YOUR DAD ...CUTE PHOTO

 This photo reminded me of your Jake.  I think he was about 6 or 7 in this photo.

BUSY, FOCUSED

 

NOT QUITE THE ANGLE BUT CLOSE

 Maybe it just felt good to think I saw the resemblance.

A DAY AT VILLAGE PARK IN CLAREMONT

 I was watching you two and the little boy wanted to talk - wanted to be friends and you were kind of ignoring him.  You looked at him once and turned away.  I assumed you thought you had enough friends like me and Papa who would play with you at the park.

FOUND THIS ON ANOTHER BLOG ARCHIVE

I may not have posted it here.  This was Jake's first carousel ride at Tom's Farms.

YOUR DAD AND UNCLE SAM IN A FRIEND'S JACUZZI

 

WHILE LIVING IN WRIGHTWOOD

 Not sure if these ever got posted on her blog.  We had limited bandwidth or whatever you call it when we had the dish ..satellite - not sure.  Anyway i thought i'd put them up.

LOOKING BACK .........A TRIP TO OLIVE GARDEN IN MONTCLAIR WITH THESE TWO CUTIES

 I can't believe now that I'm in my 70's how much I miss these days in the past - with grandkids and also when my kids were young.  I would go back in a minute to do it all over again with a little more wisdom than I had then.  Also remembering the night we got to hold the babies, you with Jakie and me with Cole.  Damn I miss these times.

MACKENZIE SENT THESE TO ME ON INSTAGRAM

 Since I didn't see them posted anywhere else, i saved them off to put here on her blog for her.

She and her friends look so cute as 70's gogo girls.

I CAME ACROSS THIS PHOTO

 I thought it was sweet.  I believe she was sitting on our front porch with him.

 

INSTAGRAM PHOTOS I SAW TONIGHT

 Mike i know you don't go to instagram so I'm putting them here. 

I JUST SAW THIS AT FACE BOOK - GUESS IT WAS POSTED ON 1/20.

Wow, Jake, good for you and your friends starting this business.  You're going to be an entrepreneur when you get older - you already area.  love the photos so had to post them here.  

FIVE YEARS LATER -

 The house in 2015 - the paint job on the railings still looked good and in five years and all the weathering that went on - it looks pretty bad now.  Also the yard was so green with plants before the drought in 2016 or so - and when we were suppose to not water outside - and so it became barren and then every year the invasive plants come back (dollar plants) and then they die leaving all the white silvery seed pods.  

Anyway back in the day before ferals I could have pots on my railings.  

So now the point of this post is the difference between Mackenzie and Cayden then and now and also a current Jake photo.