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Merry Christmas

well, i didn’t do much blogging last year. looking back i can’t believe it. we didn’t do any traveling, but i did want to post a lot of other things. the name of the blog is ‘see the usa’ which we didn’t do, so i guess i will have to change the title this year. we will probably keep our travels in california now. there is still a lot we haven’t seen and a lot we want to see again.

so ‘california here we come’ will be the new title.

i had cataract surgery early this month which kept me from sending out christmas cards. I was constantly putting in eye drops for weeks.  I had 4 medications that I put in 4 times a day. It was hard to focus. Yesterday was the last day. 

we didn’t put up the tree or set up the polar express train this year. I did put my bottle brush trees in the living room window.

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and my glass trees in the dining room window.

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And more bottle brush trees in the kitchen window. I’m getting quite a collection of them. They are one my favorite things of Christmas.

I couldn’t do a post without our hats. Jose came over as we were trying to figure out how to do it. It turned out good. Thanks Jose.

We’re going to Tony’s for dinner tonight and tomorrow we will go to the Queen Mary with Kara. So we will miss Chris and Jose’s evening with his family this year.

So you all have a jolly good time this Christmas.

❤️ Love jillyandjerry ❤️

 

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smell the roses

hi, today is the running of the roses in kentucky, so i thought i would share some of my roses today. it’s the first bloom when almost every bush is full of roses.

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this picture is from my camera

 

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this one is from linda’s iphone. i like it better

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my ‘distant drums’ rose is in the middle

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here it is. we first saw it in oregon and i fell in love with it.

 

 

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frank and linda brought over lasagna and we dined ‘al fresco’ under the trees

 

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now back to the kentucky derby

we always place a bet with my brother, who lives in reno, for this race. we’re not followers of the sport like he is so i usually go by the names. i do like bob baffert horses, as he has a good track record. i have a trifecta with three of his horses running today. ‘game winner’ ‘roadster’ and ‘improbable’. if any one of them win, i win.  celia bet on ‘maximum ‘security’and tactitus to win. it’s fun to watch the race on our big screen tv. we always make one trip to the sportsbook lounge while we are in reno. which is coming up.

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the race starts at 3:52 on nbc. i’ll be watching.

until the next time ,jilly

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2019 is off and running

we had a nice christmas and a quiet new year. tony and thuy prepared a delicious dinner. the girls seemed to like all their presents and jessica was here from oregon and thuys father from las vegas. no matter how small your family is it’s nice to be together.  christmas cards are not sent as much now, but i still love sending and receiving them.

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i hope you all are having a happy new year so far. does anyone make resolutions anymore?  i did but extended it until the chinese new year, (hannahs idea). the year of the pig starts this tuesday. the year of the pig? how can i cut down on beer in the year of the pig? i am working on it and jerry has quit all together.

we’re going to have a very quiet travel year in 2019. we do have plans to go to reno in june. as many times as we have been there, it’s never been during the rodeo. so this time we are going especially when the rodeo is there. as much as i love horses, i’m really looking forward it. of course i’m looking forward to seeing ted (my brother) also. we don’t have plans for anything else——-yet.

we don’t have to go out in the rain, so these last storms have been nice for us. watching them from our windows. i know many people suffer greatly with large amounts of damage to their homes. and lives are lost to traffic accidents. the weather is changing dramatically these days. be safe out there.20190202_121505

of course the weather brings us beautiful clouds. can’t get enough of those.

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“off we go, into the wild blue yonder”

 

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looking towards signal hill

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california clouds

 

 

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the walking path in signal hill

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looking towards the mountains. what a view these houses have

 

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you can see the mountains in this picture

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and when we got home

 

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the clouds were all around us

 

i really feel grateful for everything in my life right now. i love all of you cheering me on for something i love to do. even though we won’t have travel pictures to show you, i’d love to keep the blog going with things i find interesting. hope you find them interesting too.

happy new year

stay tuned

love, jilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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hi everyone. it’s that time of year again. busy, busy, busy. so many things to do. it’s all pretty enjoyable though.  my favorite thing now is the music. singing along with the carols that we have been singing since we were kids.  silent night is probably my favorite. can any of you name yours?

opal agrees with me. i love pickles. jerry still reads it to me every morning. he read this one yesterday morning. i started the blog a day before that.

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we had trouble taking a picture with our hats this year. we thought we would take it at the senior party, but santa looked pretty bad. i think he’s been sick.  we thought we could take it at sharon’s outreach party, but we had to leave before santa was done with the kids. her church goes into poorer neighborhoods with food, presents, and a visit from santa, where every child gets a age appropriate toy.  sharon has been taking the pictures of this event and all events at her church (community christian church in baldwin park) for over 15 years. you go girl!

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hannah and her boyfriend are staying with us until march, then they move all the way to tacoma, washington for new jobs. we decided to have them join us in the yard  and be in the christmas picture . it was a lot of fun but the sun wasn’t cooperating. it took a lot of tries to get one.

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we did get one at jerry’s cardiac rehab party friday that would have been great for the card.

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here’s a few more pictures i wanted to share.

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hannah and tracy both brought me back puzzles from their trip to london. very small and very challenging. especially the one on the bottom. it was made out of wood.

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we had very beautiful sunsets after the tragic fires. can you see the heart? jerry says it’s mickey mouse?

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tony photobombed a picture i was taking of emily, thuy, and amy.  no jerry had nothing to do with it. and emily just celebrated her 15th birthday.

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we also got to see sam harris again. he was performing downtown long beach. his front row seats were way cheaper than cher’s.

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trip sept 08 606i found a picture of the first time we went to new york and saw the statue of liberty

 

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we’re going out to dinner with dick and jessie (from the blog) to trani’s tonight. then stop at chris and jose’s for a little while. maybe watch ‘bad santa’ on netflix when we get home. we’ll go to tony’s tomorrow for the gift giving and dinner made by tony.

hope you all have a “Merry Christmas” and lots of joy throughout 2019.

 

 

love, jilly

 

 

ps….midas already got his present. a new blankie for the porch. thanks gregg. he loves it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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odds and ends

a few things i noticed while driving around

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an interesting bus bench.  probably a homeless deterrent. 

 

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telephone poles with five stacked horizontal wires 

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celine is finally leaving las vegas. 

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a ”tiny house; trailer. 

 

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an important item 

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ray. this would be a good way for you and martha to travel with us

 

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this sure looked like an additional wynn hotel across the street from the wynn. i looked on line and it doesn’t seem to be. check it out on wikipedia. it’s going to be huge and cost billions.

 

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we wondered if this truck was the same year as the bronc we saw

 

 

 

 

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our last stop was the goodwill outlet center. i found a few good things.

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this is where my patience comes in handy

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jerry was going to stop and look at this on the way home. it’s been abandoned for years. you’ve all probably seen it.

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but you can’t  get in

 

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i did the blog from the back on the trip home. it’s too bouncy up front.

guess that’s it for this trip. thanks to frankandlinda, hannahandjavier, and all the neighbors that watch our house. we’ll be happy to get back.

we don’t have another trip planned yet, but you don’t know when i might decide to post.

so stay tuned.

see you all soon.

i love you all, jillyandjerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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leaving las vagas

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the day has come that all trips have. the last day and you have to go home. this was a short one but it was packed with fun. and food.

 

 

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we ate at pho mai mai twice. thuy’s younger sister and her husband own this very popular restaurant. when we walked in almost everyone had a bowl of their most popular item, pho, on their tables. jerry and i were treated to vietnamese sandwiches – another popular item. it comes with soup. notice something in the bowl.  we also got the b-b-q shrimp skewers. my most popular item on the menu.

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in the same shopping center is the nail shop thuy’s brother owns. we’ve been going here since they opened. jerry got the deluxe pedicure and i got a simple manicure, pink to match my hair. haha. we were treated to this too.

 

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two wonderful meals at mon ami gabi

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we were sitting at the table behind the couple on the left

 

 

we had four home cooked meals at the cracker barrel.

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which is a hard thing to choose sometimes

 

 

these pictures of stuff on the walls at cracker barrel are lousy, but you get my thought at at taking them. everything old is new again.

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we played dominos while jerry ate his pecan apple pie. he won.

 

 

i think i have a few more picture, so stay tuned.

thanks for coming along with us.

love, jilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the machines don’t call us to them anymore. we have not put in one penny yet. it  isn’t as much fun anymore. there’s no bells and whistles that go off or money falling in the metal tray making loud noises. people don’t hoot and holler either. a lot of the machines have keyboards. and i haven’t seen one big bertha yet. so not only are we saving money on hotel bills, we are saving money by not giving it to the machines. we are saving a lot of our money on food also.

frank and linda gave us a very generous  gift for our anniversary. we’ve eaten at ‘mon  ami gabi’ twice and haven’t spent any of our money. they have eaten here, they know how good the food is. they treated us to dinner last year too. wish you could have been here with us. thank you so much.

we take everybody who comes to vegas with us here. ray?

we had a good time at the bar for jerry’s birthday. another generous gift from our friend and ‘go to’ guy gregg, kept me in espresso martini’s . thanks gregg.

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the coffee beans stayed like this the whole drink.

 

we kept waiting and waiting for our pager to go off and it never did. we were having such  a good time with the bartender and customers it didn’t seem so bad. the bartender finally asked one of the hosts to check on it. come to find out, our pager was a dud. they called it but it never lit up. so we got special treatment from then on.

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our bartender jerry told a lot of jokes

he said he would take a dirty picture of us. that he took the best dirty pictures of anyone. so i gave him the camera and he pointed it at us and then at the people next to us. as we started laughing he pointed it back at us and this is what he got.

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we had a caeser salad and skate that night. it is the wing of a bat ray. it tastes like a very delicate mild fish. they tinkered with the recipe and now have went back to the original lemon caper sauce. it is our favorite thing to order. delicious.

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not a very good picture but this is what it looks like. 

 

jerry got a free apple tart for his birthday. that’s my favorite desert. of course he shared.

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make a wish

 

sitting on the rail seats you see lots of interesting people on the sidewalks walking by. kind of like new york. my picture of the showgirls didn’t turn out. darn. one had pasties on.  i don’t know if you would see that in new york.

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and of course these trucks with billboards drive by constantly. after all  las vegas is sin city.but then cher comes along and makes it better.

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and of course you see those magnificent fountains.

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it was a great day and great night. we still have fun here. it is what it is and you have to roll with it. there is good and bad in every situation. look for the good and find joy.

we went to some of our favorite thrift stores yesterday. we also went to the pawn stars pawn shop. jerry brought some of his mickey mouse watches but they weren’t worth anything. we ate at ‘mon ami gabi again’ last night. we didn’t have to wait as long for a patio seat this time. we like the caeser salad so much we had that again. with the steak classique and  frites this time, another favorite. then creme brulee for dessert. it doesn’t get much better than that.

except maybe to see such a spectacular desert sunset from the coach window.

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stay tuned for…………….?

love, jilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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jerry digs this city

it was finally time to go get jerry’s gift. jerry didn’t want to eat a big lunch so on the way to the place we got a piece of pizza, just like the pizza in new york, we got there in plenty of time and had to wait for everyone else to show up. it was going to start at four.

jerry was nervous and excited at the same time. this was something we hadn’t heard about before. as many times as we’be been here i had never seen it advertised. and it’s been here seven years. it’s not for everybody. i wouldn’t do it in a million years, but some women do. they said up to fifty percent of women enjoy it.

everyone got there by four.  there are a few preparations they go through in the office. i think there were six guys all together. i was going to sit in the coach and watch. i had a great view.

jerry walked by the coach on the way to the site.

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and here he is in the thing he will spend the next ninety minutes doing who knows what. it’s actually called an excavator. there were three of these out there and three bulldozers.

 

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i said whoaaaaaaaaa

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okay now he will dig dirt from this spot

 

 

and put it over in this spot

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the guy next to jerry had a bigger dirt pile than jerry’s

 

now he gets to pick up tires from here

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and put them back there, he did it four times

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this picture is an optical illusion. it looks like jerry is going to pick up the other bulldozer

 

i was standing right by this fence taking the pictures. i thought he was done and left so i went back to the coach. turns out he had one more thing that i missed. he had to grab basket balls in the huge bucket. he did it three times out of five. i would have got a great picture if i had stayed.

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I DID IT!

 

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and i have proof

 

 

jerry said it was a lot of fun,

he would do it again,

he recommends it to everyone

tony, you got try in next month

and ray, you would love all that power

 

happy birthday jerry, i’m glad you enjoyed it

don’t know what’s next

so stay tuned

love, jilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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another subject

jerry is loafing around this morning waiting for his present. so i thought i would do this post that i’ve been wanting to do since my birthday.

tracy sent me a wonderful and very thoughtful gift.

it came from shutterfly.

it was a puzzle.

unlike any puzzle i’ve ever done.

and i love puzzles

i got the outlilne done pretty quickly. with the exception of trying to put a piece in the wrong place. i got it figured out. several pieces were in the wrong place.

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the rest of the puzzle was happily challenging.

i’m sorry tracy, you went kind of disfigured for quite a while.

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i found it

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there you go. 

 

 

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those rocks were a booger to do

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i did it!

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look at the detail. this is the kitchen window.

i looked for this picture but never found the exact one. it was christmas. did you take it tracy? sutterfly did a good job with your greaaaaat picture.

thank you again for something so different for my birthday. i was thrilled to get it. i loved putting it together.

i have such great kids.

stay tuned, jilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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