You have heard of the House that Jack built??? well ... here's the fence that Stuart built

 Look at this!!! Our new fence that Stuart built all by himself. I was in  Los Angeles and came back to this!!!

This is just the begining of the new landscaping look for our parking lot.

Dropped as LOBOC host hotel!!!!

We heard a rumour last week that LOBOC (Long Beach and Orange County) motor cycle club have dropped us as their host hotel after 9 years. No explanation, nobody bothered to call us even though they made the reservation for 2011 when they left this last March. Oh well, such is life.  No doubt we will discover the reason but there are several members not happy about it. There is an individual who has made no bones about preferring the other place. Good luck to them.

Groups who book the hotel for two nights at weekends and think they are doing us a favour are not. They block people who want to come in for a longer time. We actually lose by it.

We are looking forward to our new landscaping staring Monday. I will post before and after pictures. Five Palos Verdes in the parking lot with a collection of cactus. It'll be lovely when they finish; our bank account will not!!!! Oh well .... that's show biz!!!

Same building ....... different flags!!!!

This is Leather Pride weekend and here we are, decked out for the party!!!! We are so pleased we have the balconey to fly our flags from No doubt there is a local ordinance which limits the number of flags that can displayed at one time.

Lovely weeked forecast, mid 80'sF. Eat your heart out, people. Just look at that sky!!!  Visitors from Australia and Germany left this morning. We have guests from Scotland checking in later this afternoon. Don from Toronto and guests from all over the US; AZ, OR, CA, NM, WA. Tonight is the Palm Springs Mr. Leather competion of which we are major sponsors (so we get in free, sort of!). There was a Skip sighting at the Tool Shed parking lot fair last night. We will try to avoid him if he makes an appearance tonight! Maybe I should put a copy of his bill in my pocket!!!

Happy Gay Pride!!!!!!!

All decked out for Gay Pride weekend, mmmmmmm .. must be room for more flags!!!

Looking forward to the weekend although we will miss some of our regulars this year, DJ and Al amongst them. 10 years ago this weekend was our first weekend in the hotel and it was Gay Pride weekend. We were full, not for gay Pride but for a maths convention!! A maths professor from UC Santa Barbara had booked the entire place for himself and students at a bargain rate. Apparently an annual event. Boy, was he pissed off when we told him he couldn't book for the next year!!

10 years ago we had our friend Todd staying with us, and also our friends Bill and Dave. Sadly Todd passed last year and we heard from Dave that Bill died this last week. :(

Also, today in the United Kingdom is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day ... not an offical holiday but one where people light fires and set off fireworks in celebration of the capture of Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. An effigy of him is often burnt on  fires but nowadays  it is often an unpopular politian. Maggie Thatcher was one of the most popular figures burned and long shall it remain so!!! Guy (Guido) Fawkes jumped from the scafolding and broke his neck before the hang man got is hands on him and thus he escaped the painful hanging, drawing and quartering which was so popular in those days. What? No flogging?
Here's a silly little ditty we used to sing in the school playground on November 5th ......
Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,
Put the teachers on the top.
Put the prefects in the middle
And burn the bloody lot!!!!!
(Witty, eh?).