Ramblings and Travels

Your Christmas is Most Like: A Christmas Story Loving, fun, and totally crazy. Don’t shoot your eye out! What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?

It’s the day after the boat parade. Much fun was had by all, except when trying to park cars. Who was there: My cousin Belinda and family, her brother Doug and friends, my parents. Then we have Stella(and a friend of hers, who’s name I forget), Sheila, Michelle, Naeem, Azeem, Alvaro, Tony, Angela (and family), [...]

Quick note. Christmas Boat Parade is still on. I’m hopefully going to be there by 1pm, so show up any time after that! It will be fun, sunny then clear at night. Bring a sweater, and good luck with parking! Even if you show up at 6pm, there will be something, but you’ll spend a [...]

Oh yes, the Dodgers are pissing me off by losing Adrian Beltre to Seattle, and now looking to lose the entire team for prospects. McCourt is turning the LA Dodgers into a AA team. Not that there won’t be heart and spirit, but it won’t be competitive. You’d think a team that has the record [...]

Space News A note to myself….. Read this when I have more free time Like more time to blog, about recent events. Too many late nights at work and scanning photos, not enough pay out Yet

Photos from picking Mistletoe at Crystal Lake in 1993 Matt Huffenback in a tree hunting mistletoe

Photos from the Troop 441 annual pancake breakfast, traditionally held on the first Sunday of each May, at Apollo Park in Downey Fred Davidson, Sheyen Holt-McCoy, and Grace My mom and Mimi Warren. I don’t know who the cub scout is there, it’s too young to be Justin Warren…. Mike and Brian Henritzi Mike always [...]

The one photo I’ve found so far from the Salty Rat Trip, which was a canoe trip we did as a one day event. Me, oh my this is a lot of people: Back left: Ken McCoy, Linda Haverman, Marty Vennis, (?) Sheyen Holt-McCoy, Jason Evans, Bob Warren (with full beard too!), Chris Santiago, Larry [...]

It’s time again to do a big event. This is my attempt at Christmas cheer this year! Newport Beach traditionally has a boat parade the weekend before Christmas. This year, it runs from Thursday the 16th to Sunday the 19th. It usually works its way around to Balboa Island around 6pm to 6:30. What I [...]

In 1992, Boy Scout Troop 441 out of Downey California went to summer camp at Lake Arrowhead, at the facility run by the Los Angeles Area Council. Here are some of the photos… you can make up stories as you go along.