Celebrating November 1st 2010, Giants win World Series AND another body celebrated~ Zen's TATOO!

The famous statue along West Cliff Drive wears Halloween, and for the SanFran Giants!

I know. lots of people aren't baseball fans- I'm not usually either but this was good. And the pumpkin's face, FYI is bearded to be like one of the best pitchers for the Giants.

And then, here's OUR young man~ Zen, moving forward, having a family crest tattooed onto his young body. Halfway done...you can see a family tree of ours, framed in front of Zen.

In another few days the last details will be added. I must say, I'm impressed too.

Autumn in Santa Cruz 2010

I was at Uncle Lynn's Landscaping yard, he had me clean out this little green house, and he showed me a couple of plants right by it.

Uncle Lynn asked me to guess what this was...I guessed it...can you?!

CAPERS!!!  ;  )

And then he showed me these...I never knew Poppies grew into these! Lynn told me Zen shouldn't eat lots of Poppies before any physical tests- it'll show up as herioin in his blood stream?! Really?!!

Ahhh and then here I am in my kitchen.

I thought Julie, who visited, was vegetarian- gosh how could I forget, it's her PARTNER ONLY who is! Anyway, I figured out an old recipe I used to make for my kids, but my cookbook is in Japan, MACROBURGERS! And they turned out well enough~ still Julie, the dear, got her meat the next morning for breakfast!

Photos from Julie the day in the Redwoods

These Rewood Orbs are such a mind blower!

Julie could hardly get enough of the majestic trees.

Aussie~Jewel~Julie~in ESCALON and the Redwoods

Julie came back to California! We got to drive her down to Escalon for her week in a workshop there.

It's as amazing as everyone has said.

Whoever the gardner is there, has got to be in heaven

The Coast going South from Santa Cruz is really as amazing as going North to San Francisco

Taka and I took Julie to Henry Cowell State Park to take in the Redwoods

Oh, and Zen and Jewel!!!

A SCHigh Basketball team WORKOUT!!!

ON THE BEACH~ now who WOULDN'T wanna work out with those boys?!!

THEN they play volleyball! Whatta life!

Livermore at Positas College

Saturday September 11th eleven boys from the Santa Cruz High Basketball team went to this skills clinic where they got some time to work out with a former head coach of the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings, amongst others.

Players from Sacramento, Chico, the Bay area and a number of other locations took part.

In groups they broke down and worked out too.

Finally each group got to play three twenty minute games.

Santa Cruz won their first game 25-6, also the second game~29-23.

The last game was tied and went into overtime. Both teams missed numerous chances to get that first score to win the game. The other team managed to finally pull off a free shot and won.

Working Landscaping in Santa Cruz plus a little more~

One day this past week, I went to pick Taka up from working. He walked from where they were working to where I was waiting.

Now is this area not a nice work place or what?!

I actually was picking Taka up to take him to the Doctor's clinic. His fingers have gotten terribly bad. They actually pop open bleeding at times. It's too sad. Taka's hands were one thing I was so attracted to about him when I first met him. It's even painful to look at them now.

Now, as for my other boy~Zen, ha ha~~ I went to the Apple store for a lesson and the guy showed me how to change things with photos, like this below. I took this photo a year ago and had wanted to do this just for the fun of it!