What a weekend!!!!

This weekend saw the girls in town for the Dinah Shore so called golf tournament although I doubt if many of them saw a golf course unless they went to Escena for brunch. The main event was held at the Riviera Hotel and it was NOISY. The music started at 9am Saturday and Sunday mornings and went on constantly until 5pm. It was so loud we could hear the announcements from the pool party. I called the hotel twice on Saturday and once on Sunday to complain about the noise .. guess what? Couldn't care less. I called the local police .. guess what? Couldn't care less. At least I found out they had a special permit for music up until 6pm which thankfully someone pulled the plug at 5. I know, I know, it brings in revenue for the city but puleeze people, there is a limit to what we can endure. Next year I'll be at the council meeting to object to the permit ...it won't make any difference but I'll be there. It was so loud I turned our music off!!!! I hope we wern't the only people to complain. I can't imagine what it must've been like staying at the Desert Sun opposite the Riviera!!!!!!!

welcome home, Jim

Hi there Jim,

We hope everything went smoothly and you will almost be there by now (here, 7.30pm).  We went onto the balconey and waited .. we think this is you although we're not sure. It took off around the time you were due to leave so it might be Sun Country or maybe not.  We miss you and will start planning for next year! I KNOW!!!!! SHUDUP!!!

I KNOW!!!! I KNOW!!!!

Well, what a wonderful week this  turned out to be. Not only did we welcome back Jim from Minneapolis, Don from Toronto, Patrick from New York City, Al & Gary from San Francisco we welcomed for the first time the Neumeisters from P.Town!!!  Not to mention Robert (the first Mr. Sister Leather) Blackmon - now living in Ottawa, Canada with his lovely husband Martin - but visiting for the tennis tournament in Indian Wells .... and we thought he had come to see us - how presumptive of us!!!!! And Greg and Edwin from Vallejo and San Diego respectively
It's just like a big family reunion without the arguments - imagine that!
Tomorrow, Friday,  Pot Luck dinner. That'll be a first. I promise, I promise pictures and a full report.

WOW!!!!

We can't believe it ....... 7 rooms filled tonight and 3 rooms with no car!!!! Looks bad when the other hotel owners do drive byes ...... LOL.

Very , very windy tonight. We are looking forward to the weekend. Jim arrives on Friday and let the parties begin!!!!! Pomegranet Martinis here we go!!

On Your Knees Productions!

If you were to receive an envelope in the mail with a return address of 'On Your Knees Productions', what's the first thing you think of?? Maybe a porn shoot,  wanting to use the hotel? That's what we thought. WRONG!!!

It turned out to be a diatribe against all us sinners and fornicators, gays, lesbians, all non believers (Muslims, Hindus, Buddists, Mormans etc etc etc). Quite a good description of how we will be burning is hell but never dying and the maggots will eat our flesh. You get the picture!!! The envelope was addressed to the General Manager, scribbled out and replaced by 'Owners' so whoever it was had obviously been onto our website. Anyway, how we laughed.

Weather here, wish you were lovely!!!!

OK, it's an old joke, I know, but we are having a great spell of warm weather, probably 82f today. Looking forward to a full and busy weekend, starting today welcoming back some old friends and meeting new ones.

We are having the trees trimmed today between us and next door. Hopefully it will give us a bit of our mountain view back. I've taken the 'before' picture, I need to take the 'after' before I post.

Oh, I know I've said this before but, even though the gate might be open (like today because we have the tree trimmers in), please don't just walk in. Call from the gate first.

Mike & John

Our friends, Mike and John threw a very enjoyable 20th anniversary bash at their spacious Palm Springs estate last Friday night which we were lucky enough to be able to attend.  Copious quantities of cake and wine were consumed (rightly so). Some faces we recognised but couldn't put names to them, sorry guys if we appeared a bit blank!! Amongst the happy throng were spotted Don Thompson and Henry Jordan .. always a pleasure. Don was the very first San Francisco Leather Daddy - we hob-nob with only the best!! John entertained us with his organ (!) and a lively sing-along of Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang!!! Unfortunately we didn't get around to a rousing chourus of our favorite "Who put their overalls in Mrs Murphy's chowder!".

Thanks again, Mike and John. See, we are able to get out occasionally!!!