March - June
We got together for lunch in Fairfield to celebrate Zoe's birthday:
A few days later Joyce and Mike DJ'd for their Line Dance Club:
March 22 News: Joe and Bonnie Engagement:
Later in March, the Old Folks gathered in Roseville for our monthly get together and to celebrate a special birthday for Lana:
April started with another visit to doctors at Stanford. After receiving positive news about Barbara’s progress, we celebrated with lunch at the nearby mall where Barbara admired the spring flowers. Later on, we stopped by Seacliff beach then the Aquarium in Monterey:
A few days later we received the sad news that my cousin Lynn had passed away:
Later in April, Barbara and I joined my sisters and our cousin Joan (Lynn’s sister) and Joan’s husband Tom for lunch in Woodland:
Joan and Joyce with the Black Bear Diner bear; Joan presents Zoe with an heirloom vase from her grandmother Zoe Sheets Collins
Back in Paradise, we saw more progress from the 2018 Camp Fire when our street was finally repaved:
A few days later, an article in the Catholic Herald featured our recent Camino efforts.
We saw a sign of good times to come when we viewed a double rainbow from our dining room window:
FORT BRAGG FISHING
Jeff, Joe and I met on a Friday evening for fish and chips with a few beers at Little River south of Fort Bragg to begin Joe’s bachelor’s weekend.
After dinner, we drove to the Holiday Inn to rest up for an early Saturday fishing trip. While I slept, they had a few more drinks to kick off the get together. By sunrise, we headed for Noyo Harbor to board the Royal Sea Hawk to fish for rockfish.
Once onboard, we snapped a quick picture before heading out of the harbor:
We each took at least one Dramamine to help with seasickness. Jeff and I were okay as we headed a few mile south, but Joe was soon losing his breakfast overboard.
We were envious when a fisherman next to me brought in the first fish of the day:
Pelicans followed us closely to snag loose bait or small fish that were thrown overboard:
Sick or not, a few minutes later Joe was the first of our group to reel in a fish, a Rosie rockfish:
Between fishing stops, Jeff and Joe took a break.
Further south, I took a picture of Jeff with Mendocino behind him:
A while later, the crew asked us to reel in our lines so that the captain could search for another spot to fish. Since I was slow, a crew member helped me reel in. Then I noticed (I never realized that they were on my line) that I had two fish, one on each of my two hooks, a Rosie and a China rockfish:
At one of last stops before noon, Jeff hooked a Yellow Eye rockfish, bigger than the fish that Joe and I had caught. One of the crew unhooked Jeff’s fish and threw it back into the ocean because it is considered endangered.
The crew filleted our fish before we entered the harbor. We had enough for some tasting at Mom’s Mother’s Day celebration on Sunday.
MOTHERS DAY 2024
