Dog Beach dedication, Michael Buble & fostering a new dog

Saturday Dec. 11, 2010

The day started out with a walk to dog beach for the official changing of the name from Dog Beach to Rosie's Beach.

There was quite a turnout at Dog Beach. Mark Sandoval, the Director of Marine Services, spoke about all of the work Justin Rudd did in order to create Dog Beach years ago and that the city of Long Beach was behind the change to Rosie's Beach to honor Justin's dog.

Justin read a proclamation from Congresswoman Bonnie Loenthal and then the sign was revealed. WOW it looked great!!!

Ruth and Bebe, wearing their Christmas outfits, stand in front of the tribute to Rosie the Bulldog.

We later got dressed to go see Michael Buble. He was playing at the Honda Center in Anaheim. We decided to go to dinner near the venue and went to the Prime Cut Cafe.

Here Ruth is giving me a Birthday Toast. I guess your only 70 once so we are going to stretch it out as long as we can. Next stop.....Michael.

If you are just being introduced to Michael you can check out some of his hits by dragging this into your web browser and scroll down to a song you know:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+buble&aq=2
If you want to get a sense of what his concert was like watch his rendition of "Fever"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiMAh2cLczY
or watch his perform "Save The Last Dance For Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmi3EPUrw6g
But unfortunately you can't get the real feeling of what a real superstar is unless you see him in person because it's about the feeling you get when he interacts with the audience. It is also impossible to describe the feeling of sound and visual other that say "It's over the top."

Sunday Dec. 12, 2010

Today we were going to go to the Farmers Market and get a Christmas tree...
BUT NO!! Ruth dropped by the pet rescue place to drop off some clothes that Bebe had out grown when she called me over to see what I thought of getting another dog. Instead of adopting the dog outright they let us take him home to try him on. The called it "Fostering the dog." I called it "No way can I say no when there are five women saying YES."

We called him "Harley" because "Bebe and Harley" sounded pretty good together.

Naturally Ruth had some Harley clothes to put on him, then we took them for a walk.

Here's a shot of Harley wearing real Harley Davidson clothes.

At about 6 o;clock, a little after dinner, I decided to shoot the afterglow of the sunset. Much to my surprise there was something else going on down the block. A shooting.

It took a little doing but I grabbed this shot of the scene. A man was shot and killed about a half a block from our house. It is actually just two doors east of Al's place. They had it on the news but I was only able to get this radio report of the shooting that took a mans life.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2010/12/12/man-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-long-beach/

After our neighbors filled us in on what we missed we walked over to Alamitos Bay, near Bay Shore and First Street. The evening was spectacular. It was very warm and the reflections of the lights were really great. Unfortunately my camera couldn't capture the moment.

Ruth is standing in front of the house showing the dogs the Christmas decorations. Time to get in and give Harley a bath. I don't know what's in store the next week but I have a feeling we now have two dogs in our family.