Friday, November 10, 2023

An Necesary Trip to Pasadena


Thursday, November 9, 2023
Today was dedicated to tying up loose ends in preparation for our Mother's upcoming funeral.

The first such loose end was a much deserved Thank You gesture to the staff at The Californian.

Thus I headed to Porto's Bakery in Burbank.

I should mention that Porto's is a
CUBAN bakery, a QUALITY Cuban bakery

Their bread looked AMAZING!

We figured that there were about 30 people working at The Californian during each shift. We were going to at least feed lunch to those 30 people who had shown such kindness to our Mother over the last ten months.

Two yellow Porto's bags containing
30 delicious Meat Pies
30 fantastic Stuffed Potato Balls
30 provocative Ham Croquettes and
30 scrumptious Spinach Empanadas

It was the least that we could do for these wonderful people.

Next, I had to meet my sisters Marilyn and Linda at the local funeral home that would be handling my Mother's service.

I got there a tad early, so I went for a walk.

A Civil War  Soldier looking
over Pasadena's Memorial Park

Preserve the Union at all costs!

Memorial Park's Band Shell

A tribute to those who served
in World War I

All that remains of Pasadena's
original Public Library building
 
Here is all you need to know
about the Library monument

St. Andrew's Catholic Church

A new tile roof for St. Andrew's

Our subsequent meeting went well. We all kept it together again during potentially stressful talks.

News from the EuroBall world . . .

The Varese Skorpions sign a QB
for 2024 with NFL experience

Griffin is out of Chaminade H.S. in Los Angeles, played his college ball at Tulane University and was in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Welcome to Varese!

Our former club in Spain,
the Murcia Cobras, announced
their 2024 schedule today

We've come a long, LONG way

Taco Tuesday related
"Thought of the Day"

These thoughts are never really far from my mind.

1 comment:

Peter said...

There breads looked AMAZING!
Maybe "Their bread"? :-)