From PA to CA (to Pennsylvania and back to California)

Well here's MOM!! The woman who's made our lives possible!!!! She's with another of her trusty companions Rosco, the MOST obedient creature in her life I do believe!!! Well, I'm close behind~~ when she tells me what to do- NOW!!
This trip was the first in 5 years to the East Coast for me. This home Mom and Frank live in in Pennsyvania is new to me. They moved here about 3 years ago, and it's a lovely minature size home very much like their last home in Pennsylvania. (That English sounds funky- Mom- I can depend on you to help me fix that!! xoxox)



I went East for my sister especially. The doctor told her she has perhaps less than a 25 cent coin size amount of her liver left. Therefore the jaundice. She has been on painkillers for her swollen feet, and many vitamins... but able to eat again. If only her partner would give up alcohol as well. A nice man and great cook and housekeeper but... we're all afraid about the temptation Jan will have to drink again.





While in Pennsylvania I could visit with two old girlfriends. Michelle is my best friend from boarding school, George School. With her sweet, sweet hubby (one thing we have in common- our pretty much younger hubbies!) and their SEVEN animals, I stayed at their home one night. We had the best time, but animals-especially SO many of them=asthma attack, which happened in the middle of the night. And fool me, hadn't brought my emergency inhaler. Thank goodness her neighbor had one which I could use the following morning so I could get on with the last day of my time in PA..



Just the animals were SO gorgeous- I LOVED hanging out with all of them, and watching Michelle and Bryan with THEIR dependents!!! xoxoxo Also, having been able to have a few hours to catch up, and have delicious pizza, and a YUMMY beer I wish was in California- we had the best night. I'd do it again- but WITH my own inhaler!!!




After leaving Michelle's heading back to Jan's I could catch up with another awesome old friend. She's so funny- she recalls how I used to write the longest notes to her in school that she would have to put whatever on hold for half an hour to read my notes to her! Amie. Amie- another amazing woman- we became friends around 5th grade, but then she and Janet became the best of friends. Tastes in music and guys were more similar for them, oh and the sort of parties they went to. I used to go to disco dances and Jan and Amie- well... hmmmm. Philly folk festival with Harley Davidson riders, Budweiser beer, Marlboro cigs- were their sort!!
Now, Amie with her two daughters and horses, and a mini farm of their own- she's loving having Jan "back" to her old self too.

I returned to California, sometimes I have to think twice where I am, where next I am going, where I've been- all the connections- I'm so grateful to have been able to take this trip (THANK YOU MOM AND FRANK!!!). AND to not have had to cook for a week while away!!!