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Hearing Watching the NBC News This Place has NO Cable!
I'm Back In The SMOG!
Well after a 33 year absence from the San Francisco Bay Area, here I sit in Belmont, about 16 miles from my beloved Half Moon Bay, the place I spent my happier teenage years. BUT in 33 years, all has changed. The 500 folk who populated HMB (Half Moon Bay) back in the 1960's has jumped to 10,000 and it's become yet another suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Mateo Road is now referred to as Highway 92 and has bumper to bumper traffic on a daily basis.
WHY am I here? I'm here because my very best friend of 41 years put out the call for help. She lost her dad back in October and her mother wasn't handling it very well with hourly calls to her, not eating and generally very "needy". Well guess if I handled my loss of Robert after just 7 years, then I'd have really been a wreck after being married for over 60 years!
So, I loaded up the dogs, Gigi and Bear, put the two older cats in their cat harnesses and Gidget in the cat carrier and headed Northwest to Belmont on November 7th, 2007.
The critters have handled it stoickly! Gigi and Bear have adapted to just living in a small back yard, guarding it, making sure that nobody comes into their new digs without them making LOTS of racket and even a visiting cougar (In BELMONT???).
See Gigi's smiling at the camera!!! She was daring the cougar to come and visit! Afterall she's dealt with cougars, bears, bobcats and LOTS of coyotes in Onyx and Walker Basin! So, what's one cityfied cougar got that they don't?
Then within the first couple of days, Ceci plops my fanny up on HER horse, Rocky. He's an aged tobiano pinto gelding, who's as cute as a bug's ear and all the fire of a mini Grey.
See, isn't Rocky CUTE?
Well I came into this house and immediately started cooking. There's no way to better get another woman going than to take over her kitchen. First, she started eating, then belly aching about what her cleaning woman did with stuff, then finally a month later, she's basically thrown me out of her kitchen...:::Laughing::: Mrs. M has started finding herself again.
Yesterday, for the first time in years, she actually drove herself to her sewing club meeting (They don't sew, they gossip and eat!) and I stayed home, like a nervous parent, by the phone waiting to make sure she got there safely and that she was having a good time.
In the interm of while I've been here, my best friend, Ceci's hubby got injured so she really couldn't dedicate full time to her mom, so she was still busy, but more of it spent with her hub and not her mom.
There's Ceci and Rocky, getting ready to ride. Okay, I don't wear a helmet and if I get my neck broke, it's my own stupid fault, but too many years of riding without one makes it hard for me to use one unless I'm going over a fence and I'm too old for that nowadays!
Anyway, I'll be home on the 27th finally and hope all is still in one piece and I don't have any water leaks or things like that. Jack and Denise are watching over the place and Andy shows up periodically. Thank you guys!
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I found your journal a long time ago, and put you on my alerts, hoping you would come back and look here, here you are with a great entry! You have done a great thing for your friend and her mother, you really stepped up, you are a great friend. I know you will be glad to be back home though, no place like home. Its a shame how 'progress' never ends and ruins little quaint towns like you saw happen. So far we have been spared in my little town, though up the road in the next town they have a big Walmart and a strip of new things to come, and there is rumor of a Lowes being built next to the Walmart. Once it begins, they never know when to quit.
12/28/07 7:45 AM
The photos are wonderful. That pinto looks adorable.
Jo