Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Sprouts, a farmer’ market style grocery store moved in to the old Whole Foods location in Tustin and over the last month I visited the store twice, hoping the produce and other grocery items would meet my expectations and it would save me time and money as Whole Foods is now far away and has [...]

Yes I turned fifty on the 3rd of this month, and now it is 17 days later and I am finally blogging about that momentous day. It wasn’t that I had a hard time accepting being 50 that caused me to wait to blog about the day; it was just it was a normal, slightly [...]

Felix Restaurant, in Cabo San Lucas, bills the salsa bar as the world’s longest salsa bar. I am not sure its the longest, but with 26 salsas available, it definitely has great variety. Our dinner at Felix’s was only one of the highlights of a mini family vacation in the town at the [...]

Last Thursday and today, my friend Nick and I attended a sauce cooking class put on by the Laguna Culinary Arts school. Thursday’s class was sauces for meat and today’s class was sauces for fish. We had the same instructor that we had for the pasta classes we attended a while back.
All the [...]

After enjoying two major baseball games this year and the week at the Little League state championship, I bit the bullet and bought 4 tickets to five games at Angel Stadium scattered over the remainder of the season. I didn’t go cheap. I got on Craig’s List and hooked up with a season [...]

For those planning a quiet relaxing stay at Hotel Clark, please be warned that the Hotel is under construction.  Although we still have rooms, they are limited to the couches downstairs or an Aerobed crammed in the same room with exercise equipment, sowing machines and ironing boards.  Guests will be subject to construction [...]

For the past two weeks, my wife was asked be the official scorekeeper for the local Little League All Star Tournament and yours truly was the official announcer.  My wife had the tough job of keeping track of not only the game score, but pitch count, who playing, who is not playing and making sure [...]

Many years ago, Annette and I planted a peach tree in our backyard, which according to the local nursery, was a special hybrid that would produce peaches even with the mild winters we have close to the pacific coast. Over the years we got some delicious peaches, but usually a small crop of only [...]

With out of country visitors filling Hotel Clark, my wife was able to score 4 field level seats to an Angel game, so we decided to make it a guys night out with Jim, the ex patriot, Tomo, the Kiwi fireman, my friend Nick, the guy picking out his fish dinner in the Better than [...]

Sorry about the lack of posts, but in reality, things have been quiet, if not boring around the place. That changed as rooms started filling up this week. Our son is down from college for the summer and on Thursday Jim and Ivana arrived from New Zealand for a 10 day stay. [...]