View From the Top

It was a beautiful day to ride the 65 foot Ferris wheel installed on the Old Sacramento Waterfront for the holiday season. 

Meanwhile on 3rd Street..good times!

By the tracks in old Broderick: La Crosta’s signage is up and this little neighborhood was jumping today with guitar sounds coming from Stone Music, Edible Pedal selling bikes, Ray Mata clipping and shaving, and the best peach ice cream in town being eaten by my girls at Devil May Care..hot summer in our little City.

Build a Playground in One Day? Yes we can!!

Thanks to generous grant from KaBOOM!! and Disney, YCCA, the City of West Sacramento, Northern California Construction Training, Inc. and over 400 community volunteers teamed up to build a new playground at Bryte Park in West Sacramento yesterday. Many thanks to Raley's Market for donating breakfast and lunch for the workers. The playground will be ready for public use on June 5, 2015.Thank you Connie Leak for sharing her great collage of her snaps of the day. For more see http://www.cityilights.org/2015/04/02/disney-brings-kaboom-playground-to-west-sacramento/   KCRA news coverage here.  #playmatters  #800hands

2013 San Pedro Festa Coming Soon

Capitol Bowl Remodel Update

Capitol Bowl's exterior is undergoing a nice face lift.  We stopped by last weekend to see how great our little home town bowling alley is progressing and the place was jumping with activity.  It is such a great place to take your family for entertainment and dining.

Good Eats at the River Cats Game

Be sure and try the Homemade chips and Onion Dip at Raley Field! Yummy and delicious the kids went back for more!

The Annular Solar Eclipse of May 20

My grandchildren really enjoyed viewing the first solar eclipse of 2012 today. Christy fashioned the viewing devices for them out of mailing tubes. And of course our family always enjoys special music all occasions and today we started with Ring of Fire and Total Eclipse of the Heart!
The first solar eclipse of 2012 occurs at the Moon's descending node in central Taurus.

Two solar and two lunar eclipses will occur in 2012..
2012 May 20: Annular Solar Eclipse
2012 Jun 04: Partial Lunar Eclipse
2012 Nov 13: Total Solar Eclipse
2012 Nov 28: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta at Holy Cross Church

Many thanks to Robert Peffer for sharing these wonderful photos of the Folklorico Dancers performing at the Cinco de Mayo Fiesta last weekend at Holy Cross Church in West Sacramento. There was delicious food (comidas deliciosas) tamales, tacos, postres and dulces Mexicanos (Mexican candies), games, a Mariachi band and LIVE music at this annual celebration.

"Cinema at Sundown" presents A Dive-In Movie

Friday Night Fun for kids of all ages at the West Sacramento Rec Center. Movie starts at sundown this evening and is free to all Rec Center Pass Holders. For non-pass holders Adults: $5.00/Students $3.50. For more info see www.westsacfun.org

Four Generations of Tooties

Big feet- small feet. My friend Barbara's family posed for this shot.

The Smith Family Vacationing in Puerto Vallarta

The Sacramento branch of the Smith Family (24 total--in the Smith, Johnson, Jourdan, Blessing, Bassett, Bartley families) just returned from a week at Dreams in Puerto Vallarta. We had a wonderful time eating, drinking, swimming with dolphins, zip lining, para-sailing, surfing, snorkeling and sight seeing.

The Frosting on the Cake!

Jack's job was to frost the cake last weekend...and as you can see, he takes his job very seriously!

Party Fun at the Bounce Spot

Jack's 7th Birthday Party was at the Bounce Spot last week. The kids bounced themselves into exhaustion for about an hour then had pizza and cupcakes in the party room. We had kids in our group ranging from 5 months to 60 years old and we all had a great time.

The Syncopating Sea Monkeys

The River City High School Jazz Band, "The Syncopating Sea Monkeys", performed at the Family Mardi Gras Party at the West Sacramento Moose Lodge on Saturday. They were fantastic!

The Harley-Davidson VRSC (V-Rod)

My brother and his sons pose in the Harley-Davidson showroom beside their new Harley V-Rod.


Trivia: The V-Rod, is a bike that will become yet another milestone in Harley's history- created by Harley-Davidson's Powertrain Engineering team and Porsche Engineering in Stuttgart.

Hot August Nights in West Sacramento

Members of the Thunderbolts Capitol Auto Club brought their classic cars out to display at the Hot August Nights Family BBQ at the Moose Lodge in West Sacramento last weekend. ~ Barbara




Trivia: The July 2006 issue of Street Rodder magazine salutes the THUNDERBOLTS as the "Oldest continously meeting Hot Rod club in the Nation".

New Disney Theme Rides at Raley's

Maya enjoyed the Mickey Mouse ride until we added money and it moved! These Disney-themed rides cost 50 cents and are in front of Raley's Grocery Store. ~ Debbie

A Hannah Montana Birthday Cake

Our grandaughter Kylie loves Hannah Montana so Debbie got this great cake from Raley's Bakery for her 7th Birthday party.

Wii by Nintendo

This is a photo of my Wii "Mii"(my customized character) finishing a game of bowling. It is just a great game for the whole family...Tom gets a little frustrated when the little boys beat him in bowling and golf though. He lines up and allows for his curve and then get's a 9 count, and the boys just fling the controller willy-nilly and get a strike! We now have the Wii Fit and are working out on it regularly and having fun! ~Barbara

Today is the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games August 8-24, 2008.

Remembering the Watermelon Bust

This watermelon truck parked in the grocery store parking lot brought back memories of when I was a kid and the farmers would drive into town with a load of watermelons on their big truck and park at the end of our block and sell them for $1.00 each. My dad would buy several then all the neighbors would get together and have a watermelon "bust". Simply, Dad would drop the melon from several feet off the ground and it would burst open and then we would tear off pieces and eat till we were so full, then everyone would lie down on the grass and look up at the sky and ask the eternal question...."if we swallow the watermelon seeds, would they sprout in our stomach"...of course that was before the genetic development of the seedless watermelon...
~ Barbara