November In North Carolina, Part 5
   
 
Thursday, November 19
 
Morning coffee... Sister Jan and Father... The turquoise coffee cup that I use at Thompson Manor is the same cup once favored by my grandfather, Isaac Dellinger...
 
 
Saturday, November 22
 
Meeting with Hiroko-san, Eric the Physicist, and Baby Yuka... at Yum's Chinese Restaurant on Charlotte's South Boulevard...
 
Yumi, Yum's co-owner and Hiroko-san's good friend, holds Baby Yuka...
 
Hiroko's lucky husband and Baby Yuka's proud father, Eric the Physicist...

Yum's co-owner Houng takes a look at Baby Yuka...

Hiroko-san and Baby Yuka...
 
 
Sunday, November 23
 
Lunch with Tom Billotto and Heidi Edidin at Saigon Palace...
 
       
 
 
Monday, November 24
 
Father's new Ibanez guitar...  Shenandoah, with the great Jimmy Stewart and Doug McClure, was on the television as we admired the new instrument...
 
     
 
Jimmy Stewart rolls a Virginia long leaf...
 
 
Tuesday, November 25
 
Brother Brian gave me a detailed tour of his toy hauler...
 
       
 
Brother Brian's most recent jigsaw puzzle working...
 
Meeting with Pete "Pony Boy" Davis at Starbucks, in the Elizabeth neighborhood...
 
 
 
Wednesday, November 26
 
1516 Kenilworth Ave. My mother was living here at the time of her engagement to my father. My grandparent's continued to live there for many years afterwards...
 
 
Meeting with Randy at the Southpark Tinderbox. This is said to be the premier Tinderbox store in the country...
 
www.tinderboxcigars.com
 
       
 
   
 
 
Thursday, November 27
 
Thanksgiving Day at Thompson Manor...
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
 
 
Friday, November 28
 
While helping with father's doctor appointment at Carolina's Medical Center, I noticed this painting of the California coast hanging in the hall...
 
 
The scene is of the rainbow bridge over Bixby Creek, on the Big Sur coast south of Carmel. This is the bridge that Jim Bronson crossed on his motorcycle in the intro footage for "Then Came Bronson" each week. I visited this spot with Chieko back in May of '98...
 
California, May 18-26, 1998
 
www.beachcalifornia.com/bixby.html
 
 
Later in the day, father napped, with Baby Ralip providing comfort...