Zim Zam!

If you're a Terrill - or related to one - you've gotta be thankful for Zim Zam - and all the good memories that go with it!!

Being a "California Girl"

Have been driving back and forth between GH and Monrovia this week - listening to the Beach Boys, Pete Seeger, and some oldies but goodies just to break up the NPR fare - sometimes you get duplicates.

This is a shot from a Clayton family reunion of yore - not sure which yore though!!

Alice talked about how much she wanted to rent a place by the beach - and have a big gathering.   I always envision that too - hasn't happened often though.

The beach is romanticized in story and song - that's for sure.  And Leslie likes to say that "you can take the girl out of California, but you can't take California out of the girl" and maybe she's right.

I'm a California girl who's still here, and I can't seem to get to the beach very often!!

We will keep trying though - and we'll let you know when the party starts - and how much per night it is!

Saturday night ruminations

When everyone was here for the holidays, I had Matt go get s'more fixings. But we never got around to using them. Like money burning a hole in your pocket, graham crackers, Hershey bars, and marshmallows "burn" a hole in my "pocket" too!!

YM/YW Beach Party - 1997 (me, John Hanke, Melissa Moore, Katie Cornwall, Emily Graham)

Dad is wont to start fires - in the fireplace of course - most nights. And he gets distracted and goes off to do other things that need doing, and the fire burns down and lovely coals are left. Coals just itching to toast a marshmallow. And just like giving a mouse a cookie, a toasted marshmallow needs a graham cracker with half of a Hershey bar on it!!

I either need to have a s'mores party - or a I need to just get them eaten up!!