Thanksgiving 2007

Happy Thanksgiving to All:

Mine was great. the kids; Rob, Lisa, Talia and Vinnie were here for the week, and we had a blast.

Toured Hoover Dam;

Did some geo-caching along the way. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's like a treasure hunt using a gps..............

After touring the Dam, we headed for Las Vegas to experience the night lights........

and experience Fremont Street;

although we were slightly disappointed with the light show, it was still quite an experience for the grandkids.

We also spent a day in Oatman, home of the wild burros, and the grandkids had a blast feeding them. This time Vinnie enjoyed it also.........

This baby burro is only a month old............

They also got to meet the new man in my life, Jim. (Jim's picture in on Rob's blog "Tatoshka"........ )

I hope that every one had as good of a Thanksgiving as I did.....

Sorry

Sorry that I haven't kept this updated, but I've been busy.............

My little bud is no longer with me, had to send him back, couldn't handle the allergies.

I've finally retired permanently, and am enjoying the retired life, floating in the pool catching rays and fishing.

Will try to do better in the future

I'm not spoiled already

Just because I have my own paper towel holder doesn't mean I'm spoiled in the least, it's just cause she doesn't want me on the counters......

New Family Member

Meet my little "Bub", don't ask my why, I just wanted some company an actually I was looking for a small dog, but when I walked into the animal shelter, Bud stuck his paw through the bars on his cage and started talking to me just like "Miss P...." use to and I just couldn't help myself.

He goes Tuesday to have his "man hood" taken care of, all I need is for him to start marking things.

wild weather

Rob's neighbors, shortly after the cemetary. Had high winds and hail. What a day.
Had to call the fire department to get it down, those are live power lines.

Peace at last

March 27, 2007

Adrian R. Edick

EDICK, ADRIAN R. Adrian R. Edick lost his long battle with cancer and went to his final rest on March 12, 2007 in Bullhead City, Arizona, where he was residing with his second wife Maneta. Adrian was born in Muskegon, Michigan on June 24, 1938 to Marion and Margaret Edick. Adrian was retired U.S. Navy after 20 years in 1971, and had also retired from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 1993. Adrian was a Past Commander and life member of Fred L. Kent VFW Post 7907, in Poway, CA. He resided in Poway from 1971 to 1993 and again in 2002/2003. He was preceded in death by his first wife Mildred (Taylor) Edick, whom he married in August of 1966. He is survived by his three children; son James (Johanna) Edick of Jersey City, NJ; daughters Tammie (Frank) McGill of Warner Springs, CA, and Tania (Kevin) Doran of Las Vegas, NV; stepsons Robert (Lisa) Bencivenga of Escondido, CA, and Dennis (Sheila) Bencivenga of San Diego, CA, and stepdaughter Nadine Bencivenga of Ashland, OR. He is also survived by six grandchildren Josh, Theresa, Cheyenne, Talia, Vincent and Jasper. He is survived by his sisters Luria (Dennis) Anderson of Fruitport, MI, and Shelly (Dan) Chambers of Grand Rapids, MI; brothers Al (Maureen) Edick of Etowah, NC, Arnie (Nancy) Edick of Muskegon, MI, and Roger (Judy) Edick of Spring Lake, MI, and numerous nieces and nephews. Our beloved father and friend will be greatly missed, may he rest in peace. Adrian was cremated and his ashes will be interred at Dearborn Memorial, in Poway CA along side his first wife Mildred on March 27, 2007 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to your charity of choice in Adrian's name.Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 3/25/2007.

Still Kicking

I didn't realize how long it has been since I've last posted. Boy has alot been going on.

Hubby has been diagnosed with liver cancer, and we are on the last leg of the journey, and what a tough one it has been.

All the kids except for two of them were here this weekend, James will be here Monday night and I don't think Na will be able to make it down.

I've taken a leave of absence from work for the time being so that I can do what has to be done.

Will post more later.

I'm Back!!

Hi everyone;

Bet you thought I'd given up on the blogging, not really have just been soooo busy I haven't had the time.

I'm back to work at the "World Famous Watch Man" in the Riverside Casino, and I've been uploading some pictures on my son Roberts site, check it out. It's Bencivenga.us , look under photo albums, mine is "Maneta - Mom.

Later all..

Just lazy

Sorry I haven't posted lately, when there is nothing going on it's pretty hard to post.

All is well on the Arizona front, the weather is finally starting to warm up and pool weather is on the horizon, if they ever finish refurbishing the pool.

Jury Duty

It's been quite awhile since I've posted, but I've been rather busy the last couple of weeks.

I've had to serve on a Jury, I won't go into details about the trial. It would make for a really-really-really long story. However I want to share with you my feeling about having to serve.

I had my doubts that I would be picked, but there you go, I was doing my own thinking again. I dreaded having to spend the time sitting in a court room, as if I have so many pressing things to do like take Hubby across the river to a Casino. I'm glad now that I did take the time, actually I really didn't have a choice.

During the process of choosing a Jury, the Judge had a list of questions that were asked, like have you ever had to call for assistance from the Police Dept, have you any relatives that are on the police force, do you know the attorneys, ect. Now I could have lied and told some whoppers of a story just so that I would be dismissed, but I didn't, I answered truthfully even telling about our old manager Larry and the episode of the oleanders, which got a chuckle out of the Judge when he asked me if I had been afraid, and I answered no, " I was really pissed off at the son-of-a-b___h."

During the trial I learned quite a bit about the process, and how the laws of this land are there to supposedly protect the victim, but in reality only aid the criminal lawyers in truly bending the law to protect the criminal. What an eye opener, and it confirmed the fact "documentation, documentation", and follow through.

Had the police followed through on their investigation we would have gotten the verdict that was necessary, we did find the man guilty of his crime, but not the maximum he should have got.

What an eye opener it was, and though it's a bother a person should at one time in his life serve on a Jury a great learning experience.

Macho or Bird Brain?

Thursday was a "weird" day. While in the kitchen cooking I could hear this bird, which sounded like it was in the bedroom trying to get out. This totally confused me since we hadn't been outside, it was cold in the 50's and the wind was just horrendous. A totally nasty day.

I walked back to the bedroom trying to find this trapped bird and hopefully catch it and send it on is way. How wrong was I.

The trapped bird was actually on the outside of the sliding glass door, it has the reflective film on it to keep the sun out. He was throwing himself at the glass fighting with the bird he could see.

This isn't the best picture, but it was taken from the inside and if you look closely you can see him.

Here he is on the side of the screen.

I went outside to get a better picture, but to no avail. So I chased him off or so I thought. I no sooner got back inside and there he was, back again.

He was there all day, trying to chase off the other bird that had invaded his territory. I think he wore himself out. Haven't seen him since.

I haven't decided if he's a bird brain or just one macho house sparrow.

Now it's really complete

Some people may say that I've really lost it, but if you've ever tried to bake in an oven that doesn't have a constant temp you'd know what I'm talking about.

My new stove is better than a 10 carat diamond ring.



I don't have to check the temp every time I put something in the oven.

A new pet?

It seems that I've gotten a new pet (stuffed). Had to fill the hole.

Meet the house mouse.........

The start of a New Year

Happy New Year to all.

We're off and running, we started another project. In the kitchen of course. We finally decided that the ugly tile had to go. so we started the 30th of Dec. on the demolition.

It really doesn't look like we did much at this point. Now you must remember that the stove was as far to the left as possible. Now when using the oven you had to be very very careful when opening the door, not much wiggle room there, it just cleared the cupboard door under the sink.

Hubby finally managed to get the drawers leveled, those were on the right side of the stove, and the trash compactor was to the right of that.

The compactor was moved to the other side of the kitchen, by the back slider which makes it a lot easier to take out the trash.

Almost done, I can't believe how much more counter space this gives me, we only added about 12 inches to the length, but with it continuous it sure seems like a whole lot more. All that's left is the trim work and down the road a new stove.

My hubby hates the words " you know honey I was thinking".

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishing every one a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. May the season bring Joy to everyone

Sand Drags

Yesterday we saw in the local paper that the Avi Casino was hosting Sand Drag Races so since we are huge fans of the NHRA and have a friend that races top fuel funny car we thought we would go check out the sand drags.

The qualifying was to start at 10 am so off we headed, of course we forgot about the time change, when we cross the river we lose an hour so we were an hour early. No problem, we just hung out in the Casino for an hour. Didn't have any luck either.

When we walked back to the track, we found out that I had parked the car in the staging area for the racers. Moved the car to regular parking, and they thought I was going to race the villager, silly them.

It was a beautiful sunny day, not windy at all when we first got there, but by the time the qualifying started, the wind had come up, 20 mph gusts and for us it was flat ass cold.

Watched a bit, then headed home to thaw out. All in all, I'd go again although we didn't go today, the high is only in the 50's and with the wind it feels a lot colder. Getting spoiled aren't we.

These are alcohol fuel dragsters.

This is a top fuel dragster, forgot how loud those puppies are, my ears still hurt. Ah the smell of methanol, really cleans out the sinuses.

A couple of ATVs, the kid in the far lane kept trying, he never did win, but he sure gave it a try, I don't think he was any older than 7.

Just a couple more shots of the races, love those rooster tails.

Busy, busy, busy

Haven't posted lately, we've been helping a neighbor with a house that he bought, fixing it up to resell. Hubby has been doing a lot of building and I've had a paint brush in my hand for so long now it's locked in.




Almost done, and non too soon either. We had just finished screening in our porch and we both need a rest, and I want to enjoy my porch now that it's not so hot anymore.

Just a pretty picture

Nothing new here, just a picture of the butterflys in the garden.

I can see or at least it looks like it..

Last Friday we headed to Vegas again, this time to pick up Hubbies new eye. (He still can't see any better though). The Dr. did a pretty good job of matching the color, and personally I think it looks pretty good.

This trip was a whole lot better than the one we made a week ago, we ran into the worst down pour that I think Vegas has ever seen. At times I couldn't even see the road and when you are on the freeway that's pretty scary. Even with the windshield wipers running as fast as they could the only thing I could see was a dim outline of the tail lights of the car in front of me, if that guy would have gone off the road, I'd have been right behind him. Thank heavens it wasn't a snow storm....

I'm still not use to seeing him with an eye and at times I have to do a double take. It has does wonders for his self-esteem. There is some fine tuning that still has to be done, so we have to make another trip to Vegas next Friday, but the trip is well worth the time. The eye socket has to adjust to something being there again, and in time should move with the other eye. It does move some now, but down the road it will track even better.