Home after meeting and meet Jay (electrician) who starts work on porch light and light detector. Beth home and works with Jay. He helps her unload a big box and I help her bring it inside. I sweep floors; she cleans up side yard. Jay leaves - jobs done. I fix us chili dogs and we eat and talk. I down to nap with girls. Up and Beth is home. We start in on assembling her new BBQ. Break it up for dinner which she cooks. Eat and talk. Finish putting the BBQ together. Move it outside and clean up. She reads paper; I get ready for bed. Later ~

Coachella Valley High - Memorial Day Salute - a few years ago

Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 5:30 - shower, dress, breakfast with paper. Make bed. Put away dishes. Trim beard. Beth home and starts tidying up. We both work in office. We talk. At 10:30 I fix some hot dogs and we eat. I down for a nap with girls. Up by 3:00 - she's fed girls and is off to Maad Dog Daze meeting. I read comics. To office and catch up on e-mail. Later on, we drive over to Erdal's new house to meet most of the employees of Leather Plus for a BBQ. Joel there. Home and we hit the hay. Later ~

Grocery shopping after meeting. Home and put away groceries. Check e-mail and news sites with cheese and pretzels - and girls. Call from Beth then off to nail place to meet Beth and get a pedicure. Leave before her and pick up some McDonald's then home. Beth home shortly after. I to bedroom to eat and watch TV. Beth has company and they talk on Maad Dog Daze. I down for nap with girls. Up and her friends are gone. I bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. To office and work some. Take off at 5:15 to meet Steve and Theresa Grippi at P.F. Changs for dinner. After two hours of good food and laughter we leave and pick up our conversation outside. The women shop while Steve and I talk. We home and catch up on e-mail. Beth showers. I write here. Check phone messages. Later ~

Start the Memorial Day Weekend with a Prayer

Stop again at Office Depot to get copies made for Beth. Home and Brenda's here cleaning. Check e-mail and news sites with cookie and girls. Drive down to Big 5 sporting goods and pick up 3 pound weights for Beth. Home and work on computer for awhile. 10:30 to living room and turn on TV. Brenda leaves. Make some lunch and watch Carolina Moon with Gene Autry and June Storey. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Clean up side yard. Open mail for Beth. To office and start working on script. Beth home early and we talk. She brought home salsa and beans from work. We eat and clean up. Then we drive over to her p lace of employment and pick up refrigerated snacks for tonight's dance at the Hall and take them to Brenda and Ron at the Hall. Stop for ice cream on way home. She stops to shop on way home. We're back. Later ~

Scene from Justified TV series

Stop at Office Depot on way home to do some copying for Beth. Once home I check e-mail and news sites with cinnamon bun Nader gave me yesterday and girls. Dive right into script, reworking dialogue as I write. At 10:30 into kitchen to make lunch; then I eat while watching recorded episode of Justified. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Still some wind and it's still cool for this time in May. Inside and feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Call Beth as something she was expecting came today. Back to office and pick up where I left off with script. Beth home. I out and help her in with stuff. Clean up side yard. Talk with Beth at table then office. I cook then we eat and continue to talk. Lotta' phone calls for her during dinner. After we to office. She washes her hair. Then we watch CSI Miami recorded last Monday. Later ~

Stop for gas after meeting then home. Check e-mail and news sites with olives, cheese, pretzels and girls. Work a little bit on new script. Living room at 10:30 for the ending of The Hallelujah Trail with Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick. Mark Rizzo here earlier than planned to hook up DVD/VCR machine in bedroom. He leaves. I finish lunch. Down for nap with my girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth - one thank you note and one coupon. Into office and work more on script. Surf around. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Work at computer until Beth gets home. We talk at table over soft drinks. She answers her e-mail while I cook leftover dinner. Both into office until DWTS comes on. Both get ready for bed. She watches two-hour finale while I go to sleep. Later ~

Brenda made us some great layered bean dip

Stop at Office Depot on way home from meeting to pick up supplies for Beth. Home and check computer for e-mail and news sites; with olives, cheese, and girls. Work for awhile on computer. Talk to Jimmy George for a half an hour or so. Call and talk to Beth. Watch a movie, The Broken Star, with Howard Duff and Bill Williams while I eat more of Brenda Hughes' bean dip. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; feed girls. Open mail for Beth and read (scan) my new copy of Roundup, the Western Writers of America magazine. Into office to work on something. Clean up side yard. Sweep house. Call Time-Warner and the guy fixes our movie problem over the phone. Back to office. Beth home and we talk. Beth fixes dinner and we eat. No TV. She works in office and I join her. She watches DWTS while I go to sleep. Later ~

My friend Jimmy George(r) with Steve McQueen and friend

Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 5:30 - shower, dress, breakfast with paper. Check e-mail and news sites with girls. Trim beard. Work on computer. Beth home and help her unload. She work in office beside me. Set recorder for Lost finale tonight. Beth wants an early lunch so I set up Brenda's layered bean dip and some chips and Fritos. We eat. Dip is good. Cookies for dessert. Back to computer; then down for nap with girls. Up and screw around at computer; Dave Velt sent pics of us he took yesterday. Beth still on her computer. I in to kitchen and feed girls. Read comics and weekly magazine while watching Crystal eat (she ate nearly all of it. In to office and work at computer. Out to put NRA license holder on my car. Try putting my old holder on Beth's car but my back gave out. Back inside: Beth is cooking. I write here. Into kitchen for dinner. We talk and eat. After, we into office and spend time with or computers. Later ~

Beth's school get-together




Grocery shopping after meeting. Home and unload with Beth's help. Put away and snack 2 cookies. Beth and I talk for awhile, then we get ready and go and leave at 10:00: Stop to pick up prescriptions and the food we're taking to Beth's school friend's get-together - takes darn near a half an hour. Then it's off to Temple City with me driving. Usual argument about my driving when leaving the freeway. Eventually we arrive. Most of the usual suspects there - John and Sue Watts; Glenn McCullagh; the Vilts, and many more. Eat and talk. Lot of laughs and fun. Leave around 4:00 - she driving. Home at 6:00. Unload. Eat some fast food we picked up and cookies. Both exhausted. Check e-mail for both of us. She shower. Later ~

Gene Autry

Home from meeting. Brenda on my tail. She begins cleaning starting off with the office. I check out what's on TV with olives, cheese and girls. Into office and check e-mail and news sites. Work on new script a little. Read a friend's script some. Paul, the bug guy, here to spray and check traps. Into living room and start watching a Gene Autry western. Brenda leaves and I make lunch and eat while viewing the show. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Into office and work an hour or so. Beth home - help her unload. We talk. I fix salads for dinner and we eat. Watch recording of CSI: Vegas from last night. Get ready. Later ~

Richard Chamberland as Dr. Kildare

Stop at market then Office Depot to drop ink cartridges and buy replacements. Home and check e-mail with olives, cheese and girls. Work at computer sending and answering e-mail. I sent out a link from youtube of my episode of Dr. Kildare from 1963 when I was 20. Here it is - just the first scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSQu4WmI2k
And yes, that was my hair, and yes, I had a flat stomach. Talk to Beth. Joel calls. Stop at 10:30 to go to living room and watch last weeks Justified. Make some lunch and eat while viewing. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Read some articles in a magazine. Sweep floors. Clean up side yard. Work in office. Beth home and help her unload. We talk. I fix dinner while sha makes calls. We eat and talk. After, we watch recording of NCIS. Later ~

Here's my mom, Vera, with her favorite dog, Brownie - taken early 20s

Haircut by Sherry after meeting - see Mel. Home and check e-mail with two slices of cheese and girls. Drive to gunsmith, Jerry Simms house and pick up guns. Springs on both weapons are so much better now. Call and meet Beth at Costco; where we buy me some more Hawaiian shirts. She picks up some frozen goods; plus a bag of dog cookies with 500 mg. of glucosimine. We have hot dog and pizza at Costco. Home and unload car. Cookies and check e-mail. Feed girls glucosimine cookies - Crystal loved hers. New great way to get her to take Glucosomine. Down for nap with girls. Up and check e-mail; bring in mail. UPS delivers two orders for Beth: one has to go back. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Sweep floors; clean up side yard. Work at computer. Beth home and to her computer. I fix dinner and we eat. We watch recording of CSI: Miami. Later ~

Buster Crabbe and Al "Fuzzy" St. John

Home from meeting. Check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Make some phone calls; leave messages. Talk to Beth. Take off at 9:30 and drive to gunsmith Jerry's house. Meet Jerry and his friend Fred. We talk and exchange cards. I leave guns to be worked on. Stop at Weinershnitzel for chili dogs. Home and watch a Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy St John PRC western. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Check answering phone - Jerry has guns ready. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Call Jerry and make appointment for tomorrow. Work at computer for awhile. Beth is home early, Bring in her stuff. We talk over soft drinks. She to office while I make dinner. We eat - she washes her hair; then she back to office; and I join her. Bed early - she watches DWTS and I sleep. Later ~

Brother Bobby and Me with Johnny Mack Brown - Iverson Ranch Western Street (1951)


Sleep in day. Beth up early and off to Hall. I up 5:30: shower, dress, eat breakfast with paper. Trim beard. Check more e-mail and news sites. Beth home and we talk. Both to office and work. I off to pick up lunch from Subway. Home and we eat - she veggie sandwich; me a veggie small pizza. She reads paper while I do an IMDb search on Johnny Mack Brown to find his height and age. I go down for nap with girls. Up and sit with Beth in office while checking e-mail. To kitchen and take pills; feed girls; and read. To office and read some e-mails. Spend time in office. To kitchen and make chips and dip. Beth in and we eat. After, we watch two episodes of Carol Burnett on DVD she ordered. Later ~

Tom Sellack as Jesse Stone


Misty

Crystal

Grocery shopping after meeting; then home and put it all away. Beth home and she works at her computer doing Maad Dog Daze stuff. We take off around a quarter to 10:00 and meet at nail shop. I get pedicure; she gets pedi-and manicure. I run to Kohl's and buy new underwear. See Arnold C. and his wife. Meet Beth at Yellow Basket for lunch - we each have a fish taco. Home and get ready for nap then down with girls. I hear Beth come in - she stopped by Home Depot to get some flowers for her pots. Up after 3:00. Beth has just watched the Preakness. I bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Spend afternoon on computer. Set up appointment with gunsmith for Monday. Beth on computer with a helper - I cook dinner and eat it while it's hot. Into office and she's still ordering online with phone assistance. I write here. Hi Canadian Charlie and Judy. I finish eating and she's still on phone. She finally hangs up and eats. Then we watch the last half of the Jesse Stone mystery we recorded last Sunday. Later ~

Clint Eastwood and John Saxon - poster for Joe Kid

Director John Sturges with Clint Eastwood on Joe Kidd set

I led meeting this morning.
Home from meeting and I'm greeted by Brenda; who is there to clean for Beth. I to office and check e-mail and news sites with olives, cheese, pretzels and girls. Talk to Beth then find contact info for her in several web sites. End up in living room - and after making my lunch, I eat with the ending of Eastwood's Joe Kidd. Brenda leaves. I down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Into office and answer e-mail from an old high-school friend. Work at computer for a while longer. To dinind room o watch O'Reilly. Beth is getting color so she's later than usual. When she gets home we eat and tlk. Then it's a recordine of CSI: Vegas from last night. Later ~

We attended memorial for our friend Dori Watt today; here she is with her dog Coco who preceded her in death by three weeks

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Spend some time on computer. Beth by at 10:30 to pick me up and we to Catholic Church in Cathedral City for Dori's memorial service. After, all to Roy's restaurant for snacks and talk. Beth drops me at home then heads back to her work. I check e-mail then down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Scan one of Beth's magazines. Work in office. Try calling S&W Service Center. Beth home and we talk. She makes fish tacos for herself; I have a salad. Trash out. We watch an hour of the Jesse Stone Tom Sellack TV Movie we recorded last weekend. She showers. Later ~

Our girls' Christmas 2009 Photo

Home after meeting and check e-mail and news sites with girls, cheese, and olives. Damon's workers here to work on tiles. I put girls in car and take them to groomer. Home and I work in office while they seal tile throughout house. When they are done, then leave. I wait for an hour before I go to kitchen and make lunch; then to living room and watch a Gene Autry western while I eat. Talk to Beth. Down for limited nap - no girls, of course. Up and drive to groomer where I pick up girls and bring them home. Feed girls. I bring in mail and open it for Beth. Check out new True West. Work in office for awhile. Queen Mary book came today - sent by Canadian Charlie. Scan the book and look at photos; will read at a later time. Beth home and we talk. She to office to work and take calls. I fix some salads then we eat. She back to office after dinner. I set up TV for viewing. She in and we watch last Tuesday's episode of NCIS. Later ~

Our niece Kelley and her hubby Steve

My brother-in-law - Beth's brother - Bruce with Misty

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with olives, cheese, pretzels and girls. Work at computer for awhile. Drive to Palm Desert and buy dog food; home and open bag and put into large can - set up small can for girls and clean up garage. Sweep the house. Clean up side yard. Call Beth at 11:00 a.m. she's on way home and Kelly is almost here. Kelly arrives with her husband and her father - Beth's brother. Beth arrives and we all to Palm Desert for Mexican lunch. Home after and Beth begins lessons on online banking with Kelly. Bruce, Steve and I sit around table in back yard. Bruce takes Beth's gun apart and oils it. After nearly three hours, they head home. Beth over to her place of employment to check out the place; I to Nader's station to get us some ice cream for later. Work on blog. Beth home and we both work in office. Then to living room for recording of last night's CSI: Miami. Later ~

John Wayne in his Lone Star years

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with cheese, pretzels, olives, and girls. Beth here with Luis and Tony - she shows them what she wants to do in side yard and they do it; then all three leave. I work at teaching Crystal how to use her bedroom ramp. Drive into Palm Desert to drop used clothes at Southwest Thrift Shop. Stop at McDonald's to pick up lunch; then home. Watch an old John Wayne Lone Star western while I eat. Beth calls and we talk. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Clean up side yard. Write here. Work at computer. Clean up side yard. Beth home and we talk. She cooks dinner. We eat. Both to office. She watches DWTS while I put out trash and go to bed. Later ~

Our friend Dori Watt and her CoCo - both gone in the same month

We found out today that Dori Watt died of a heart attack on a plane in flight.
Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 5:30. Shower, dress, breakfast and paper. Beth home and she starts in on doing my pill boxes. I sit with her; then into office. Call from Dori's sister about Dori's death. She had a heart attack on a plane coming back from vacation and the plane was diverted to Chicago. We don't know yet what day this happened. Beth off to meet Brenda and they'll shop at Sam's Club for Hall. I watch TV. Make me some lunch and eat while I view show. Beth home before show over. We talk; then I down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Beth watching golf - I sit in with her. Office and work for awhile. She joins me. I into kitchen and make salads for dinner; some soup for her. After, we watch Cops and other similar shows. Later ~

Our friend Brenda Hughes

Grocery shopping after meeting (I left early). then home and Brenda helps me unload and I put stuff away. Brenda is cleaning house. I check e-mail and news sites with cheese and girls. Beth home before long; then she is joined by Sherry Priess and Brooke, friends who will help her figure out how to operate a PayPal set up for Maad Dog Daze. Jerry and Mark here with bedroom TV table extension and Crystal's bed ramp. They leave and I watch TV in bedroom; then I move to living room for TV. When Beth's friends leave, I fix lunch and we eat. I down for nap with girls. Up and she's watching golf. I bring in mail and open it. I read the Reminisce magazine. To office to work awhile. Decide to go out to dinner tonight. We to Fish Place next to Trader Joe's; to Rote aid for ice cream after. Then it's home and try to set up a movie but Movies on Demand isn't working tonight. After frantically trying to find a movie on another channel, we end up watching a NCIS rerun - with commercials. Later ~

Palm Desert Leather Plus Store (and some of the stock)





Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with olives, pretzels, cheese and girls. Call Jimmy George in Mississippi and we talk for awhile. After, I to living room and watch a western in progress on The Western Channel. Make a sandwich and eat lunch while viewing. Talk to Beth; then down for nap with girls. Up an bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Work at the computer. Clean up side yard. I am now a proud supporter of the Palm Desert Leather Plus store - run by my good friend, Joel Peters. Beth home and we bring her stuff inside. I fix dinner and we eat. Watch recording of CSI: Vegas from last night. Later ~

Round Table

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Surf for awhile then head for Indio to meet with Joel before I go to Chinese place for my monthly Conservative Round Table lunch and discussion. Home by 2:30 p.m. - feed girls; bring in mail; open mail. Talk to Beth - then down for hour nap. Clean up side yard. Work at computer. Beth home and she to office to catch up on e-mail. She reads mail. She off to meet Joel at Palm Desert Leather Plus store at 6:00 p.m. I watch some TV then try to call Jimmy George. Beth back and we watch recording of The Good Wife. Later ~

Robert Taylor in Return of the Gunfighter

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with cheese, olives, pretzels and girls. Take care of a few things before I drive to dermatologist's office. Call Paul our bug man re appointment. Into Dr. office and have some small cancers frozen; plus a small biopsy. Home and call Paul. He over in less than a half hour. New bait on garage rat motels. He leaves and I cook something for lunch and watch Return of the Gunfighter with Robert Taylor and Chad Everett. Canadian Charlie calls and we talk about last week and other events. Down for my nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Call Beth. Work in office. Clean up side yard. Beth home and takes check to bank. She home again and she's bough me more Hawaiian shirts. Make dinner and we eat. After we watch recording of last night's NCIS. She shower and we down for night. Later ~

Stop at grocery store on way home to get some things we've run out of. Home and check e-mail and news sites with cheese, pretzels and girls. Beth here with Luis and Tony to work on sprinklers. They leave - coming back Friday. Jerry and his partner here to replace doggie-door flaps; also measure for our bedroom's TV stand and Crystal's ramp. They leave. I work in office for awhile; then to living room where I watch: South of the Border, with Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette. Make and eat lunch while viewing. Talk to Paul, our bug man) - we have rats in the garage and he will be by tomorrow to lay some more bait. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Spend some more time on computer. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Watch a National Geographic special on ICE on the border using Indian agents. Beth home. She makes some fish tacos for herself - I have a salad and bread sticks. Both to office after dinner and work. When done, we watch CSI: Miami - then she watches DWTS in bed. Later ~

With Judy and Canadian Charlie two years ago at Pioneertown


Home from meeting: check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Note from Charlie in Canada. We exchange a few e-mails. Do a photo transfer for Beth. Talk to Jerry Alcorn - he will be by tomorrow to fix doggie-door and build our bedroom TV stand higher. Send a thank you to a fan. Call and talk to Charlie and Judy in Canada. Beth by for minute to drop a few things off. I to TV and watch a Eddie Dean Western while I eat lunch. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Pills. Feed girls. Open mail for Beth. Scan new Western Clippings. Take out some trash. Clean up side yard. Work at computer for awhile. Beth home; I make salad and soup - we eat. Then she off to Indio Jail for her H&I commitment. I get call from Comtron re alarm at her work. They call her. She calls back and I run over and check the place. Tell her all is well. Drive home. Work on computer until 8:00 then go to bed with TV on. Beth in later to watch DWTS then bed. Later ~

Fired My SA Colt .45 For The First Time Today

Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up 5:30: shower and dress; eat breakfast; and read paper; then trim my beard. Beth with Brenda and we give yer our old TV. We do some office work, then it's off to Wal-Mart to buy 20 wading pools. Drive to Orphan Pet Oasis (Misty and Crystal are alumni), and drop off pools. Then we drive to the Palm Springs Gun Club and do some target shooting. Beth learns to shoot her new .38 revolver. I fire my .38. Plus I use my single-action Colt .45 for the first time. Stop for lunch after then home. Share an ice-cream sandwich. Beth off to new Leather Plus store; I down for nap with girls. Up and clean the guns. Write here. Beth is cooking. I putz here in the office. She calls and we eat. After, we to office and continue working. Later ~

Grocery shopping after meeting; home and put away. Beth is checking on houses she manages. Check e-mail and news sites with girls and cheese and olives. Meet Beth at nail place and we get pedicures. I head over to Sam's Club while she has her nails done. Buy some groceries - and when Beth joins me, we buy a 32-inch Phillips TV for the bedroom. We to Yellow Basket for fish taco lunch. Home. Wait for Time-Warner guy. Try to snooze but he calls and comes over early. His name is Ray - he installs HD Recording boxes on living room TV and bedroom TV. He leaves. Thank you note from Charlie and Judy. Beth works in the office while I start dinner. Eventually we eat. After I set new boxes then join Beth in office. Later ~