Saturday, November 15, 2025

Monday, October 13 through Friday, October 31, 2025: Dodgers, Sisters in Maui, Preston, Friends, Bearizona, Christmas Card, and Geocaching

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a winning season again this year. My brother Peter and his family enjoy going to Dodger games.

 
My grandniece, Sophie is the quintessential Dodger fan! 
Friends of mine who live in Warsaw, Poland, vacationed in Malta. Waldemar Paradowski is now retired. Congratulations to him! 
 
On Facebook, a Williams resident captured this beautiful photo of a sunrise at Cataract Lake.
 
My sister Wendy and her husband Kai are in Hawaii. Wendy shared a lovely Hawaiian sunset.
The mule deer are enjoying the fall weather too.
 
One morning, Preston and I walked around the golf course.
 
 
Now, two sisters are in Hawaii! Wendy and Carrie are both on the Island of Maui. Wendy and Kai are at a resort and Carrie and Brent are in a condo next to the Kuwata resort! And, it was not even planned!
 
 
The couple on the left side of this photo are friends of Wendy and Kai. Wendy and Kai enjoyed a sunset catamaran adventure too!
 
 
I had a sleep study scheduled in Flagstaff. I enjoyed some sushi for dinner at Hiro's before arriving at the Sleep Clinic by 7:30 p.m.
I was discharged from the Sleep Clinic at 6:00 a.m. It was so cold in the morning that I had to use a credit card to get the frost off of the truck windshield!
 
Preston has a girlfriend. There is a mule deer doe that has visited Preston three separate times.


 
While I am no longer a member of the Organization of Women Executives, I always enjoy seeing photos of some of my Los Angeles friends posted on Facebook.
 
Barbara Coad and Carla Schmidt are in Paris, France. They are in Paris for a week before boarding a Holland America cruise ship and making a transatlantic journey. 
 
 

 While in Paris, Barbara and Carla rendezvoused with some other friends, Pattie and Craig Apregan.
 
My niece Lauren and my nephew Blake both live in Georgia. Lauren posted a photo of the four of them together --- Blake and his wife Nicole, Lauren and Cody --- and their son Colter. Fun!
 
A dear friend, Paula Browne, lives in Southern Utah. She and her husband Leeton have three dogs. Two of them are adorable Corgis.

There was a Wednesday night series at my church with Pastor David Jeremiah called "The World of the End." I was able to attend a lot of the video series. The church gave me the book of the same name to read chapters of those sessions that I missed.
I decided that it was time to work on my Christmas cards. I made a folder of potential photos and went on Shutterfly to select a card. The one I liked was for ten photos. I had Tom review the potential photos and I selected the photo placement on the card. 
 
Preston and I like to go to town and walk around. Today, we walked by the steam engine train that is decorated for the Christmas Polar Express.
 
 
 
 
On Thursday, October 23, my friend Chris Peterson and I went to Bearizona. Chris is an excellent wildlife photographer. She took some amazing photos.
 


 
 
 
It was also nice getting a photo with Chris.
 
 There are more photos of fall that captured my heart.
 
 
 
 
Friday night, Tom and I had dinner at El Comedore Cardena Mexican Food & Cantina.

An early evening photo of the train passing over the Country Club Drive bridge was awesome.
On Saturday, Preston and I went to Dogtown Lake. It was a beautiful day to walk around the lake.
 
 I even left some of Kelsey and Jamie's ashes by a picnic table.

The next day, Preston and I went back to the Dogtown Lake area to do some geocaching. We found four cache containers total.


Preston was very helpful throughout the search process.
Tom's ophthalmologist wanted to do a laser procedure on his eyes ---  to try and lower the pressure caused by his glaucoma. So, early Wednesday morning, we were in Flagstaff at Barnet-Delaney-Perkins Eye Center.
Tom was in and out within an hour. So, we stopped and picked up some coffee and headed home. 
 
The next day, Tom dropped me and Preston off at the dry Holden Lake. The two of us walked home.
 
 
Early Friday morning, there were deer on the golf course by Elaine Brady's home.
Later that morning, Tom had an appointment with a nurse who came to our home. For treatment of Tom's dry eyes, he is paying for a special saline solution called Vital Tears. Tom's blood is used to make this serum.
That afternoon, I visited Di and Greg Jonsen at the Kelley Parsonage home. They are leaving that day to move to the state of Maine. Greg has children and grandchildren there. Di and Greg are originally from Maine themselves. I sure will miss these two!

Monday, October 13 through Friday, October 31, 2025: Dodgers, Sisters in Maui, Preston, Friends, Bearizona, Christmas Card, and Geocaching

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a winning season again this year. My brother Peter and his family enjoy going to Dodger games.   My grandniece,...