Thursday night Wendy and Michel arrived on a direct flight from Paris to stay at a hotel near LAX. Yesterday morning they had breakfast with Trevor, saw the Manhattan Beach house all spiffed up and ready for a tenant. They rented a car, left early to make a 2:00 pm appointment in San Diego. Trevor drove down separately. He stopped here and we picked up Andrew Mack at his house. At 4:00 we heard Wendy and Michel give a joint lecture to about 50 people in one of the fascinating rooms at UCSD's Atkinson Hall. Wendy and Michel had work related obligations after that for dinner, so Trevor and Mack and I had a Korean BBQ meal near where he ives, where you cook wonderful things right on a hot ring at your table.
We took Mack home, unloaded some more 'junk' for him to store, and Trevor had a good tour of the house and all its wonders. The view from the back yard is spectacular! Mack has installed some nice bright lighting throughout the house, something I need here. Since San Onofrey went down the cost of electricity in this area has skyrocketed, and until recently fast, bright light has been impossible. (Cheaper LEDs have made this much better, thank goodness.)
Trev and I drove back to La Costa Glen and watched a Ted Talk or two until we got too sleepy to stay awake. It was a big day for Trev, but he takes it all in stride.
This evening Wendy and Michel will take us all to Fidels, or the next door restaurant called The Jackal (in Spanish) in Solana Beach, which were surrounded by fields when she was a student at UCSD n the '70s. Now they are surrounded by buildings.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday we should all have some time to explore La Costa Glen and surrounds. Wendy and Michel plan to fly back Monday from LAX.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Japan Story
Pastimes and Games
How did a solitary kid amuse herself when there was no TV, computers or iPhones?
I had dolls of course. There was a Nora Welling doll that I adored. She had a beautiful face, sculpted from felt with painted features.Her long velveteen dress was pink, with a bonnet to match. (In the doll collection is a similar doll that I got through eBay recently, in miniature. When I unpack the doll collection I will photograph it for the record.)
I had as mentioned before, Setseko-San, the traditionally dressed Japanese doll. Also a Raggedy Ann doll, very popular in those days. Has anyone heard of a Golliwog? I had one of those too. And Sammy Samuels the ventriloquist's puppet, though I could not make him talk as well as my father could.
I remember playing "Tiddly Winks" and "Snakes and Ladders", which is still popular. Do you know how to play "Tiddly Winks?" You have some colored plastic disks which you try to flip into a cup using another disk It requires great skill. The one who gets most in the cup wins.
"Hide the Thimble" was another favorite. After dinner we would play it in the living room. Someone would hide a thimble in plain sight, but hard to find in its surroundings. The others would search around the room, with the person who hid the thimble calling out,
"You're getting warmer (or colder)", as the seekers came nearer or further away from the thimble. The one who found it got to be the new "hider".
Then there was the memory game, from Rudyard Kipling, I believe. My father would arrange about twelve items on a tray, a pair of scissors, a match, a pencil - other small familiar objects. I was required to study the objects for about a minute, then a cloth was flung over them. The task was to recall as many objects as possible.
I do not remember a musical instrument of any kind. We had no piano, although my father was an accomplished pianist. He was trained as a violinist and played professionally. He had also taken a percussion class at one time with the rhythms set to words. He would tap out, "Iddy, umpty, iddy, umpty" or " Go-to-bed-Tom, go-to-bed--Tom, Father and Mother and ev-er-ee one."
" Do it AGAIN, Daddy."
Pastimes and Games
How did a solitary kid amuse herself when there was no TV, computers or iPhones?
I had dolls of course. There was a Nora Welling doll that I adored. She had a beautiful face, sculpted from felt with painted features.Her long velveteen dress was pink, with a bonnet to match. (In the doll collection is a similar doll that I got through eBay recently, in miniature. When I unpack the doll collection I will photograph it for the record.)
I had as mentioned before, Setseko-San, the traditionally dressed Japanese doll. Also a Raggedy Ann doll, very popular in those days. Has anyone heard of a Golliwog? I had one of those too. And Sammy Samuels the ventriloquist's puppet, though I could not make him talk as well as my father could.
I remember playing "Tiddly Winks" and "Snakes and Ladders", which is still popular. Do you know how to play "Tiddly Winks?" You have some colored plastic disks which you try to flip into a cup using another disk It requires great skill. The one who gets most in the cup wins.
"Hide the Thimble" was another favorite. After dinner we would play it in the living room. Someone would hide a thimble in plain sight, but hard to find in its surroundings. The others would search around the room, with the person who hid the thimble calling out,
"You're getting warmer (or colder)", as the seekers came nearer or further away from the thimble. The one who found it got to be the new "hider".
Then there was the memory game, from Rudyard Kipling, I believe. My father would arrange about twelve items on a tray, a pair of scissors, a match, a pencil - other small familiar objects. I was required to study the objects for about a minute, then a cloth was flung over them. The task was to recall as many objects as possible.
I do not remember a musical instrument of any kind. We had no piano, although my father was an accomplished pianist. He was trained as a violinist and played professionally. He had also taken a percussion class at one time with the rhythms set to words. He would tap out, "Iddy, umpty, iddy, umpty" or " Go-to-bed-Tom, go-to-bed--Tom, Father and Mother and ev-er-ee one."
" Do it AGAIN, Daddy."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)