May 9 - 15

Ok, so this is I hope an interesting music story. I have always loved music and have since I was a teenager. So recently I got this song stuck in my head that I couldn’t remember when and where it came from. I also couldn’t remember the lyrics, so I would whistle it all the time. It seems like it came from the 1940’s but I just couldn’t remember. I have this vision of some woman singing it in a Humphrey Bogart movie. Anyway it was driving me nuts and so I even whistled it to a few customers who remembered it but like me couldn’t remember the name or author. So, I started playing all the songs from the 40’s on Apple Music to no avail. Today I tried the thirties and one artist sounded familiar, Billie Holiday. So I told Siri to play her songs. The fifth song was it, but it didn’t sound at all like what I expected. The song was “Summertime”. I did a little research and realized that this song had been covered at least 47 times. Most recently by Lana Del Rey, and just before that by Sublime. Most of us remember it from a cover in the seventies. It was composed by George Gershwin in 1935 for the opera “Porgy and Bess”. I realize now that I was thinking of the version by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. A little evolution of the song now makes sense. Well that’s all folks.

May 2 - 8

Ok, folks. Thank you for all the responses and thank you for not sending any more. I said I would donate up to 20 different charities and ended up donating $50 to 32. The list is below. Channel 40 came a day late and interviewed this really old guy. He kind of looked like me, but I can’t be that old. Anyway, thanks again for all your support

List of Charities We donated to in the last week:

  • Sharing Gods Bounty

  • ​Sacramento Food Bank

  • Norcal Resist​​​​

  • ​Shriners Hospital

  • Childrens Cancer Center​​​​

  • CASA

  • Second Slavic Baptist Church for Ukraine​

  • WEAVE

  • Welcome Home Housing​​​

  • Doctors Without Borders

  • Assistance League of Sacramento​​

  • Catholic Camp ReCreation

  • Leukemia Lymphoma Society​​​

  • Saint Jude

  • Arbor Day City​​​​

  • ​Pathways to Employment

  • Loaves and Fishes​​​

  • ​St Johns for Real Change

  • Fisher House of Palo Alto​​

  • ​Friends of Sacramento Library

  • Disabled American Vererans​​​

  • Effie Yeaw Nature Center

  • American Lung Association​​

  • ​Great Pyrenees ​Rescue

  • March of Dimes​​​​

  • ​Sunrise Christian Food Ministry

  • Saint Vincent de Paul Carmichael​

  • ​St Johns Evangelist Locust Ave

  • Holy Family Catholic Church​​​

  • Nor Cal Cocker Rescue

  • Albie Aware Breast Cancer Awareness​​

  • SPCA

It took about 10 minutes to do each one, so next time I will pick a name out of a hat.

Apr 25 - May 1

Ok, so before I ever thought we would have a chance to win the best breakfast spot category, I had this idea to ensure a victory. Do you remember how I told you how my kids insisted I was such a bad singer? Well, I was going to go around to every table and sing. I would let everyone know I would continue to sing until they voted for us to be there favorite breakfast diner. Fortunately for all of you, we won anyway. 

Thank you so much. 

We took first place by over a hundred votes. To show my appreciation I am going to donate a $1000 to charity. Please email me with a charity of your choice and the first 10 to 20 charities will get $50 to a $100.

By the way, Chanel 40 is coming in Monday at 8:00 AM to interview us.

Do you think I should sing for them?