This last weekend Lou and John Cash visited us on the way to a funeral. It was a relative of John's that got gassed in the gulf war in the early 90's developed cancer. They got it into remission for several years but it returned and they couldn't stop it this time. He was in his forties-such a waste. The funeral was at five pm on Sunday. A rather unusual time? They arrived Saturday morning. It was so nice to hear Marie so excited to have someone to talk to. We had a nice visit went to the Marine institute in Dana Point and the sat and watched the waves roll in and felt the mist and the sun for an hour or so. Lou remembered going to the original Phils store and buying ding-dongs. So we made a trek over there and bought ding-dongs and ice cream bars and sat there and ate them. I remembered the time a big black man with a gun held me up while I was working at Phils. I didn't start shaking until the guy left. By the way I gave him all the money and even the change I had.
We ate at a Mexican restaurant named Agustines over in the old Vermuleans area. Cassy met us there. The food was good and reasonable so we will probably go back. As usual we ended up at home playing Idiot. It was a fun time. We all laughed and laughed, Lou and Cassy and Marie were just hysterical john and I tried to keep some semblence of decorum as you can see by the look on John's face in the picture.
Sunday morning John and Marie made pancakes and eggs and we had Maries yummie plum jam (she just made with shan a week ago) on toast. After Breakfast lou and John were on their way to Escondido for the funeral and we went to church.