the remaking of a kitchen

on saturday jewlee, emily, akai, zucca, ruby, turkey and of course felicia arrived in california after their long drive from colorado. sarah, siena and i drove to lafayette to see them and jewlee's new home. her new home is gloriously fabuloso and comfy besides. i think it is perfect for her first cali nest. :)
the dogs seemed pretty cool about the whole thing.....zucca and akai were lounging by the pool and ruby and turkey were lurking by the table and lounge chairs. jewlee gave the latter two a bath with soap and the hose....they mostly did ok with that except for ruby getting her flat snoot full of water. too funny. the big dogs took a run down the hill to relieve themselves and z was able to get her fur and tail totally entangled with brush and brambles of some sort. pretty normal. kyra had purchased bones for the 4 of them so they were gnawing away happily and pretty much thought everything was just right.
jewlee and emily seemed to have survived the drive and were chipper and funny. it was great to finally meet e after hearing about her all spring and summer. i really liked her. i haven't met kyra as yet, but hope that will happen next time i get out west. what a treat to have the 4 girls in the fam together around the pool. yay!

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this is fun.....another skype call this time with sarah, jewlee and siena. i could hear siena "talking" and later a bit of squawking, but it was all music to my ears! sarah and jewlee were having fun playing with siena and i almost felt part of it halfway across the country. i know i need to make a plan to return....soon. i am loving being a grandma and she is growing and changing far too many miles away! i even got to talk to her....of course being there is better, but i will take what i can get!!
she is a sweetie and sarah is a great mom and jewlee the best of aunties. :) just so you know, sarah is back and she is sarah again and she is on a roll. hurrah!

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we visited sam and jewlee in their lovely home and i just realized i have NO home pictures, just animals! amazing! it was hard to get everyone smiling at the same time....jewlee and sam seemed to get it, but as you can see the fur people couldn't even face the camera in unison. there is a picture of jewlee holding baby zucca, and another of akai showing how smart she is and shaking hands with jewlee.
it is a beautiful home in a beautiful setting. animals and their humans seem equally content there. well, ruby may not be that content, but she manages. :)

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we are back home after a week + away. it's always good to be home again, but i have to say this was a great trip! we were able to meet up with brother jack along with jewlee and sam for lunch before the senior recognition luncheon for the interior design students. yes, i did eat another lunch there. egads. it was fun to see jack and we ate at lucile's and had fabulous food. everyone enjoyed!
the second lunch was great too. it was good to see jen, and she even received two awards. no surprise that one was the spirit award. to anyone knows her, this would be a given. the other was FABULOUS......she got best of show for her capstone project. pretty darn impressive!!
she gave all of us at her table at private review of her project. she used the old power plant and recreated it as a gallery and artist studios using as much green materials and technology as possible.
that's jewlee's cashmere clad arm holding the light bulb signifying jen's talent for coming up with great ideas.

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