A Month Is Not That Long

Well, it might not seem that long, but I really haven't felt like blogging.  Now I have to howl at the moon because I have lost a month's worth of pictures when I lost my camera on Saturday.  Thank God I had the rest of them in my hold-it-in-your-hands foto album.  As you know, I haven't mastered the art of computerizing my fotos so when I lost my camera it was bye-bye memory stick.

The up side is that I did have a wonderful weekend.  GTG came up on Friday night and he and I did a FUN happy hour at Don Cuco's in Moorpark.  On Sat. WLT, GTG and I worked like slaves in the yard...have to have it ready for all the company we are having this summer!!  Now why can't I just do it because I love to see all the color around me???

Late Sat. evening GTG and I drove the entire final stage of the Amgen Tour of California which is now the most elite bicycle race in America.  I was amazed to see parts of the back roads that I had never been on before.  Because GTG used to ride, I had seen a lot of it....nervous mother who would drive over the mountain passes to make sure that he was ok on that ride to and from Bev. Hills to T.O.  It really is just a suicide run on parts of the passes.  There were a couple places that I just had to stop and take pictures and I guess at the last foto op... a ranch where they had a zebra AND a camel grazing on the property...I must have dropped the camera while I was getting back in the car.

I didn't even realize it was gone until the next day when we went to The Oaks Mall for the start of the race.  We found spots right exactly on the starting line and I was soooo excited about what fotos I would get.  Duh...no camera.  We still had a memorable day and enjoyed every minute of it.  However...when I came home and still couldn't find my camera in the car or anywhere in the house, that was a different matter.

GTG was such a good sport that he drove me to the leg of the race where Decker Canyon turns into Westlake Blvd. so that after the race we could drive up to the spot and look for my camera.  That is when we learned from the police that the road would be closed until 6:00 AM on Mon. ... and that every bicyclist and hiker in half the country had hiked or ridden up before 6:00 AM Sun.  They said that there wasn't a spare inch of roadside to stand on.

Sooo...now I've learned my lesson and I will get a new camera this weekend and learn how to use it perfectly AND learn how to do every computer trick there is.  Well...maybe not everything but I am going to sign up for a class and I'm really going to try not to be such a schlump.  I PROMISE.