Oak Desk Chair

Saturday February 13, 1993

I slept well again. Awake at 7:00. I feel good. I have cereal, OJ and 1/2 grapefruit. Gary, boys and Frank leave about 10:30 for Marklein to fix the roof. I bake a cake for dinner. Then I call Maria and arrange to pick her up at 1:30. When I pick her up she wants to go to the Oak Store to buy Gary a chair for his desk for Valentine's Day tomorrow. We find a great chair.

I'm tired after 1-1/2 hours so rest when I get home. Frank returns at 4:00. We start the tri tip steak and baked potatoes. Maria will bring the salad. The boys stay with us while Gary and Maria go to a concert. A pretty good day for me. I even ate dinner.

I don't know what Gary's chair looked like, but the photo above looks just like the oak chair I had at my desk for years. So glad Mom had a good day and could spend some quality time with her grandsons.

Marklein is the rental house that Mom sold to Gary a few years earlier. He lived there until purchasing the house in Simi Valley.

The Gatlin Brothers Concert

Tuesday August 25, 1992

Up and ready to go to the fair in Ventura by noon. Frank went to the valley in the morning to replace the kitchen faucet at Gledhill.

We have a great time seeing the sights of the fair. I feel real good. We have dinner and stay for the concert of the Gatlin Brothers. It was a bit windy and cold outside but fun.

Mom and Frank loved jazz but they enjoyed country western music too. As a child of the 60s I grew up listening to rock and roll, not country, so have never acquired a taste for it.

This day Frank is replacing a kitchen faucet, which is ironic, because I just talked to Frank this week and told him how hard it is to get away with our rentals constantly demanding attention. Our first day of our vacation in Oregon last month I heard from one of our tenants that their kitchen faucet was spraying all over the kitchen when they turned it on and could we come by to fix it. Fortunately, this tenant was skilled enough to replace his own faucet once we told him where to buy a new one, but other tenants and other disasters require immediate personal attention.