August 29th, 2024

August 29th, 2024

Bill and I have been battling with our Homeowners association for almost 6 years over their landscaping maintenance company blowing grass clippings up into our front yard and bark beds. No, they don't sweep up the clippings, they blow the grass clippings and weed seeds into the front yards and into the street. One day, between edging our grass and then mowing our grass, I collected a 5-gallon bucket of clippings. In one day!



You can imagine how my bark beds looked after 52 buckets of grass clippings being blown into them year after year.

Over the past 6 years I sent numerous emails and photos asking for the maintenance crew NOT to blow the grass clippings into my yard to no avail. Then a month ago, I was driving home thru my neighborhood and I saw a truck with "Central Coast Synthetic Turf" on the side. A light clicked on in my head and I called the minute I got home.

Fast forward. I met Dave Bozarth, the owner of Ozone Landscaping and Central Coast Synthetic Turf. His entire 20-year career has been in landscaping and he now installs synthetic turf as well. Dave just finished installing synthetic turf and new bark in our front yard on August 29, 2024. Simply stated, it is stunning! He has a large crew, 7 guys worked on my yard one day alone, and they were all meticulous in their work and their attention to detail and their clean up. Start to finish, my entire front yard took 4 days. So if you have an issue with yard debris being blown into your yard, and if you're tired of watering and fertilizing and weeding and brown spots, here's your solution — install synthetic turf! It's luscious and soft and comes in a multitude of colors and textures unlike the old days when it looked like green industrial carpeting. It's one of the best upgrades we've made to our home. Plus Dave is one of the nicest easiest guys I've ever worked with. Five stars, Dave!

  

  

Dave Bozarth, owner
Ozone Landscaping and Central Coast Synthetic Turf
1153 Coral Street, San Luis Obispo CA 93405
Mobile 805-260-1690

July 24th, 2024

On July 12th I had very minor surgery to straighten the second toe on my right foot which I've needed to do for years. When I left the hospital that morning I was all prepared to wear a walking boot for 8 weeks. I was not prepared to learn that I had to be totally non weight bearing on my right foot for the first two weeks. Essentially I had to become a flamingo for two weeks!

Crutches were a bad option ... uh uh, too unsteady for this lady. So I rented a knee scooter but for the last 15 years I've been babying my right knee to avoid having a knee replacement so kneeling on my right knee turned out to be another bad option. I thought about renting a wheelchair but my house like others in the last 40 years or so was built with toilets in their own little tiny separate rooms and I couldn't get a wheelchair in any of my three toilet rooms. So instead I got myself a rolling stool like doctors use in their examining rooms and this has made it really easy to get around.

Still, it's been tiring pulling myself up and down everytime I need to stand at the bathroom sink or transfer to a chair or stand at the kitchen counter or go potty. Too much information? This'll make you laugh. Go sit on the potty then put your left foot on the floor and put your right foot out in front of you. Now try to get up. No? Try it again.



It's not easy being a flamingo.

July 14th, 2024

One of the most incredible photos ever taken
capturing one of the most HORRIFIC moments
in the history of the United States

July 2nd, 2024 — 3:00pm

So it was mid afternoon and a gorgeous day here on the Central Coast of California. The rest of the western half of the U.S. was in the midst of a record-setting heat wave but not here. It couldn't have been more beautiful. As I was driving south on the 101 freeway, I came up on one of those Amber Alert signs. This time the sign said . . .

EXTREME HEAT
STAY COOL
DRINK WATER

I started laughing out loud. It was 3pm and the thermometer on my car said 78 degrees! Extreme heat? Really? Our weather here is nearly always perfect but everytime there's a little weather issue, we panic. We are such wimps! I wished I could have stopped the car and taken a photo because no one was going to believe me. But guess what. Someone with a drone was thinking the same thing when he took this photo of Highway 101 in Nipomo. I got the photo the next day off CNN's website. We actually made national news!

June 6th, 2024

Wowie zowie! My sister-in-law Julia is famous! She's on an advertising banner for the San Diego County Fair at the Del Mar Fairgrounds this year. Julia's friend found out a couple of months ago that the fair organizers were taking photos for the banners so they went and had their pictures taken. My brother Jeff said the banners just went up a couple of days ago as the fair runs from June 12th to July 7th. And he said that the banner with Julia's photo is on a pole just above the stoplight at the intersection of Balboa Avenue and Mount Abernathy Avenue in Clairemont in the northern part of San Diego. This is sooo cool.

If you live near San Diego, be sure to go to the fair as it's one of the biggest and best in the country. And if you're out driving around the city, stop and take a look at Julia's banner!

June 6th, 2024

Look at this wonderful photo! It's one of those amazing moments in time that my girlfriend captured of her son blowing bubbles and his dog's newly discovered talent of catching them. They had no idea he was so athletic! Be sure to tap on the photo to get the full effect of the leap.

June 4th, 2024

My very favorite dessert is lemon meringue pie. Unfortunately it takes hours to make. So I found this super easy, super fast recipe for lemon cream pie and it's light and delicious and it requires no baking! I tweaked the original recipe a little — I added lemon zest to the filling, and I substituted a no-bake Oreo pretzel crust for the traditional baked pie crust — and this makes the pie even better. Here's a link to the recipe. — Lemon Cream Pie

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Please keep
our soldiers
in your hearts



and stay healthy
and safe
and as always
I hope you find
something here
that makes you
smile!





— Bill —
We celebrated our 37th anniversary last New Years Eve.

I've now been married longer than I was alive when we got married! How about that!
We're still pals and I sometimes watch golf with him on tv and he sometimes helps me cook and garden and even after all these years we still think everything's better together.





IN HEARTFELT MEMORY



— Bailey —
Bailey was our first cockapoo and the most incredible little dog. Everyone knew our little guy because he went everywhere with us for almost 17 years — restaurants, movie theatres, graduations, more airplanes than most people, he even went on a 3-day jury duty trial with me in 1993 (of course no one knew). And he was so cute that he won Kim Basinger's Nuts for Mutts dog show in 2005 for being the cutest dog out of hundreds.



— Andi Pandi —
She was my treasure and my little shadow for almost 17 years and the last of our animals to leave us. She left a huge hole in our lives that we'll never be able to fill.



— Murphy —
My big black hunk of pure love who's favorite place was my lap even though he weighed 50 lbs.




— Boo Boo —
I had coffee every morning with Boo snuggling in my lap. I used to say I liked my coffee with a little cream, a little sugar, and a lotta kitty!