Rose Parade Floats

My beautiful rock stairs that I decorated with poppy seeds, dark lettuce seeds, light lettuce seeds and rice powder.


Gluing plumeria leaves to the windows and then bark around the fence below (not pictured).
The city of Los Angeles Float and the USO float in the background.

Happy Anniversary

My parents were married 40 years ago today!!

Homemade Christmas

Homemade can be cool!! Brooke threw an awesome homemade gift Christmas party. Everyone was suppose to bring a homemade gift and we did an elephant gift exchange. I came home with an awesome Christmas Apron that Afton made (pregnant girl in the brown shirt). It was so much fun with yummy food and fun conversation.

I loved seeing all the cool gifts. I wish I had a picture with everyone. Can't wait for next year Brooke!!

PS I made candles in a crockpot!!

Money...Money.....Money

So, Bernanke and Congress have committed over $7 TRILLION so far on the housing gambler mess. How does that compare? Take a look...

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

I haven't seen this movie but I really like the trailer and simple explainations of what is happening in our financial markets and the serious consequences of the fraud.

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

Yes, I am a nerd. Here is a You Tube Video that explains how our monetary system is based on debt.

Wheels to the Sea

I belong to a group called Mountain Bike Unit, which a volunteer program with the National and CA State Parks along with the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy. The school buses drove the participants to Danielson Ranch and the Kiwanis Club feed them breakfast and then they wheeled about 4.5 miles to the beach at Sycamore Cove. The high school Key Club helped to wheel the participants tackle the trail including the dry river crossings. The Highway Patrol closed the PCH for everyone to wheel across to lunch at the beach.

Cathy

My cute younger sister showing off her bulge!! She is so excited to be 29 and pregnant.

Beach Mystery

Eva and I went to the beach to escape the fires a couple of weeks ago. It was really smokey at Zuma so we went to county line.
When we came back from the water a 4 year old kid pointed the paw buried in the sand about 10 feet away from our towels.....it explains the awful smell the wind would blow only near our blankets.
What in the world is this?? What type of animal??