DanLog the ramblings of Daniel Pettit

Drove out to the Poppy Reserve in Lancaster today with mum and sis Robbie. Twas a lovely 2 hour trek out there catching 6 mattresses along the way. My sis even got a mattress photo in route after much trial and error. We were greeted by an enourmous crowd of poppy lovers, you’d think they were handing out opium.

Mom got hit on as usual. Robbie saw Barney.

The trip back was anything but lovely. It took 2.5 hours to get to my brothers place in Downey, which let us with another 45 minutes or so to get home. The bloody 405 was bumper to bumper from the Getty to almost the 105. Finally got a glimp of the MetroRail, um no photo must have been getting tired. Did get 4 more matts on the way back.

All the photos from todays outing.

I found a surprize waiting for me this morning at the restaurant. There had been a fire in the kitchen late Sunday night. It was mostly on the floor to the left of the backups stove. The Vulcan combi oven got toasted pretty good. I pulled off the access panel and one circuit board is melted plus all the connectors to it plus numerous other electrical items. I’d have to say it isn’t going to recover. Other than a timer, some melted aluminum pot covers and a plastic bin nothing else was destroyed. Luckily Steve G. was still in the building and smelled it and called the fire department. If it had happened when the building was empty I’d very likely be spending the next few weeks salvaging from the the debris.