My mom and Gramps came up to Temecula today. We took Gramps to the nail salon. He and I had mani/pedis, and Ma had her first ever professional manicure. At the age of 57. I mean wow. I felt proud of her, because she always talks about how people catch fungal diseases at those places, and here she finally threw caution to the wind and tried it ( Read more... )

Everyone here is fine, though we only go outside when we have to. We've been advised to stay inside and run the A/C, because of the air quality. Jimmy went to work as scheduled today; I don't like thinking of him being outside, breathing this soup, but he told me they're mostly staying inside the dealership where the air is filtered. Believe it or ( Read more... )

Ma and Gramps are here now. Gramps has had dinner and gone to bed. Everyone else is up, watching the news, which is still only about L.A. County. I am finding out what I can about San Diego online, but there continues to be no new information about Fallbrook. Frustration ( Read more... )

My mom and grandfather are about 40 minutes away. They had to go north to San Juan Capistrano before they could come east. They will be spending the night here - the spare bedrooms are going to come in handy tonight. I heard that my grandmother is at an evacuation center somewhere on Camp Pendleton. And that my mom's best friend's trailer ( Read more... )

On the San Diego County emergency website it says: "Partial evacuation: all residents of Fallbrook, north of Highway 76 and west of Interstate 15 to evacuate the community. Evacuees should leave through Pendleton Gate at Ammunition Road and go through Marine Corps Base-Camp Pendleton to Interstate 5 North to San Clemente State Park." Folks, that's ( Read more... )

I think I don't have enough action these days, because some thoughts are still getting through.

The grandparents are back in town. Seems an awful short time they were away. Went with Gramps to his colonoscopy appointment this morning. Everything was quick and painless. Then we had lunch together and saw a movie. We were going to see The ( Read more... )

lucyshoe's entry here reminded me of something. On my way home today, I happened to see my grandfather driving down the street in his old, beat-up, orange pickup truck that he keeps for when he needs to do manly things, like hauling tree trimmings to the dump. My heart swelled ( Read more... )

Today I'm going with Gramps to his urologist appointment. If I didn't go, Ma was going to take off work and go, so there would be someone there who would be able to absorb the information accurately and relay it later. I think we're going to leave a little early and have lunch first. Won't that be nice ( Read more... )

Ma took Gramps to the ER last night. They inserted a catheter to drain his bladder, and got over 1000 milliliters from him. No wonder he was so uncomfortable -- that's more than the capacity of the average wine bottle (750ml). They sent him home with the catheter still in. He's got a leg bag for during the day and a bed bag for at night. He's ( Read more... )

Yesterday Ma and I drove up to the Getty museum in L.A. celticcowboy68 belongs to an Renaissance Italian comedy troupe that was going to be performing, and javamaven1 n' justplainbryan, (hereafter referred to as "J+B", like the liquor!), were going to be there. Haven't spent a decent amount of time with them in far too long, so I was really looking forward to it ( Read more... )