Last evening we went to Barona for the buffet. We took Hailey and her friend Jennifer and Cody too. The prime rib was so good. I love the buffet but never think I can eat enough to get my money's worth. I didn't have seconds and no dessert either. Cody was good company. The only thing I don't like about the place is having to walk through the smoky casino. Now that all the laws prevent smoking in public places it seems strange to be in a place that lets people smoke. I rather love the no smoking laws. I grew up in a home that was often blue with smoke. My having asthma didn't stop my mom from smoking or anyone that came to visit. She kept the house pin neat and clean so that the dust wouldn't make me sick. Yet everyone smoked.
Hailey's Show Choir class is serving dessert tonight at her school. Saturday they are in the Lakeside Rodeo parade. Back in the late 1930s my mother and three other girls led the parade one year. My father tried bull riding but decided he wasn't cut out for rodeo when he landed with his face in the dirt. As far as I know the rodeo wasn't held during the war and only returned in the late 1940s. We plan to go to the rodeo Saturday afternoon. I haven't been to a rodeo in years.
Lakeside used to have a built in rodeo grounds with white wooden fences and a look of permanence. In the early 1960s the freeway was built through there and then the rodeo was gone for a while. The freeway stops not far after the old location and was never built any longer. Wonder why they couldn't have quit building sooner? Now the rodeo grounds is on leased property from the highschool, and it is mostly pipe corral. It never seems the same to me and it has been over forty years. Elizabeth and I went there to see Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson when they toured as the Highwaymen some years ago. It was a really good show.
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