New Year's Eve Golf

Happy New Tradition...

Finish the old year with a round of Golf!

Thanks to my brother Carl for calling and suggesting this. What a terrific day on the green park with all those silly flags. We took a LONG WALK out in the green and lush Los Angeles countryside. (Uptown)

It was great. Those greens at the country club are killer even with the help of a caddy to give you a read. After playing all the city public courses your not ready for the FAST roll on the really professionally maintained private courses.

But it was fun. And I got my buddy Jeffery to tag along with us. It was a good Guys Day Out for me. Good for the heart and soul.

No wonder Trisha's brother is always out playing golf. Over Christmas I heard about how he plays 27 holes of golf 3 to 5 days a week or more!

Thank you Carl. Thanks for your company Jeff.

Loved the day with both of you.

Keith

A very 'In-laws' Christmas

Ho ho ho

We had a good time. Mostly with my wife's side of the family.
It was a good simple homestead Christmas filled with helpful hands of Trisha's brother and sister. This made Trish very happy. It was good and warm hearted.

Thomas got the item he really wanted from Santa. How that happened I do not know. ;-)



We all got to share some grins and basically had plenty of good meals at the family dinning table. Very pleasant.

Hope you all found the joy this holiday.

Keith

Merry Christmas

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Fox on the Golf Course.

I played a little golf yesterday at Penmar. It is a local City of LA 9 hole course.



We were very pleasantly surprised to see a fox sitting by the first green. He successfully staked out a squirrel hole. Very cool that such wildlife is able to thrive in the city.

BTW a special Thank You, shout out to my buddy Jeffery, who called and got me to come out and play. We had some fun and it got me out of a dreadful funk from work and stresses of the holidays etc.

And at the end of it we went to see the new movie Avatar on the big 3D IMax screen. Thomas and I loved it. Jeffery thinks it will be a big cultural event like Titanic was not so long ago. Or a big event like "Gone with the Wind" when it gets to the Oscars etc.

K

Happy Holidays

Here in our area we have some cool holiday traditions. There is a Boat Parade out in the Marina Del Rey harbor that is fun. But at night hard to get a lot of good photos. It was cold and raining. And Trish and I were a little under the weather ourselves. So we missed it. Our friend were out in it and won some nice prizes. congrats to Keith Guyot and the "La Vouca Reys".(sp?)

In Venice on the canals there is a similar parade but on the smaller scale boats.

Here are some photos to share. ( Thanks to YoVenice.com )

Bla bla bla - stuff this past 2 weeks

Have not been out on the boat since Thanksgiving day.

I did get the first strand of the Xmas lights up. (last weekend)
We did get a Tree and have it ready to bring into the house.
Thomas did have a Flag Football playoff game. (Thurs)
MDRAnglers did have it's holiday party and meeting. (Weds)

MDRA was interesting. I did win the raffle. I was elected to the Board of Directors of the club. Now I am struggling with whether or not to toss my hat in the ring for the president position.

Enough about that... I need to stop and get back to work.

Keith <"><

blog post "apropos" to Thanksgiving

Just posted to my Facebook, my La La Land blog and to my Westside Income Property blog.

So the thought here is apropos of getting words out.

Words
as slippery as smooth grapes,
words exploding in the light
like dormant seeds waiting
in the vaults of vocabulary,
alive again, and giving life:
once again the heart distills them.

-Pablo Neruda, poet

See my Income-property blog
or my La La Land la-real-estate blog
and look for my
related Thanksgiving Thoughts post for this 2009.

I could rag about spending yesterday in court on a subpoena for a case 13 years old. or that I have too much work to do for my vacancies in apartments... or that my spouse is not having more family in for Thanksgiving dinner... Or that there is not enough fish. Or enough Snow on the mountains.

I really am Thankful for many good Tenant Applicants.

I really am Thankful for the fun of spending time with my son Thomas as his flag football team won first place.

And Thankful Ryan's high school water polo team won 4th in the region recently.

I am Thankful to be a fully employed and happy and proud Dad.

Fish Wish Granted. Thank you Lord. <"><

Keith

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Keith

LA Times Letter to the Editor

My letter to the editor was published in the LA Times today page A 26, Letters, under "Not Enough Fish in the Sea". It is my reply on the MLPA news story describing the "Blue Ribbon" panel's recommendations being not strong enough for the enviros and too strong for the fishermen. So what do we infer from the reporters story... that it could have been worse?

My letter was edited far shorter than my original letter. But most of the point is still there. So I feel for the original writer of the LA Times story who did not have the space to fully describe the results.

I wanted details and results and Maps. None were offered.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/ for my letter online.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fishing-ban for the news story on Nov. 11th.

Hoping we do not get aced out of Point Dume in total. But fearing they are going to take it from us fishing and scuba divers. Will it be look but don't touch only from 2010 and thereafter for years to come?

Went out and Rambled around some... Fishing

Hey there, It was just so good to spend some time on the water.

We went out on Saturday (yesterday) and did a little fishing. We tried a new rock near shore and then some reef areas. Did hook a little hungry calico on light line. Not much happening inshore.

So we moved out to deeper water and got to load up on rock fish at the short banks. They make good fish-taco meat. Gary got the big fish award. Dennis who had good luck inshore was challenged out in the deeper water.

It was the best guy time I have had had since marlin fishing. It turned out I was with the same guys who were my marlin team. We had a really nice relaxing time. All three of us.


Fish Wish Granted. Good day on the water. Not bad on the catching. Even if the water in the bay has turned over and gotten colder.

Keith