shosho from los angeles

Thank you for your encouragement and help. I will try some new things this weekend. I will let you know what happens.

Hola Sharon! Gracias! You are very kind and sweet. I never met my Maternal Grandfather (a Castillian), he died when I was six months old, so my Paternal Grandfather was my idol, confidant and someone I could 'argue' over my visions of the future. I miss him dearly. The last time I saw him was the first time I ever saw him cry...we left Cuba and I never saw him again.

Cubana by birth.
Spaniard by DNA. A
American by choice.



n a l are my initials

Clifton Scones

Is this from Clifton's Cafeteria?

I don't know if it even still in Los Angeles. When I was a little girl, it was a special treat to go to Cliftons in downtown LA. This was in the day of the Red Car - long ago.

Sharon, thanks for stoping by and leaving some treats. I run a pretty wide open bar and grill out of my page. Everybody is welcome to help themselves to whatever there is. I just recently discovered a nearby winery making elderberry wine, so I'll leave a bottle of that and a jar of sand plum preserves

What part of Ks. did your friend Mary move to?

That is interesting. Is Cliftons still a Cafeteria and operating as such?

thanks for your birthday wishes Sharon/Shosho!! Did you have a listen to my birthday youtube? Quite funny!

Shosho,
Nice new name. Have a great day!

Yes, the sh shound is sho entrancing.

Shosho/Sharon
thank you for the lovely birthday wishes for my 50th birthday celebrations. I have great memories to keep.
receiving messages from all around the world is very humbling. I love to send the messages to others, but receiving them is something very
special.
we share a lot here on site and I love the feeling of the huge 'sudoku worldwide family'.
cheers
water of course

Dear SHOSHO From Los Angles I am very glad to thank your best wishes for a safe flying,Sure it was and I live now in my Son's home in Corona ,an hour driving from San Dego .
SHOSHO hope that every thing running Ok.
Keep in touch that will pleased me too much.
Have a nice time.

Hi Sharon. Just stopping in to say hello, but should I say Sharon or Shoshho? Hope all is well out there in la la land. Any plans for summer travel? Will you get a chance to meet Wagdy? Cheers my friend!

hi shosho great stuff thanxs for everything .

We really appreciate the life boat. It's tied up at the front porch and we have it well stocked with pretzels and beer all ready to go. It's a little after 10:00 the third morning, rained thru most of the night and there is still water dripping off the eaves. Never seen anything like it.

Hello Sharon ,thank you for your wishes , it is quieter now in Beirut but still the fights in the north .

Hi, Shosho:
I remember ordering from the takeout window at Mago's. We only ate at the indoor restaurant once--will have to look for it again the next time we're in the Westside!

Hubby & I graduated from UCLA in 1978, so we're no babes in the woods! Did you meet your sweetheart while you were in school?

Hello Sharon , were you talking about the baby in the picture??

Shosho, Thank you for the kind words re my temperament. You need not follow anyone, however....lead on girlfriend...you do pretty well in the 'quieting of malcontents'....its a teacher's characteristic that just comes out when the class becomes unruly.....LOL
Love your picture...a real handsome guy in your arms too. I could look deeply into those eyes for awhile too.

Shosho, I'm dropping by to say I enjoyed your story of the cracked and perfect pot... being one of the cracked ones myself, perhaps i water a few flowers.

What a lovely picture!

Hi Sosho and thaks for the gifts. I'll hvae to pass on the wine becasue of my vows, but my children will enjoy it! I've just got back from a conference of Australian sangha of different Buddhist traditions but none of them chased away evil spirits at unearthly hours. I come from a long tradition of presbyterian ministers who are all turning in their graves. If Scotland has an earthquake, that will be why. Here's an Aussie pavolva with passionfruit topping for dessert.

Sharon, thank you so much! - The pain is unbearable at times and then I feel his presence and warmth. Is as if his spirit was watching over me.

Hi Shosho. Thank you for the gifts - white wine and chocolate is a favourite combination of mine. I am leaving you a bottle of maple syrup for your next pancake breakfast - does that give a hint as to where Mississauga is? It's a suburb of Toronto, Canada (I thought that, if the Aussies could use place-names I've never heard of, I would do the same). I like the same part of the otter video as you - can't help but go 'awwwwwww' every time I see it. Apparently one of the otters was rescued from the oil spill left by the Exxon Valdez.

Sharon, it was great to catch up in chat with you today. If you would like to leave me a note on my page as to what type of picture you would like for an avatar, I will be happy to try and find something for you.
Have a great day, and looking forward to catching up again.

Hi Shosho/Sharon, Thank you very much for the birthday wishes, I had a very nice day. Went to my favorite Mexican resturant, even had dessert 'flan' yum, yum.

what do you think of this one to start you off?

so glad you approve, you can just copy it from here and save it, and then submit to Gath

Sharon, you asked for a resizing programme that works on a Mac. I have an iMac and I use the following programme

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

It seems to work pretty well. Good luck - and let me know if you have any troubles.

Thanks for the heads-up on my page Sharon. I really enjoyrd the song. Seems like a lot of us will be there soon (NOT I HOPE). Cheers!

Shosho, Loved the video, seems as if I may have heard something similar....but I can't remember...LOL

Meant to tell you that you are doing a good job...love the avatar and agree with you about Angie being both helpful and generous! Many of us have been the recipients of that kind generosity!

Sharon, it's a pleasure. If you have any more 'Mac' problems just let me know. I can't promise to be able to solve them but I do promise to try.

Shosho I appreciate your help. Do you know anything about the flickr website. It's flickr that is giving me the hard time. Thank you for the wonderful gifts. Please come by and visit again any time.

SHOSHO, your generosity is greatly appreciated....if I can help...just call me!

Thank you so much for your lovely words and gifts. It really wasn't necessary, I enjoyed helping you out. If you need anything else please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks for the warning Shosho, I'm just heading out to cook on the grill so I'll save those yummy chocolates for when I'm safely away from the flames. The wine, I'll take that with me just in case I need to douse the flames.

Hi Shosho, it's fortune/karma/god but I've been thinking about you so much since I last 'spoke' to you, only putting it off till I had something concrete to tell you! You've jumped the gun so here it is. My brother-in-law got out of going to Iraq! Good news yes & no. He has an upper abdominal mass which the medicos have been trying to diagnose for the last month! Anyway it's probably (hopefully) a lymphoma. He's had needle biopsies collapsed lung biopsy (through the back) & abdominal surgery (they didn't want to do this (which is why they went through his lung) because it would delay treatment - have to wait till the abdo had healed before the could start chemo or radiotherapy! Nothing conclusive found! Except it is lymphoma but there was some necrosis in the last biopsy which means it might be turning into a nasty one. They have to wait till his abdomen is healed before they start treatment so yesterday he had a PET scan & a bone marrow biopsy, which will hopefully tell them if it's gone nasty or not, so when they can zap him with chemo &/or radiotherapy they'll know what they're dealing with. The worst senario would have been if it were a benign mass (non cancerous) because it's up near the heart & is already compressing the vena cava (major blood vessel) & is inoperable!

So thank you for dropping to my page by accident. You may never visit me again after all that!! Sorry, but thanks for coming!

Hi, Shosho! Thank you for visiting my page the other day! I love California wines. I've been to the Napa and Sonoma Valleys many times for tours and wine tastings. My favorite winery is Montelena. Love their cabernet!

Cheers!
Jane