Saturday me and Bob Campbell drove up to C.O.D. ranchin time for cocktails on the veranda, then cheese and crackers by the fire and finally fabulous dinner cooked by the double "D's". The toasts. Then dessert./ It felt like wedding and Steve was the bride. The next day I took a hike aka walk with Joann around the property then fab breakfast by the double "D's".
The highlites for me was meeting Malcolm, the notorious owner of COD ranch, beautiful Leah (not my daughter) that I had met but hardly knew, seeing Seline from Rancho Linda Vista, seeing Joann in a barn dress yellow dress, Nora and more.
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The highlites for me was meeting Malcolm, the notorious owner of COD ranch, beautiful Leah (not my daughter) that I had met but hardly knew, seeing Seline from Rancho Linda Vista, seeing Joann in a barn dress yellow dress, Nora and more.
Joann and her daughter Alexi Smith
from a morning walk with Joann around the ranch
the rock and gem show around COD ranch
Leah (not my daughter) daughter of Steve and enjoying a birthday also
There were those that were my age (70's) and those that were Leah's age (33)
father daughter spy team
the morning light at C.O.D ranch
Andy Rush, Imo Baird and Tim Fuller
Charlotte toasts
Bob Campbell in his `love' tie speaks, Jim Reed listens
Romaniello takes no prisoners
Rory clears his throat to tell the tale of San Francisco bay, him and Romaniello in a kayak and their near death experience
Steve embellishes
and more embellishment
Leah birthday coming the next day, toasts her dad (I was envious)
Karen and Steve long time partners
Tim Fuller toasts his good friend Steve
not a prayer but a thoughtful moment, connected loosely to the horror of Trump, closed borders and thoughtless behavior by our President.
When I was a junior at Scarborough high School north of Ossining, New York, the small private school decided we should recite the Lord's Prayer at lunch time. I was choosen to recite but refused, The angry math teacher raced over to me screaming that I must learn the prayer. I told him I knew the prayer but I was refusing to say it in my secular school. Civil disobedience at a young age (1962). I remember poet Alan Ginsberg carrying symbolic sacks of dirt at the 1972 Democratic Convention, Russell Means of A.I.M. joining the drum in Washington D.C. , Shirley Chisholm, NY state congressional member, retiring in 1983 after a lifetime of fighting the good fight.
There is no such thing as peace in the world today.
We must all fight the good fight for human dignity, integrity, and honesty.
I miss Obama