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January 1, 1998	Fugedabadit! ...Forget About it

	Santa Cruz Home Owners A few months after we got back from the Philippines, Isa decided to move back to Santa Cruz. In April we determined that it would be a wise idea to buy a home in the mountains there. Isa would live in it and manage the household. With real estate prices skyrocketing in Silicon Valley only about 30 miles north, we felt it would not only make a good home for Isa, but also a good investment. In fact, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have slowly been making their homes in Boulder Creek, the next town to Ben Lomond. Ben Lomond is a quiet wooded mountain town with a creek running through it. It has one grocery store, a hardware store, a couple of bars and antique dealers. We bought a home in El Solyo Ave. It is an incline road which dead ends and has no more than five houses on either side. These mountains could be pretty shaded with different pine trees, but El Solyo Ave. .is nice and bright. 200 El Solyo Ave. has several pines and a beautiful view of the ridge. The house is a simple wooden home with two full bedrooms, two full baths a large kitchen and dining area, a living room with a fireplace, a screened porch and a large deck. Downstairs there is a large living area with a small bedroom. It sits on a third of an acre. We have already made a lot of improvements to it. Isa and her cats are very happy there. She currently shares the house with two other roommates. We are carefully monitoring El Nino since the Santa Cruz Mountains typically gets a lot of precipitation. So far so good!	We have all turned into amateur drainage engineers in anticipation of El Nino’s supposedly heavy rain. It is hard to believe, but this mountain is made of sand! It was the bottom of the ocean at one time. Isa’s new address is 200 El Solyo Ave. , Ben Lomond, CA 95005 The Big Five-O As you may or may not know, I turned fifty last August. 20 or so of my best women friends and family converged at a beautiful house in the North Shores of Lake Tahoe overlooking the water. The weather was equally as gorgeous, I couldn’t have imagined a better scenery! We talked, we laughed, we drank, we ate, we danced, we swam, we sang, we gambled, we just about did every fun thing you could think of. The main event on Saturday was held poolside. We were having a blast dancing to 70’s disco music when an irate male resident from nearby came with hands on hip admonishing us for being loud and rowdy. "This is a family place, you know", he said. Imagine a bunch of mostly middle-aged mature women behaving like that? Can’t wait to see what the 60 bash will be like! You’re invited.
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