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Wonder # 8.  Keeping a Marine 🇺🇸 warm.  

Wonder # 8.  Keeping a Marine 🇺🇸 warm.  

Wonder #8. Keeping a Marine Warm 🇺🇸 Do you have a military member in your family?  When my friend Lorraine invited me to help assemble blankets for Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, I said, “Yes!” We were up and at ’em early on Saturday, heading to Irvine for...

Weekly Wonder #7  — Dining Somewhere New… With Zero Research

Weekly Wonder #7  — Dining Somewhere New… With Zero Research

✨ Happy Anniversary, Les & Charlee! ✨ We spotted the logo — Dine. Drink. Duffy. — and were instantly intrigued. No Googling. No Yelp scrolling. No reviews. Just a bold, delicious leap! Nigel’s in Long Beach, CA Les and Charlee were celebrating their 47th...

Wonder #5: Celebrating Two Classics from 1955

Wonder #5: Celebrating Two Classics from 1955

What’s Wonder-full  about YOUR birth year? When I spotted this photograph on canvas (Eric Renard) featuring the “Bowtie” logo and jet-plane hood ornament of a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, I couldn’t help but smile. I share a birth year with that magnificent machine....

Weekly Wonder #4.

Weekly Wonder #4.

How much fun can we have for $5.00?? Vintage market and Museum.   So Fancy! I picked up Lorraine, and off we went to the Vintage Market at the Kellogg House Museum. Since it was a vintage event, we decided to get dolled-up—hats, dresses, the whole look. The joke...

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