Brad Pasely\County Fair

Brad Paisley was awesome.  I went with a friend and we had a really good time.  I was afraid it would be a little difficult because it was as a buffet dinner before the concert but everybody was very helpful and made us feel extremely comfortable.  This was my first event without Brodie.  I was afraid that it would be too hot and too crowded for her so I left her home.

Last Friday Lisa came down and spent the weekend with me.  I had mentioned to Char that I wanted to go to the county fair but had nobody to take me and she told Lisa and she said she would be glad to go with me.  We went on Friday and Saturday and were going to go back on Sunday but it was too hot and we were too tired.  We did eat just about everything in sight, it is one thing that we have in common, we love to eat.

This weekend is going to be fun.  My brother and his wife are going away for their anniversary so I'm going to watch the kids, I'm looking forward to it.  I hope that it's a little bit cooler so I can take them to great America and Bon Fonte Gardens.

Don Henly

The Don Henley concert last night was really great.  A friend and I had dinner first.  The food was great and we had a really beautiful view, it was at the Saratoga Mountain winery.  The ramp to get too where the tables are for eating was really steep and uneven, I crashed into the brick wall.  It was a little bit cold but not too bad.  Next Monday is Brad Paisley, I'm excited about that one also.

Eric Clapton

My brother Dave got here with Aubrey and John Patrick on Friday afternoon, it is always really great to see them.  We went out to dinner with mom and gramps before Dave and I went to the Eric Clapton concert.  The concert was awesome.  The band that played before him was called Robert Randolph and the family band, they were really good.

Saturday we tried once again to fix my new bed so Multimedia Max can control it.  Rosie came over and we called Dan but it still is not working, they think now there is a short in the circuit board.  I have had the bed for several months and my brother and Rosie have been here a couple of times to try to fix it.  Dave made red beans and rice with sausage, corn and garlic bread for dinner, it was really good.

Tomorrow my brother Stanley and his three kids for coming to visit.

 

Two more days to Don Henley...

A Great day

Well, I finally got to go to the garlic Festival in Gilroy and it was everything I ever imagined.  I was so excited when we got to the parking lot that I thought I was going to have an anxiety attack but once we got into the gates I was fine.  We walked through the whole thing and I eat everything I could think of... garlic bread, garlic mushrooms, calamari, shrimp skampi, garlic stir fried chicken, garlic lemon chicken sandwich.  The only thing I didn't try was the garlic ice cream.  I also got four wine glasses with the garlic Festival logo, two tin beer mugs with the Festival logo on one side and the name of a beer on the other side, I think Coors.  I also found a poster with the logo that will look great in my kitchen.  The one for this year just happen to have ivy on it and that is what I have in my kitchen.

Before we left, as I was loading into the van was sliding door on the passenger side broke, it is always something.  Luckily Keith, the guy across the street, was outside and came over and closed the door for us, the cable was broken.

Gilroy garlic festival 2004

Today was a really good day.  I have been stuck in bed for two days so it was nice to get up.  I was getting cabin fever and so was Brodie.

I went to dinner with my grandpa and my mom, Denny's of course.  After that my mom and I went to the movies, we saw I robot with Will Smith.  It was a pretty good movie.  We wanted to see The Notebook but it was already gone from the theaters.

Tomorrow I'm going to the Gilroy garlic Festival.  I have been wanting to go for several years but it's just too hot in Gilroy.  We even made it to the parking lot one day but my wheelchair got stuck two times before we could even get out of the parking area so we decided it would be best to just turn around and go home.  It's supposed to be 87° in Gilroy tomorrow, we will see.

My brothers coming down at the end of this month, on the 30th.  I got as tickets to see Eric Clapton at the HP Pavilion and I'm very excited, I know it will be a killer show.  He is going to stay until August 1 and my older brother's is coming so we will have a nice little get-together.

August is going to be really busy and I'm very excited.  Besides Eric Clapton I also got tickets to see Don Henley, Brad Paisley and Diamond Rio.  The last three concerts are at mountain wineries and there are sitdown dinners before each one, it should be a really good time.

My little brother's visit

My brother came for a visit.  He flew here on Thursday and flew home Saturday night.  We had a really nice visit but unfortunately he was really busy the whole time.  I wanted to get my bed hooked up to multimedia Max and my mom needed a faucet changed in her kitchen sink and her roof was leaking.

We did find a really nice place to eat.  It is called the Elephant Restaurant.  They have killer hors d'oeuvres, great food and really good smoothies.  My brother and I liked it so much we took my mom and Grandpa back the next evening and they also enjoyed it.

He also took me to Fry's electronics to get a GPS because I am really tired of getting lost all of the time.  We found one there and paid for it and left.  When I got outside I heard my brother calling me to stop and I heard people laughing.  Apparently, as we walked by a stuffed animal display Brodie picked up a stuffed elephant that show on the ground and was walking out with it, she is so cute.

We didn't get to bed hooked up because we need to exchange a couple of parts but it will get done.  It was a great weekend.

A visit with friends

A couple of friends came down for the weekend.  An online friend that I have known for six years, Char and a girl that I went to high school with, Lisa.

On Friday we went to Los Gatos and had some killer nachos at Pedro's.  After that we walked around and we came to a pet store.  They had a statue of a dog outside and when Brodie saw it she tried to sniff it's butt I and then turned around so the statue could sniff her butt.

Saturday we went to San Francisco for the day.  The weather was just perfect and we had some great seafood.  I met one of my cribbage buddies that lives there, Brad.  He is very sweet but I think he cheats at online cribbage lol, just kidding.  We had lunch and then walked around for a while.  I guess Brodie had never seen a horse before because when one came by she freaked.  She started lunging at it and barking and growling.  After about three or four came by she settled down.