Gene Autry filming at Corriganville - 1951

Leave meeting early and drive to Rancho Mirage blood draw. Home after and check e-mail and news sites. Brenda here and starts cleaning. I make popcorn and share with Brenda, Misty and Crystal. Watch some TV: end of a Gene Autry I started earlier this week. Brenda leaves and I down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Clean side yard. Work at computer. Beth home and we eat. After, we watch recording of CSI: Vegas - made last night. Later ~

This is where we had breakfast

Looking down the hall from our room

Queen Mary Hotel entrance

Up around 6:00 - we get ready; then meet the McDermaid's for breakfast. Talk and eat for a very nice time. Back to our cabin and get everything together and down to car - load up. Take off for home around 10:00 = arrive a little after noon. Unload and put stuff away. Girls are excited to see us. Beth off to work; I down for nap with girls - Crissy is able to get up on bed now; could it be the pills? Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth.
Message from Jimmy George - he had operation and is home - he'll call when he feels better. Clean up side yard and put out recycle bin. Start getting dinner ready and Beth home. We have dinner then it's living room and TV: NCIS. Beth showers and I write here. Later ~

Meeting as usual; then I home and Beth to work until 10:30. Most things ready and we load out. Drive to Long Beach and check into the Queen Mary hotel. Call Charlie McDermaid and Judy. They to our cabin and we talk for a while. He shows me their room - The Eisenhower Suite. Back to our cabin. They leave to get ready and we get ready. We meet them at the shop's wedding chapel and they are married by Captain Roy. I shoot video; Beth shoots stills. After we take a trip to the bow of the ship - windy and cold. Back to lobby and meet them - we to Promenade Deck and climb a lot of stairs to the Winston Churchill restaurant. After dinner, we find a couch and some chairs and we talk. Break it up around 9:30 and all to our cabins. We get ready and crash - very tired - a lot of walking for me.

Pamela Duncan and James Ellison at Iverson's Ranch - 1951


Shop then to Sherry's for haircut. Mel there and we talk. Sherry late.

Home and check e-mail and news sites with girls, cheese, pretzels, and olives.

TV: Watch conclusion of The Singing Hillwith Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette while eating lunch.

Down for nap with girls.

Up and bring in mail; feed girls; oopen mail for Beth.

Clean up side yard. Work at computer making maps for our trip to Long Beach tomorrow.

Beth home and we eat and talk. After, watch CSI: Miami. Charlie calls from Queen Mary to touch base. Later ~

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Johnny Mack Brown and Noel Neill filming Whistling Hills


Forgot to write today. Nothing spectacular happened.

Stop by Office Depot on way home to drop off copying for Beth. To Trader Joe's for lettuce. Home and check e-mail and news sites with girls, cheese and pretzels.

Try bank but their computers are down. Drive over to Beth's place of employment; pick her up and we drive to Indio recorder office. See John Cook.

Stop by Edie's on way back so Beth can spruce it up for potential buyers. Stop at Office Depot and I pick up copying plus buy some rolls of tickets. drop Beth at work and I home.

Home: Simple lunch of chips and dip, while I watch a Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy St John Billy the Kid PRC Western. Down for nap with girls. Crystal has been having trouble getting on and off bed.

Up and bring in mail, Fed girls, and open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard; sweep. Beth home.

Fix salads for both of us. The we watch the Lois Wilson Hallmark Special. Both get ready for bed. Later ~

Open Call at the McCallum

Grocery shopping after meeting then home and put away.

Beth home and we talk; both work in office.

I fix an early lunch and we eat.

I snooze on couch until 1:00 p.m.

Then we're off to McCallum Theater for Open Call talent show. Harry, Annie, George and Ronice, and Ann there.

Home at 5:00 - feed girls. Bring in small batch of mail.

Make salad and we eat.

To office for a bit while she does pills for me.

TV: One of those cop and car chase shows until she falls asleep.
Both of us wind up the day. Later ~

Home from meeting and am greeted by girls. Brenda here to clean - she begins.

I check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls.

Move to living room. Fix some lunch and watch Renegades of the Rio Grande, with Rod Cameron and Fuzzy Knight. Brenda leaves.

I down for my nap with girls.

Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Call Beth. Drive to notary to have some papers notorized. To credit union with Beth to ask about a line of credit.

Pick up some Panda Express orange chicken and home.

Beth home and we eat. Some time in office.

TV: Recording of CSI: Vegas from last night. Later ~

Discussing our trip to Hawaii later this year

By Office Depot on way home from meeting to get copies for Beth.

Home and Sam is there putting another coat on dining room table. He leaves.

Check e-mail and news sites with cheese, pretzels, olives and girls. Listen to Rush while I work at computer.

TV: finish up an old Gene Autry movie I cut short last week. Down for nap with girls.

Up and bring in mail; feed girls; open mail for Beth. UPS comes for Beth - call her.

Sweep and clean side yard.

Beth home early and runs checks to bank. I cook and we eat while talking over upcoming trips and cruise. Move to office to continue our talk and planning. Beth did make reservations for October Hawaii cruise. Later ~

E-mail from Jeff asking for one of my scripts; someone has shown some interest. E-mail script to Jeff as an attachment.

Sam here to sand dining room table and put on a coat of varnish on it for now.

To several pet stores looking for doggy door. no luck - all wring sizes. Stop by Beth's place of employment and pick up ironing. Also find out the brand name of our dog door.

Pick up veggie burritos for my lunch today and our dinner tonight (I eat 1/2 per sitting). Home and watch recording of Justified from last night.

Down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Charge the scooter.

Check e-mail and Jeff says he sent script off.

Call Jimmy George. Waiting for a call back. Unplug scooter and put it away.

Beth home and we eat in living room as table is not dry.

We work on schedule for Texas convention and Austin trip; Hawaii trip, etc. Watch rerun of NCIS with Ralph. Later ~

Gene Autry and Lois Wilde in The Singing Cowboy - 1936

Nothing spectacular happened today here in the desert:

9:00 a.m. appointment with Dr. Karl Shultz. He looks me over and I drive to Beth's place of employment where I

Pick up her car and take it to the car wash. Take it back to her then home.

TV with lunch. Eat while watching The Singing Cowboy with Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.

Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; feed girls; open mail. Call Brth anout a returned piece of mail.

Sweep house and clean up side yard.

Beth home and we eat. TV: CSI: Miami. Later ~

Ben Johnson

Nothing really exciting:

Xeroxing for Beth on way home from meeting.

Spent morning shopping for dog medicine and dog steps for Crystal, who had trouble getting on, and off, our bed.

TV and lunch - Wild Stallion with young Ben Johnson.

Nap with girls then up. Feed girls.

Beth home and we eat. Trash out. Both work in office. Later ~

A few highlights of the day:

Usual stuff for Beth and me - she to Hall with Brenda; I sleep in then breakfast and trim beard.

Beth home and we both putz around house until 10:30, when we ...

Take off and buy outdoor chairs for ourselves for events, etc. Then it's to Sam's Club to return two larger outdoor chairs she bought yesterday. At same tune I do some shopping for us: dog treats, etc.

Then it was on to San Berdoo where we met brother Bruce and Sharon for lunch at Chili's. Nice food; nice conversation.

Drive home and off to pick up Brenda and we to Hall where they're having a musical performance by C.A.P.S., Arnold Capatenelli's group. Vince sang a few songs. Brenda and Beth clean up.

We three to Ruby's for Sundaes for Beth and me, dinner for Brenda.

Drop Brenda then home. Answer e-mail and talk. Later ~

Hillary Swank as Amelia



Grocery shopping after meeting.

Pedicure at 10:00 - met Beth there and we had fish tacos at Yellow Basket afterward.

She home while I nap and gets mail. I up and feed girls.

We watch a movie from Time-Warner - Amelia. Pretty good movie.

Watch episode of CSI: Vegas we recorded on Thursday.

Had a snack together. Straightened out Reseda High reunion stuff and made hotel reservation.

Bed and sleep. Later ~

Gene Autry and Champion - I took photo at Melody Ranch in mid-50s


Mainly a sit around house day at computer. Watch the endings of two Gene Autry Westerns: Guns and Guitars; and Roundup Time in Texas.

To bank after nap to make deposit for Beth.

Filled out Pets on Parade entry and printed photo. All it needs is a check and we're done.

Beth home and we eat. She's tired so she showers and we bed. Later ~

April 15th Palm Desert Tea Party

Trying an event diary for awhile:

Same as usual except a bird flew down the chimney and was part of our family nearly all day. I went out and bought Beth a new watch and a new ti-pod for me.

Brenda and Ron over later to get the bird out - Brenda raises birds so she had no problem.

Beth and I attended the local Tea Party in Palm Desert - several thousand in attendance.

We had dinner at a new pizza place on El Paseo. Home. Later ~

Timothy Olyphant - the star of Justified


Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. After some Rush and surfing, I off to get battery for Beth's watch - battery was fine; watch just not keeping time. By two thrift shops to look for tri-pods - no luck. Pick up a McDonald's cheeseburger and fries then home. Watch Justified recording while eating. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; take my afternoon pills; feed girls; open mail for Beth. Let girls out back to run. Do some small chores around house. Ron over to drop off chicken breasts as they're going to LA for a few days. Clean up side yard. Watch the opening of O'Reilly. Beth home and help her in with her stuff. She falls when Misty Jumps on her. Nothing serious. Shed gets up using a chair. Shaken up but not that bad. She cooks chicken while I prepare chips and cheec. Combine and microwave. We eat and talk. She washes her hair. Then we watch The Good Wife, recorded last night. Later ~

Robert Conrad

Home from meeting. Check e-mail and news sites with cheese, olives, pretzels and girls. Off to doctor appointment at 9:45. Stoop at Beth's place of work and pick up my meds. On to Dr. Somero's new office in Palm Desert - on Cook St. near Gerald Ford Dr. My every sixth-month meeting with Somero - my Nocardia doctor. Pick up a couple of taco and stop at Beth's place of employment to eat with her. Try fix their fax machine; No way I can do it. Home and have some ice cream. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; take some pills; feed girls; open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Call Jimmy George to ask him some questions about a movie he produced - The Bandits, with Bob Conrad. E-mail his answers to a man who wrote to me. Beth home. I cook and we eat. Watch recording of CSI: Miami from Monday. Later ~

Intermittent Showers. Huge rainbow over entire valley before meeting. Stop at Office Depot on way home and buy some pencils for Beth. Home and check e-mail and news sites with girls and popcorn. Get check and stamps. To bank and cash check for Beth. Drop package at post office; and paper to Beth's car. Home and work at computer for a short time. To living room and TV: watch the end of a Gene Autry Western and the beginning of another. Have lunch while viewing. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Take my afternoon pills. Feed the girls. Open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Putz around house. Beth home early as Notary coming by to help us sign papers. Notary here and we spend some time with him - Beth gets along great as both know what they are talking about but I don't. He leaves. I fix dinner and we eat. To office and send pics to her employer. Later ~

Crystal: Our 15-Year Old


Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 6:15 - shave, shower, and dress. Fix breakfast and eat. Trim beard. Check e-mail and news sites. Beth home and start doing my pill boxes. She leaves to go to Leather Plus Too. I stay here and fix lunch. Beth home and we eat. Masters Golf game has started. I down for nap. Up and feed girls. Beth watching golf. I watch with her and read comics and magazine insert. I in to office and write here. Mikleson wins Masters. I call in pizza order and pick it up 25-mins later. Home and we eat. Beth works on some paintings - sticking them to wall with tape. Then she showers early. I check e-mail. Send one on to Jimmy. Get it together. Later ~

Grocery shopping after meeting. Home and Brenda helps me unload. I put stuff away. Snack while I check e-mail and news sites. Girls, of course, are with me. Brenda cleans while I work in office. Move into living room and fix lunch. Watch the end of Man From Music Mountain with Gene and Smiley. Watch a little bit of another western, too. Brenda left. I down for nap with girls. Up and Beth is home watching golf and Tiger play for first time since he got into trouble. I work at computer until golf is over then we head for Wal-mart and Sam's Club to meet Brenda and shop for new store and the Hall. Dinner at Yellow Basket - all have fish tacos. Split from Brenda and we home. Beth washes her hair; I check e-mail. Decide there's not enough time for movie; so both to office and putz around. Later ~

Me on left working on Fury TV Show in 1956

Stop for gas on way home; Nader not there. Home and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Work at computer for awhile. Beth calls. Sean by to adjust her text size. He leaves. I down to TV: Deep in the Heart of Texas, with Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter. Then some of The Man from Music Mountain with Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette. Have some lunch while viewing. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; take pills; feed girls; open mail for Beth. To office and call Beth. Notary set for Monday. E-mail and Call Marlene Smith (Fury Web Site)to thank her for sending copy of episode I worked on in 1956. Then I show the DVD on my computer. Pretty darn good print. Beth home before it's over - shut down. Help Beth in with her stuff. Change light on front porch. Clean up side yard. Talk to Beth. Fix dinner and we eat. Both into office for awhile. Watch Thursday's recording of CSI: Vegas. Later ~

The Cast of Lost

Home after meeting. Sam is there finalizing the wall repair. I check e-mail and news sites with cheese, olives, pretzels and girls. Sam and I leave around the same time. I to meet Beth at credit union where we conduct some business. Both of us home where she picks up some things she needs, then leaves. I work at computer; then into living room to watch recording of Lost we made on Tuesday. That is followed by the last half of Barbed Wire with Gene Autry and Pat Buttram while I eat my lunch. Talk to Beth. Down for my nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; take my pills; feed girls; open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Sweep house. Work at computer. Watch some of O'Reilly with Laura Ingrham. Beth home - help her in with her stuff. We talk. I fix dinner and we eat. Trash out. We watch new episode of The Good Wife recorded last Tuesday. Later ~

Test images taken using Pentax SLR with 650mm - 1300mm lens




Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites. I have to be home to sign for my telephoto lens when UPS brings it. Have some popcorn with girls. Call and talk to Jimmy George for awhile. Talk to Beth.
Work at computer some more; then into living room to watch TV. Make my lunch and eat while I watch Justified, new TV series we taped the other night. Down for nap on couch as I need to be ready in case UPS delivers. Up at 2:00. Bring in mail. UPS delivers new lens. Take my pills; feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Never get around to cleaning up side yard or sweeping. Open new lens and attach it to camera; then I screw around taking text pics in back and in front. Put camera stuff away. Work in office and Sean over with Beth's new computer - all filled with old computer's programs. He sets it up and checks our my printer connection. Beth home and I help her in with some things. She talks with Sean and they make date for him to go by her place of work tomorrow to fix a computer. Sean leaves. Beth gets call and has to leave to do something for her employers. I cook dinner. Beth home and we eat. After we watch NCIS recording from Tuesday. She shower and I get ready. Later ~

Leave meeting as a new speaker is called when the meeting should be closing. To Office Depot and pick up copying I left off yesterday. To Sherry's for haircut. Home where Sam is working in Beth's bath fixing wall. Time Warner guy, Joshua, here to fix fax machine. He does that plus he fixes power that runs the cables coming into house. Talk to Beth. Make some lunch and watch the conclusion on Shenandoah, with James Stewart. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Take my afternoon pills. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors inside. Start O'Reilly but turn him off when he has a lib on. Start to cook but remember eth had a meeting at 4:00. Stop cooking for awhile then Beth calls, she's on her way home; I re-start cooking. Beth home and we eat. Both to office. Can't watch

CSI Miami

from last night because basketball final booted it. Both work in office. Later ~

A Young American Shows What He Thinks About Our Country's Leaders


Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with cheese, pretzels, and girls. Plumber Dan here; Beth home - and the two of them into Beth's bathroom to look at shower. Dan fixes the shower and leaves. Beth takes off, too. I to bank and make deposit for us. Listen/watch Rush for awhile on 24/7. Home and watch the beginning of Shenandoah, with Jimmy Stewart. Make a light lunch and eat while viewing. Beth home and we talk; both work in office until it's time to go to see Dr. Stone. Driving separate cars, we head for Eisenhower. Good visit with Stone. I'm doing OK. She back to work and I head for home. Feed girls; then it's down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail for Beth. Open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Work at computer. Beth home and we talk. I fix dinner and we eat. She off to meet Terry so they can go to Indio Jail together. I down to Best Buy and on Sean's advise, I purchase a new computer for Beth. Home - bring computer into office. Work at computer for awhile. Finally, I get ready and go to bed with girls. Beth in later. Later ~

My six-shooter

Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 6:20: shower, dress, cook and eat breakfast with paper. Trim my beard. Clean up kitchen. Clean up side yard. Beth home and we talk. She to office and I join her. She work while I check e-mail and news sites. Arrange our Queen Mary trip to Canadian Charlie's wedding at the end of the month. I make lunch and we eat. Talk for awhile; then I down for nap with girls while she drives to Leather Plus-Too. I up and take pills. Feed girls. Beth off to store again. I work in office - EARTHQUAKE: 6.9 - ten miles south of Mexicali. Rolling for about 10 seconds here. Continue on computer. Beth home and joins me in office. She works. I write here. I drive to Panda Express to pick up dinner - Orange Chicken. Home and we eat. Afterward, I fix Xerox machine for her.

First day opening for Leather Plus Too in Palm Desert





Grocery shopping after meeting; then home where Brenda helps me unload. I put stuff away while she continus to clean. Check e-mail and news sites with chips, dip, and girls. Work for awhile at computer. Watch TV for a very short time when Beth gets home. Turn off TV and bye to Brenda. I make lunch for me and Beth already has her lunch from this morning. We eat together. We drive to nail place seperately to get pedicures. Beth off to new Leather Plus Too store - it's the first day opening. I home and down for my nap with girls. Up and Beth is home - she's fed girls. We talk. After gabbing for awhile, we decide to go out to dinner at fish grotto place beside Allan's Italian joint. After we drop by LPToo and I take photos. Joel is there and several others. Head for home around 6:30. Both into office where I download photos and she attempts to shop online.

Perfect day under a Texas tree


Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites, with girls, cheese, and pretzels. Surf around a little. To bank to make deposit and cash checks; on to see Jason at the hearing aid place. He checks out the hearing aids and gives me an annual test. Home and work a short time on computer. TV: Watch Tuesday's recording of Lost while eating lunch. Beth calls. After, it's down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Take afternoon pills. Feed the girls. Open mail for Beth. To office. Write here.

Inside Leather Plus - Joel Peters on right with neck scarf

Leave meeting before it starts and go home to wait for Dan the Plumber. Check e-mail and news sites with girls. pretzels and cheese. Dan here and starts to work on valve in wall between bathrooms. I work at computer - surfing, etc. Dan finishes earlier than he had planned. Work more at computer; then take off for Indio around 10:40. Stop at Leather Plus and talk with Joel for a half an hour. Then to Chinese place and meet for Conservative Round Table. Nice talk and good meal. I leave early and call Beth. Stop by Bermuda Dunes airport and wait for her - she brings Tracker for the pilot, Jody. who is flying in tonight. Pick her up and drop her at her employers' home. I to our house and down for nap with girls. Up and find that my hearing aid appointment is cancelled. Call and make new appointment for tomorrow morning. Sweep floors. Clean up side yard. Let girls out back door. Beth home early. She works in office while I make dinner. We eat; then she off to meet Joel at new,Palm Desert store. I write here. Beth home and we watch The Good Wife recorded on Tuesday (another rerun). Later ~