Is It Saturday?

Yes, indeedy, it's Saturday. One day is much like the rest when you're retired! Well, not really, the gardeners come on Fridays ...

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Those aren't red lights, but rather the color from the bouganvilla colors them outside of Mom's garage.

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Lorne took 5 of us to dinner at Spencer's tonight. Thank you! Elaine was in charge of desserts and they were wonderful, including sugar free for me. Thank you both! Oh, yes, and thank you to Robert for making the tea. 

 

Tree in the entryway at Spencer's

 

Tree on the patio where we ate

Above is the patio where we ate. It was about 61 F., but do you see how many heaters there were? I was nice and toasty.

 As you leave the restaurant, they have wrapped some palms in the Palm Springs tradition.

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It's Sunday now -- about 9:30 p.m. and we just got back from the Agua Caliente Casino (same Indians, different casino from The Spa which is in downtown Palm Springs). We drove out Bob Hope Highway and crossed Dinah Shore passing by Gene Autry. (Ask your mother, Sharon, she will know these people.)

I lost my shirt. And then they threw me out -- because me without a shirt is not a pretty sight! Actually, we ate dinner at the buffet and on the way out we saw this:

It's a hotel ginger bread cake. The palm trees are made out of sugar bordered with gum drops. You are looking at balconies that project outward. I'm only in the picture to show you how freakin' big it is! There's some kind of contest about pictures and going online, but I couldn't be bothered to read all of the directions.

Meanwhile, before heading to the casino, we heard the Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus. There are 110 members but only 75 were on stage. They are great singers! And they had a guest harpist, violinist and horn player come on stage for some of the pieces. The did everything from Christma carols to Chanukkah songs and Kwanza songs. The end number was a knock out.

About 20 guys in shorts and Christmas socks that made them look like elves sat in straight backed chairs facing the audience. Then they began a "dance" while seated which began with slapping their thighs but then got really really complicated with waving their hands and doing 'high kicks' . This routine was amazing and we did not see one mistake for about 10 minutes. The rest of the chorus was singing behind them. It was very clever.

Mom was seated next to a chorus member who had not tried out for this show (they do two different ones a year) and he said that one man had knit all of the hats and scarves which all 75 were wearing onstage. Wow. Some scarves were all red, some green, and some gold. The hats were typical round knit hats and matched the scarves.

At one point, the director said, 'We are going to sing a song that actually has a connection to Palm Springs' and he was speaking of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer because apparently Gene Autry sang it. I used to love watching him on TV but I didn't remember his singing that song.

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The Thomas fire is still raging in the Los Angeles area. Thousands of acres have burned and one firefighter lost his life. He leaves a wife and a 3 year old daughter with another child on the way. Even though the drought has technically broken, all of the underbrush under new growth is tinder dry.

They are ascribing these fires to illegal camp fires. It reminds me of finding remnants of a camp fire in the garden behind the Jones Library.