We're in California

We are finally out in Carlsbad.  We were going to fly out on June 10th but a couple things came up that made us cancel our reservations.  
     Val had been having trouble with one eye with itching, redness and oozing.  She had been on antibiotic eye drops and orally and on steroid eye drops with no improvement.  So her ophthalmologist referred her to a super-specialist who saw her on June 11.  He diagnosed a blocked and infected tear duct that needed surgery.  Fortunately he was able to squeeze her into his schedule the next day.  The procedure was done in the office and took only about 15 minutes.  He cleaned out the tear duct, removed some impacted pus and bacteria and put her on some more eye drops.  She is now much better. 
     I also had a problem that delayed our travel.  While we were in New Jersey at the beginning of June, I lost a crown from a tooth.  I had no idea that it was loose and was eating some cereal at breakfast when I felt something hard in my mouth.  I fished out the crown and I initially thought it had come from the cereal--gross.  But with some inspection, I realized that it was my tooth!  Fortunately I didn't swallow it.  I brought it home and made an appointment with the dentist who re-cemented the crown and now it seems as good as new. 
    With all these things going on, we decided to drive out instead of making more air reservations and so we left on Saturday and arrived in Carlsbad on Monday.  So we have been here about a week and are busy cleaning and replanting.
     Val's girls and their children are going to be visiting us over July 4.  We are going to be crowded, but we have some blowup mattresses and the grandchildren will be sleeping on the floor or couches.  They have never been to Southern CA so it should be fun.