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A Day at the Park

Lately Eli and I have been visiting the baby park down the street every morning before the big kids show up. He is loving the swing and the slide the best.

A couple of days ago we started “Ferberizing” him. Which means letting him cry it out in his crib until he falls asleep. Up until [...]

1st Annual Ocean Beach Garden Party Tour

A couple of weekends ago we sent out an email to a couple of our neighborhood friends to see if they’d like to partake in a garden party tour. Here’s what it said,

“Summer is here and are gardens are almost in full bloom! Our guys have been toiling away in the garden for months now [...]

Saturday Afternoon Almost Spring

We had a wonderful Saturday afternoon in Ocean Beach. We started out the morning with a walk down to the beach. We picked up some breakfast burritos at Nicos on the way down. It is almost starting to become a family weekend tradition. The lady at the counter that calls me chico new my order [...]

4th of July Southern Style

We celebrated the Fourth of July “Southern Style”. Southern California that is, Smoked Pol-Pork, Pork Ribs, Spare Ribs, Brisket, Yard Bird and Live Honkey Tonk.

Our friends decided to host the BBQ, but allot of different people pitched in to make it a blast. The main cook “Jr” originally from Texas (pictured above) stayed up most [...]

Walk Through the Neighborhood

With the ice storms and nasty weather across many parts of the US today we knew that we had something to be thankful for on our walk this beautiful San Diego morning.

This is view from the top of our street looking down to the beach.This is the view to the north looking over Mission [...]

Garage Sale Weekend

Lyndsey assured me that it was time to start getting rid of some of the extra junk we have been accumulating and moving around with us. For example three window AC units that we brought out from Texas. We are in San Diego, by the beach, we do not need the those any more. Plus [...]

Captains Log :2: First Voyage

Yesterday was the day we moved our boat to its new home. It was still at Driscoll Boat yard and we needed to sail it out of Mission bay, around Point Loma, and into it’s slip at Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor. Everything worked fine, which was quite a relief.

The red line plots the [...]

OB Parrots

So we live by an airport, and planes fly by. You actually get use to it, the loud sound of the planes and all. You just learn to stop your conversations, or turn up the volume on your ipod and wait for it to pass. We have another loud shrieking sound that we hear as [...]