It's Coming

Only 5 more weeks until my dear wife and I depart for New York for a New England Cruise. We are celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary. Not bad for two 39 year-olds. We leave the middle of August a few days earlier than the crusie so I can visit the company's office for a few days. Then on Saturday we set sail (so to speak) on the Caribbean Princess for 7 days.

(Stock Photo)

While we are gone Steven is is charge of the house. We better not find any dead critters in the yard or evidence of any wild parties.

4th of July

3-day weekends are great. It was busy and the best part was that Katy, Danior, and the kids were over each day. Katy and Danior were mostly working on a project.

Sunday we found the swimming pool we got for Rebekah last year and after patching a small leak we filled it up with water. Even Jonah got to play in the water.

Rebakah likes to splash, especially when grandpa is next to her.

The bathing beauty, perhaps a future Miss America?

Sue and I are starting to get excited for our next cruise. Our 30th anniversay is in August and we are celebrating with a New England cruise that leaves on August 22nd. We will leave a few days earlier so I can visit our office there on Long Island.

Hunington Library

So Sue is off work for the week and I decided to take the week off too. Today we visited the Huntington Library in San Marino. Steven came along for the visit. I highly recommend this for anyone who has not been there before. It has a reasonable admission price and just a beautiful place to visit. They have an art museum as equal to the Getty and an incredible manuscript collection including a Guttenburg bible.

Two of the most famous paintings of all time are at this museum. One is Blue Boy which became famous when Huntington paid $700,000 for it, the most ever paid for a painting at that time. Know a days it is probably worth $700 million.

The second painting is Pinkie. The colors in the painting are magnificant.

The grounds are sitting on over 270 acres and the flower gardens are to behold. This is my favorite picture of the flowers that I took.

One flower that makes the gardens famous is the "Corpse Flower". The Simpsons had an episode after this flower. It is just about to bloom which is a rare occurance. The last time it bloomed was in 2002. The flower is over six feet tall and when it blooms it emits an odor like rotten meat.

They have a nice Japanese garden. Lucky me, I found the most beautiful woman at the place to have my picture taken with.

Family updates

Katy celebrated her birthday at our house. A magic bullet (blender) was top on her want list.

Jonah tried the baby swing for the first time. He seems to really enjoy it.




Rebekah discovered a new way to get in and out of the backyard.



Rebekah being the great big sister she is teached Jonah the art of being a TV couch potato.


The proud grandma.