There’s got to be a better way. As of this date, Christmas tree is still up and plugged in. At thanksgiving Sheba is more than willing to haul down the attic the half dozen boxes to erect and decorate a tree. However, when it comes time to dismantle and put the tree and itsContinue reading “Oh Christmas tree. How do we put you away?”
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Oh nuts with a White Christmas.
I’m dreaming of a somewhat hazy Christmas. Just like the ones I use to know. Just like in my little village of Los Angeles. Busy with people and cars honking, crowded shopping malls, difficulty finding a parking space, and a red-kettled bell ringer at every mall entrance. Not to mention a light shroud ofContinue reading “Oh nuts with a White Christmas.”
I’ll watch the bag. You go pee.
After celebrating Christmas with the In-laws on the mainland. Wife and I were sitting in the waiting area at the San Francisco airport or SFO. Waiting on our plane to depart going back to Honolulu to our island home. Then a distinguished swarthy looking middle eastern man in a nice gray tailored suit andContinue reading “I’ll watch the bag. You go pee.”
Twas the night before Christmas
The night before Christmas and peeking out the back window shade. It must had been about 10-O-clock and I was peeking out the back bedroom window. What I saw was most encouraging. I saw my dad carrying into the back door a brand-new blue Schwinn 3-speed racer bicycle. I thought to myself, hot diggitydog! Continue reading “Twas the night before Christmas”
It’s no fair fudging
You can’t fudge with this. She would take a stick of real butter and my mom would smear the grade A butter around in the bottom of her large shallow serving dish. What would happen after cooking up the fudgy mix is pour the thick mixture in to the buttered serving dish, then placeContinue reading “It’s no fair fudging”
My mom and her trendy Xmas trees.
She talked to the trees. Once we moved east to our new and bigger house in L A County my mom thought it trendy to buy a fake Christmas tree. One wants to follow the trends of course. My mom was a devoted trend follower. Getting most of her inspiration from the Sears andContinue reading “My mom and her trendy Xmas trees.”
The Freshman 24/7.
 College Freshmen are the more stupider. First semester of my freshman year I thought I could juggle two jobs along with the last week of my college classes. I was in the final week before Christmas break December 1962. Our class counselor told me of a seasonal job at the Sears west coast catalogueContinue reading “The Freshman 24/7.”
Think Snow.
So it’s Christmas. We rode with my friends parents to downtown Los Angeles to Pershing Square. On the ground level was a landscaped park with normal variety of trees, bushes, and mowed grass with a paved common area for gatherings and political speeches. However we were just looking for the underground parking entrance. Once weContinue reading “Think Snow.”
Our vacation summer 1952.
What to do with an eight-year-old boy? We were on, what they call vacation. Our family and my Aunt Elsie drove from California all the way to Oklahoma. My dad, mom, older brother, youngest sister, and myself rumbled through the heat and dust storms in order to visit kinfolk in Oklahoma. Never mind they inContinue reading “Our vacation summer 1952.”
We drove to Sears once a year.
Before we could do Easter… The Saturday before Easter we all drove to Sears in East L A. The place was the main Sears catalogue store at Soto and Olympic. A tall ten-story building just east of the concrete L A River. After arriving and parking My two sisters would go with our mom andContinue reading “We drove to Sears once a year.”
Chuck the Blogger Guy 