The first time my dear friend Ruthie saw my backyard, she named it, "Club Med Long Beach"!I don't get to take many vacations, so I've created my own "getaway" in the backyard of my home.
We've been having summer weather lately, so nice, even if it is a bit HOT! If you look at the pix above, you will see that Riley has her own special chair! She has been taking swim lessons at a swim school for over a year now. It has been really important to me that she becomes water safe!
I kind of just put fun stuff behind the pool that I enjoy looking at. I have those solar powered tiki lights that come on at night and really add to the setting. I have my other mermaid up there as well.
I have a vintage pepsi cooler out here in Club Med. It use to work but it isn't exactly "energy efficient" so I don't keep drinks in it anymore.
These are a couple of my favorite things. The surfboard is actually vintage Hobie surfboard my friends husband made into a bench. The iron pieces with the palm trees are one of my favorite things as well. They came from Florida. Also, if you look at the "Aloha Farmers Market" sign, there is a sweet story behind the sign. A few years after Mr.Wonderful left he took all the kids to Maui. When we were a family, we all use to vacation there. Bryce has got that "collector" bug, big time. He found that sign and made his dad UPS it home to me. That had to cost a bit, but that's my boy, always thinking of his mama!
I step out of my bedroom slider, and I'm in another world. Sally sits in the dirtier looking lounger, and I sit in my comfy rocker!
This is one of the views of the bar Bryce built me several years ago. I need to get some new thatching for the roof this year!
I love this sign. One of my friends use to be part owner in a restaurant here in Old Towne. Her partners owned Cheeseburger in Paradise in Maui. This band was playing at the restaurant here in Old Towne and when they were done, my friend brought me the sign! It hangs on the opposite side of the bar.Also notice the vintage "senasac" street sign. I've had that since I was a kid. It came off the corner when they changed to newer signs. It's the same street and house that Katie, Vinnie, and Riley live in today.
This is where I put the table and chair set I got at Country Roads not to long ago. It's become one of my favorite things as well.
Here's a picture of "Sally the Cabana dog" relaxing in the CA sunshine with me!
And this is the little table next to my chair. On this table are all the things that take me away from our crazy world and help me relax in my own little Club Med LB!!
Before my friend Ruthie moved back to Florida, she had named my backyard, "Club Med Long Beach"! Since I haven't been able to go to Maui for the last few years, you know Maui, my favorite place ever, I spend a lot of time in this little "resort" in back yard! I'm able to step out of the slider from my bedroom, and enter my own little piece of paradise. The chair on the right is my rocking chair, and the lounge on the left is where my dog, "Sally the Cabana Dog" lounges! This past winter though, with the rain and wind, it has REALLY taken on my little private piece of paradise!
The bar needs just a bit of work and some cleaning!
The deck and "cocktail" area look like a hurricane might have stopped in for a visit.
Surfboards were tossed around during this past winter, and the poor umbrella on the left is now only a wire frame! And hey, that was one of my favorite Corona umbrellas!!
On the other side of the pool, I lost a palm tree this year. Not sure why, it just croaked.
When you are in this business of junkin, you decorate everywhere, even behind the pool, which also needs a bit of tidying up.
I'm anticipating after all of the clean up I have waiting for me, I will probably need one of those shots of tequilla. I'll also be looking for a new cabana boy this summer. I was thinking that good lookin' Texas boy Casey, from American Idol, might make some nice eye candy this summer here at my little Club Med Long Beach!
