May 10-17(or so)
written May 12+
These diaries have evolved (temporarily) into weekly summaries. I'm not sure one week is any more special than any other lately, but at I think we will appreciate the record, sooner or later.
House progress -- this may be an entry every week!
Saturday (10th), stucco and purple doors get painted. Ladder work still scares me!     |
Some of our Cambridge Avenue crowd Fresno Polynesian Society - Great Show         Dinner and the desert auction kept the party going as the sun - and temperature - went down.   |
Sunday was Mother's Day and, after an IHOP breakfast, Marianne, Mamo, and I drove down to Gabby's to hang with the kids.
 The Mother's Day cake was in Mamo's favorite European style. Sam had a special early birthday, courtesy of his great grandmother.     Hanging around.      Pretty soon the pool may even have water. We will check in a couple of weeks, when we are back for baby-sitting duty.  We stayed around most of Monday too, to help Gabby be a modern mom: photo shoot at school; manage construction workers - plaster/paint, pool fence, back fence, landscape - ; entertain kids at the same time. We don't know how she does it.   
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The
house itself was essentially done. I just hoped we could get some windows
to open. (we did.) The screens and shutters were primed and ready, but there
are over three dozen of them. Work remained.    |
The last days on the paint job were hectic - and warm, over 100F. But Benny and his crew succeeded.   |
And here it is!!!   |
John and Marianne