deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

As fantastic as The Getty Center is, travel down to Pacific Palisades, by the Santa Monica Pier, to experience The Getty Villa. Mr. Getty collected world famous artifacts in a faux Greek Villa and, admission is free. We have been there only once, we will be back.

As bad as the traffic is to get there, Los Angeles has wonderful places to visit. We are amazed how many of these places are free. A favorite experience for us is the Getty Center.

We have made a good effort to take advantage of living in ‘SoCal’. When friends or family come to see us one of the adventures we enjoy taking folks on is Whale Watching. We have had great fortune using Davey’s Locker out of Newport. That red stuff floating on the surface? Whale poop.

Entry 22 By the middle of August Mom returned to her place in Flanders Music.  Musical instruments started to be delivered which was a healthy thing for the bottom line.  Dad and I could relax and turn our attention to what kept the store an interesting lifestyle for us. During the middle 60s the record…

Even as a boomer back in the 60s, my Mum taught me that ‘a good musician is a good musician’. I never forgot that. There were extremely few finer musicians than Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

One essential thing I learned from my Mom was that if someone is a good musician they are worthy of a listen. Our good friend Marilyn Graham recently introduced me to Gregory Porter. I’ve been listening to him often lately. Some ‘throw-back’ elements but new stuff that is genuine and honest.

Bonnie sent me this 56 year old photo on the day when we remember the passing of our Dad. Beyond the strange feeling of being without a Dad for 41 years, you realize that the entire back row in this family shot are no longer here. The only ones left are the little girl, the…

Just because I felt like it.

This is the time of year up here in the mountains when the sap is running in our pine trees. California has more varieties of pines than any other state. One method of identifying a species is to count the number of needles coming out of a branch. If it is a clump you count…

We traveled from Big Bear to Beverly Hills to listen to Craig Jonson talk about his new book and how he came up with Walt Longmire. In addition to Craig, most of the actors from the Longmire TV show were present to talk about what it meant to be a Longmire family member. We took…