Mom's Birthday dinner

We took my mom out to eat for her birthday. We went to a place that Louise's parents eat at often. It is Al the Wops in Locke Ca. I will let you read about the town at http://www.locketown.com/als.htm if you want more information.

We had a great dinner of steak and pasta.

This town was built by the Chinese and Al bought one of the buildings in 1934 and started serving steaks.

It took us over three hours to get there and after looking at the map, it only was an hour and a half home. We drove up and down the deltas looking for the place. I called Louise's mom a couple of times. We just kept getting turned around. Guess I should have pulled it up on the computer!

Pumpkin patch

Louise took some pictures of me watering the pumpkin this morning. It has grown a lot this last week. You can see I placed a baseball next to it so you can compare the size.

2009 pumpkins are growing!

I have two pumpkins that are off and running now. It has been a slow start this year with the rabbits eating plants. I still have about six weeks of growing time left. I think I will let both of the go this year. they are on opposite ends of the plant. We shall see. I will try weekly updates now.

John's 50th B-day in the park

I had a great day at Disneyland with my wonderful wife. The line for rides were not long so we did almost all the rides we wanted to do. We had a great lunch at the BBQ ranch. It is severed family style with chicken and ribs. I think that is the first time I left a meal there stuffed!