs! I do believe Bob was surprised to see us all there together.. There was Lindsy, Chris, Mike, Julia, Everett, me, Jeff, Cesar and my sister Kim. We visited with Bob a little.. Hadn’t seen Bob in quite a few years (maybe 14? years), it was nice to see him, this guy is ageless, looked the same, scary. I am sure he wished we all had not come in to keep him there till nearly 12:30 before we all left.. It was Drunkfest”.. We all had such a fun time!
I am not sure how we all piled into the van/cab (all 9 of us) to get back to Lindsy & Chris house. But we did.. Lindsy had a slight problem exiting the van, as you will see in the last pic.. LOL thankfully she wasn’t hurt.. She missed the “curb”?
I am so grateful that we all had such a wonderful time! Lindsy was thrilled to have everyone with her to celebrate her birthday! Pictures are funny!!

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My New Hat..

Mid Week getaway Ft Bragg

A few months ago I received and invitation from Travelzoo to experience The North Cliff Hotel in Ft Bragg for the great price of $199 for two nights stay, dinner certificate and champagne at the Cliff House Restaurant and some tickets to the Botanical Gardens in Ft Bragg. I really had never considered ever doing some nights in Ft Bragg other than maybe in the trailer.. Not sure why I never thought of it before, but the invitation sounded like a wonderful idea.
We were so impressed by the lovely view, the clean rooms, tastefully decorated, quite and serene. We could hear the fog horns in the night as well as the buoy bell on occasion because we left our sliding glass door open just a little overnight. We were situated on the 2nd floor with such a fabulous view of the Noyo Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. We watched the fishing boats coming in and going out of the harbor. There were seals in the harbor, there were whales breaching and spouting that we could see in the distance. The weather was over all pretty nice! Considering I think we were lucky to be there between storms.
Our first day we arrived we got to the hotel about 2:30 had some snacks and then took a walk out the break water from the harbor to the sea. It was cool, cloudy and breezy and the tide was turning to come in. There were some fisherman along the breakwater fishing, catching some nice fish for their dinners I am sure. After that walk we were still full from our snacks so we decided we should take another walk so we could think about having dinner about 7pm at the Cliff House restaurant right across the way (across the bridge to the right) located right on the edge of the harbor. I am not sure but I think we walked about 3 or 4 miles, so we could walk off those snacks! We walked the long way down to Noyo Harbor. Got some great shots of the harbor, some of the fishing boats and restaurant's!
We arrived to the Cliff House Restaurant about 7pm that evening as the sun was just setting over the ocean. We were seated in an elevated booth over looking the arm of the harbor into the Pacific. Lovely view. We were admiring a appetizer a gentleman had in the next booth over so we asked him what it was, it looked delicious!!! uumm.. obviously our appetite had returned. The lovely appetizer was a “Crab Martini”, uummm..

Of course we Ev and I shared one with our cocktails. BTW great Vodka Martini and Roy Roy..
Ev ordered a Clam Linguini and I had the Delmonico Steak (16oz) with portabella mushrooms. Both dinners were prepared perfectly, presented well and delicious! The service was very good too. The girls, Megan and Debbie were so sweet and attentive. Great evening..
Thursday we woke to a beautiful sunny, blue skies day!! The ocean was gorgeous!!!

Now to plan for the day.. We had a light breakfast in the room. The hotel offered a continental breakfast.
We decided to take a walk over the bridge down to “Chicken Point” across the way from us, about 2 miles one way. As we were leaving our friends Jim & Shirley called and asked we wanted company? We said “OF COURSE”! They were already on their way, so they would be in Ft Bragg about 1130am.. It was only 930am, so we had plenty of time to do our walk and then get ready for the day.
Jim & Shirley arrived about 1130am, we popped a bottle of champagne and toasted away! Jim had a brandy (his fav). We then headed over to Silvers at the Wharf for lunch. Ev and I shared a uumm delicious crab melt with a bowl of clam chowder, while Jim & Shirley both had something different. Shirley had a Shrimp Louis and Jim had steamer clams. We all enjoyed our lunch and we ready to move on.. We all decided we wanted to drive down to Mendocino and visit “Dicks Place” and have a couple of cocktails.. after a couple we were all plenty silly enough by now and decided we should do some site seeing, walking of course. We visited a couple little shops, walked through a old lovely hotel (not sure of the name) and then we walked along the cliffs above the ocean. It was now getting late and very cool with that strong breeze. It was time to part ways. Jim & Shirley were going to drive home and we were headed back to the hotel.
We got back to the hotel and decided we needed to take another walk over to “Chicken Point”.. What a beautiful day!! We enjoyed a spectacular sunset over the Pacific.
Got back to our room, had some snacks kicked back and before you knew it, we were out like lights!!
Friday we slept in a bit..then took a nice walk over to “Chicken Point” again.. Got the blood going. After our invigorating walk, we were ready for the day! We got showered, packed up and headed out. First stop, “Eggheads” . BEST CRAB OMELETS EVER!! Guess I don’t need to say anything else! My mouth is watering as I write this, so better not stay on this subject long! It’s a 2 hours drive to Ft Bragg and they are now closed for the day..
Next we went to the Botanical Gardens.. Due to it being early spring, not much was in bloom. However the “roddies” were highly in bloom and breathtakingly beautiful! Thank God there was the roddies and the gorgeous coast line to enjoy. I am not sure that there is anything more beautiful in the world than our California Coast Line..especially on a sunny day. We looly gaged around the gardens for awhile enjoying nature at its finest..
Got home about 5pm..
Enjoy the pics!!

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Moose Lodge to Host Farmers Market

FARMERS MARKET
EVERY WEDNESDAY
JUNE 6TH THROUGH OCTOBER 3RD
(EXCLUDING HOLIDAYS)
3PM-7PM
Interested vendors call the Moose Lodge for more details, call Thomas 707.998.3740
click to view more info
http://www.mooselodge2284.org/events/farmersmarket.htm

Moose Lodge 2284 New Website

As many of your know, I do quite a bit of work with the computer.. an understatement? Don’t laugh I am trying to be modest.. I just love to have fun with it! So many people don’t like the computer, because they feel it is “work” related. However some people just realize how fun it can be too! I love the computer and quite honestly I could spend all my days here, playing around..Not to healthy..ok it’s winter..
About a month ago or so, I was talking with the Administrator Thomas DeWalt and he was going to spend lots of $$$$ to have a website built. I told him I could probably do it and it wouldn’t be anything fancy, but clean and simple to navigate and that my services were FREE!! I do believe the key word was “FREE”! I started working on it about 2 weeks ago and got it up and running within about 10 days (and possibly about 40-50 hours plus).. As I said nothing fancy, easy to navigate, etc.. Of course the most interesting pages are the “Events” & “Photos”, there is also the “calendar”, the “newsletter”(this page is in deed of some creativity) and of course the “woman of the moose” as well as the “loyal order of the moose”, the men. “Home” has all the fancy buttons with a couple of nice pictures of the lodge that I took on a beautiful almost spring day.
Hope you will enjoy going through the site.. Here is the link>>
http://www.mooselodge2284.org/

We have some really GREAT events coming up in the next couple of months at the Moose. There is our camping trip up to Lewiston Moose Lodge over Memorial Day Weekend, Taste of the Lake Wine Festival, featuring local wineries, art, food, etc.. It’s going to be a fabulous event!!! that is June 3rd. That same week we are introducing our “Farmers Market” at the lodge! Not sure what else the summer will bring, but will try and keep you posted with our “Events” page!

Rossmoor at Walnut Creek

Our friend Lee Barry moved over the weekend to a wonderful retirement living community nearby Walnut Creek/Lafayette area called Rossmoor. Rossmoor is approx. 7,000 retired people.
Lee asked us to do some shopping at Costco before we arrived on Sunday. Loaded up the Toyota.. Arrived early afternoon at Lee’s new condo.. Lee’s sister Bonnie and her husband Terry were there as well, trying to help Lee get settled.
Lee’s place is cute.. it is a 2 bedroom/1 bath, approx. 1050 sq feet, upper level, nice views of the trees. Very quite, seems rural lots of wild life, turkeys, geese, dear, squirrels, etc.. everywhere!
We helped out getting things put away, organized and cleaned that afternoon. Lee too us to dinner at?? OMG forgot the name of the place.. I know it was a sports bar in Walnut Creek and it was packed! Ok.. looked it up, it is called McCovey’s Sport Bar.. dahhh We had a very nice dinner there.  Lots of fun things going on there!



I was perfectly horrible about taking pics over the couple of days that we were there.. too busy working I guess?
So what you see above, is it!
Monday morning when my feet hit the floor I started working cleaning, emptying boxes, organizing boxes, hanging pictures, etc.. Ev & Lee went to McDonalds got us breakfast while I tried to get as much done as I could before showering and getting ready for the rest of day to meet friends for lunch and get home. I felt that we made good headway getting things put away, etc.. Lee mainly needed to put more personal items away. I think he was pretty tired when we left. at about 2pm.
Before we came down to Walnut Creek, friends George and Carol asked if we would have time to meet for lunch at a place called “Chow” in Lafayette? While driving down on Sunday I “texted” them and let them know that would be the perfect ending to our day on Monday! And beside George & Carol just got back from a fabulous cruise in the orient!!
We met them at the restaurant “Chow” and it was so great to see them! They already looked rested and they had only been home less than a week! We got and gave great hugs to both! Listened to some wonderful stories they shared with us about their trip!! Be sure to visit Carol & George’s blog at >>
candgtravels or http://cngtravels.blogspot.com/ << Carol is the photographer in the family and takes some very detailed/beautiful photos, however not to say that George doesn’t also take wonderful pictures too!! We just had the nicest visit with them! They are exciting and fun people! Their next trip is the “Kentucky Derby” again!!  Tally Ho!!
(Carol and I both didn’t take pictures on Monday)..

New England Clam Chowder (Cali Style)

Best Clam Chowder.. Original recipe came from our moose member Kim Frietas
Click here for printable version>> http://www.clearlakevacationsonline.com/recipes/clamchowder.pdf

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Moose Lodge Carnitas Dinner

The carnitas dinner was a big hit!! SOLD OUT!! I do believe the sopapilla cheesecake pie was a huge sensation!! It is all gone too. So over all the dinner was successful!! 
I believe we sold about 40 plus dinners.
I guess SOLD OUT pretty much says it was good..
I strongly recommend you try my dessert sopapilla cheesecake pie, it is very good, cheap to make and everyone will love it! Especially if they are like/love sweets.

Printable Version>> http://www.clearlakevacationsonline.com/recipes/sopapilla_cheesecake_pie.pdf
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Rob Roy Brunch

This would be day 4 of our busy busy weekend! We had our monthly meeting with our Philosophical Society at the Rob Roy this morning at 11am. Had a great turn out, about 24 this morning.. Not bad..
As always Faith & Rudy come festively dressed (st paddy’s day), for which I had forgotten completely.. oh well there is always next year. Cristina was also dress in green along with some other festively dressed people.. We enjoyed a fabulous seafood omelet this morning for our breakfast. Rob Roy Golf & Country Club always do a wonderful job with the food as well as the service. Due to Easter and then Mother’s Day falling on the 2nd Sunday of the month, we won’t be having our monthly meetings again till June.

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We finished with the philosophers and off we went to Robinsons.. Ev and I played our $10 bucks, won $150 and we were out of there.. Tomorrow is the last day of the stretch of a terribly busy schedule.. Tomorrow (Monday) we cook at the Moose!! Carnitas.. cooking as I write..

Woman of the Moose Luncheon/Fashion Show

The first annual Spring Luncheon/Fashion Show was held on Saturday March 10, 2012.
The hall was festively decorated with the theme of St. Paddys’ day. Everyone did a fantastic job! We had Lasagna with all the trimming for lunch. One our new members “Personal Chef Mary” prepared all the food. Yummy..
Our day started at the Moose about 11am. I was one of 8 models for the show. We (models) needed to arrive early so we could get what exactly we were going to do. This was the first time and we did pretty darn good..
Most all us dressed in the woman’s office and really it wasn’t too bad. The models were, Me, Lynn Ringuette, Judy DeWolfe, Barbara Higman, Colleen Chatoff, Donna Brown (our bartender at the Moose) and Jana Heller a new member of the moose. We all had a fun time strutting our stuff!!
You can view the slideshow on “youtube”..
Or you can click here>> view Fashion Show

Dinner with Larry & Lynn

Larry & Lynn invited us to dinner on Friday night earlier in the week and we were going to TJ’s in Lakeport. We hadn’t been there yet, so this was going to be a nice treat for us!!
We met L & L at the Moose and Larry drove. We stopped in Kelseyville at a little bar called the “The Brick”, really old place wit lots of character! Cool little place, had one drink and then off we went to TJ’s.
We arrived with no reservations, didn’t really seem like we needed them. Atmosphere is friendly, not to dimly lit, and the bar was a “U” shape making it even more inviting.. So we all sat at the bar and most of us had wine. The bartender set us up with a table for dinner. We were seated and our wait person took our order, 3 of us had the seafood Linguine and Lynn had prime rib.. food was good and reasonably priced, service was?? ok.. We would go back.. Can’t always judge by the first experience. Larry chauffeured us back to the Moose and then went in and had another drink..Ev didn’t drink so I managed to drink enough for both of us. Of course I knew I would pay for it the next day.. And of course that was the big day of our Woman of the Moose Fashion show.. Oh Lord..

Bakers Retirees Luncheon

We were on the road early on this Thursday morning (3/8/12) so we could make it to the luncheon for the Bakers Retiree Luncheon at Francesco’s in Oakland on Heggenberger by the Oakland airport.
Our friend Lee Barry is the President/Secretary/ Treasurer/etc.. poor guy has all the jobs.. Does pretty good at getting it all together.
We had a short visit before we had to hit the road to get home. It is nearly a 3 hour drive one way!! Spent more time on the road than we did visiting with everyone.. It was a nice day..

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Moose Lodge 2284 Website

On Sunday after our outing hiking, I started working on the website for our Moose Lodge.. To my amazement I couldn’t believe how long it had been since I had NOT DESIGNED A WEBSITE! OMG! It was like I had no imagination at all,! I looked at what I was doing and I was in?? Well?? I can’t even relay my total disappointment of what I thought I had! Looked like I had never done anything creative in my whole life! BLAH. BORING, ETC….After Sunday (maybe because I was so physically exhausted from hiking all day?), on Monday things started to look better.. Thank God for Janelle my niece.. she helped me to put things in perspective.. awww.. I worked on the website nearly 14 hours on Monday!! TRANSFORMATION happened! woo hooo and Thank God! Tuesday was a couple of hours work, then Wednesday a few more hours and waaa laaa.. we have a nice, simple, clean working website.. I am ok with it.. would like it too look a little better… but for the beginning, it is alright.. check it out for yourself.. Here is the link>>http://www.clearlakevacationsonline.com/moose2284/loom2284/ <<this link only will work till we get the new home for it’s real website.. hopefully it will be http://www.mooselodge2284.org ?? we hope to get that done on Thursday March 8, 2012.. So far I am happy with it..

Hike to Frog Pond via Cache Creek Regional Park

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We were having breakfast and talking about what we were going to do today. The weather is so beautiful today, expected highs in the mid 70’s!! I had the idea to “drive” up by Chico/Paradise area and then up on the Feather River… Ev said we should go to Cache Creek and hike (hiking is more healthy, so we opted to hike).. So we packed up a lunch, us and the dogs and off we went. We got to the park about 11am and we were on our way. The weather was perfect! I wore shorts and tank top, Ev started out with long sleeves, however soon the long sleeve shirt came off. We took both Ripley and Kaylee with us.. Kaylee just rips through the trails like they’re flat and Ripley with his bad back knee got to hitch a ride with “Mom” or “Dad”.. Mom has the “puppy pack” so it is easy to take him.. Of course when I was packing him up hill it was quite the workout! We had a nice lunch (tuna sandwiches) at the pond, where we could see and hear the frogs!! Nice hike.. On a scale of 1 to 5, and 5 being the most difficult, I would say it was about a 2 hike. We hiked 5 miles round trip up to Frog Pond..
We found out about a new website today it is called www.yolohiker.org .. This website shows all the places where you can hike in Yolo County, that is one county down from us..  Lake County, CA hiking trails is>> http://www.lakecounty.com/things/Nature/Trails.htm