When Blogger gives you lemons, use Google Photos!

The sunset the other evening - 

overlooking the Sacramento River on the Sundial Bridge. 

I had forgotten about using Google Photos for my blog photos.  

Duh! All the photos I take with my iPhone automatically go to Google Photos, and so far, so good. 

The other evening, Foodie called to inform me that he had carpenter ants at his complex—more like a full-out infestation! He rents a studio apartment next to the laundry room. As soon as he noticed the ants, he contacted the property management team, who scheduled an exterminator to visit his place between 2 and 4 p.m.

It's a matter of time before they seek new places to destroy. 

Today's A-Z post is  Senseless Deaths.

When researching my ancestors, I feel like I'm uncovering a mystery waiting to be told, and it's up to me to discover it.

A-Z Sign ups

I have received two summons for Jury Duty with different names - one says Debra and the other says Debby. Each summons has a different badge number. I will have to contact them and clarify which name and badge number to use. 

I had a plan in mind in case I couldn't upload any photos on my blog. I was going to use the photos from my previous blogs and write about them. Now that I can upload photos, I am still thinking of using the old photos and writing about them once a week or so. I am always looking for new blog ideas. However, it takes about a day for the photos to upload from my phone to Google Photos.

This photo of Navy is at the San Jose International Airport. He was leaving for Navy Bootcamp at Great Lakes, Illinois. 

 This was in February 2004. He was 19. 

They gave him one phone call when he got there - we get a call around midnight - short and sweet. Of course, being a Mom, I want all the details and that wasn't going to happen. That's when I knew, it's 100% out of my control. The US Navy owned him. 

My husband thought the whole thing was funny. He'd been there - and done all that. I still have his letters he wrote to me - apparently he did something that they didn't like and made him do a ridiculous amount of push ups. 

Again, my husband got a kick out of it. 

Navy never regretted signing up. Those were some of his best years and if anything, he regrets not staying in longer and zeroing in on that pension after 20 years. He would have been young enough (39) to have another career and collect a sizeable pension. 

Here we are in April at his Navy graduation. 

He was sent to Naval Aviation School in Pensacola, Florida, where he received training to work on the flight deck. During his training, he was prepared for all possible scenarios that might occur on a flight deck. After a few months of training, he was granted leave and returned home for around ten days before being assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt stationed at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. Within six months, he was deployed to the Persian Gulf for the first time.

I noticed a significant change in him when he returned home; he had matured and him and my husband grew closer. 

Yours truly, 

Debby or Debra