Thursday, November 5, 2026
Another action packed day to be sure!
It started with Julien and I taking the grandkids to school followed by a meeting at that end of town with Doug Dagan of Dagan Sales & Marketing.
Julien is always on the lookout for improving the fate of his Villeurbanne Falcons football team. The meeting's agenda was a simple one, discuss the possibilities of purchasing new game jerseys and game pants for our beloved Falcons.
It was a productive meeting.
Afterwards we made a most necessary stop at . . .
. . . Rolling Pin Donuts
It afforded Julien the opportunity to contrast and compare Camarillo's finest donuts with those of L.A.'s famed Randy's Donuts that he tried last Sunday.
We both agreed with Professor Paul Sabolić's well known treatise on the subject, Rolling Pin by a LANDSLIDE!
No, we did NOT eat all of them
We got the word late last night that the installation of our new ceramic floors would start at 9:30 this morning.
Most of these donuts were for the people who worked extremely hard on the project today.
The estimate is that it will take three days to finish the project, the floors that is not the donuts.
They started ripping up the old
linoleum near our mini-Panama Canal
Our 63 year old home, as it turned
out, had three separate layers of
linoleum needing uprooting today
The work was hard and
slow but steady
Fueled by those donuts, we were
now down to the original concrete
slab by day's end
Unfortunately, Julien and I could not stick around to support Laurie as our home was being renovated today.
We were heading to the brand spanking new terminal at the Burbank Airport for our flight to Seattle.
But first, like all first time visitors to California, Julien was itching to try one of the purported best burgers in America.
We stopped at the recently re-opened
In-N-Out in Camarillo for lunch
before heading to Burbank
We each dined on a Double-Double
with Grilled Onions, Animal Style
We shared an order of typically so-so In-N-Out fries but were most satisfied with the burgers that certainly lived up to the hype.
For now.
When we arrived . . .
. . . I was stunned
It was a VAST improvement over the old, quaint terminal to say the least.
Our plane was on-time
We paid a little extra for Premium
Seating, it was worth it for the leg room!
We were picked up at Sea-Tac Airport by our weekend host, Mark Johnson and whisked away to Seattle to join his wife Susie and their delightful daughter Mallory for dinner.
Mark believes that this is the
spot to find Seattle's Best Hamburger
Could it possibly top the In-N-Out Double-Double from earlier in the day?
Julien and I each ordered their Double Bacon Deluxe with Cheese Burger.
The taste test was ON!
By the way, Susie thinks that the title Seattle's Best Burger should belong to the Uneeda Burger restaurant.
Perhaps we will stop there later this weekend and decide for ourselves.
Van de Kamp's was a great bakery
back in the day
Ordering dinner at Red Mill Burgers
WOW!
Actually, Julien shared with all of us.
As for our evaluation, we both voted the Red Mill burger as superior to the In-N-Out version.
Heresy, I know, but it was the simple truth of the matter.
Back at the Johnson Homestead, we settled in after a long day.
At 10:00 a.m. tomorrow we will assemble with David Torrell, the curator of the Husky Sports Hall of Fame to turn over an item that has been in our possession for at least 45 years.
The 1924 Rose Bowl Game Ball
Washington (8-1-1) 14 - Navy (5-1-3) 14
For the full story on this ball's provenance, see tomorrow's blogpost.
What a great time we are having!
