YESTERDAY

Quote of the day: " The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline."--Proverbs 1:7

  Sister Linda is going back to Hawaii on Monday after a two-week vacation in CA. She spent a week with our niece  Michelle, a nurse, and her family in Rancho Mission Viejo. Linda, our youngest I have not seen in years, was with us in Menifee for the last six days and we sort of "bonded" together. Yesterday morning, she, along with us and my wife, went back to RMJ for the last leg of her journey. We rode on Anib's BMW with  my son at the wheels. 
     Michelle and husband Ferdinand and their kids, Balong and Patricia, live in one of the apartments of a building on a rise of land overlooking the surrounding area. It has a parking lot with a shed and Anib manuevered his car in a vacant space. Michelle, in a white T-shirt,

 

was outside and had been giving instructions to Anib on her phone how to reach their place.     It was a more than an hour ride to Michelle's apartment, via the Cleveland mountain forest through the one-way Ortega highway, where we had a glmpse of Elsinore Lake. Earlier, Anib called Michelle and told her we would be having lunch at their place. And so we ate lunch prepared by Ferdinand who is a great cook. We had rice, grilled fish stuffed with sliced ginger and tomatoes, and stripped bamboo shoots mixed with. fried fish, and the Ilokano ensalada of very green an tende rangaw ti kamotig and cubed tomatoes. Eating the Ilokano dishes, we had the feeling of consuming it in the old country of our brth, the Philippines.