Bodega Bay chillin'

Thanks to the Gollihur family for allowing us to stay in their Bodega Bay house over Memorial weekend. The weather was crisp and refreshing. We spent Saturday afternoon on the back deck listening to Sinatra/Bennett/Tyrell/Buble, charting the flight patterns of the many hawks overhead, and critiquing the golfers' swings on the 11th-hole tee box directly in front of us.

Bodega Bay Memorial Weekend

We stayed two nights on the North Coast over the Memorial Day Weekend. We ate at The Tides on Saturday night, and had a seafood feast at the Bodega Bay house on Sunday evening. The nights were cool so we fired up the fireplace both nights. On Saturday, we did a northerly road trip to Duncans Mills, Jenner, and Fort Ross. the only Russian settlement in the U.S, (1812 to 1842), and where the first windmill in California history was built. Hwy 1 was "Lombard St" curvy above Bodega Bay. We're back now, but will be flying down to Orange for Roy's 80th birthday on Friday.

This just in...

Lucky girl. Now she can support her Mom and Dad.

Spring News

Spring has sprung. Our new pop-up sprinklers in the front yard are working great and the lawn is now lush. One of our four crepe myrtles in the backyard, that we thought the frost claimed, is now blooming. All the outside plants, including the new patio 6-foot banana plant, are really busting out. A few weeks ago we enjoyed Dean in LION IN WINTER in Roseville, he is getting ready to do STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE in about a week. We also spent a weekend in San Francisco at the St Francis, enjoyed an excellent dinner at Le Colonial, and a not-so-excellent play called SHOPPING!! THE MUSICAL. Last weekend we celebrated cinco de mayo on tres de mayo in Dean's backyard (see party animal Cindy above), and this weekend Lindsay, her new friend Cory, and Ryan came over for a Sunday Mom's Day cocktail party in the backyard. Cory and Alex did the heavy lifting for Cindy's new cement bench. We are winging down to Orange on the 30th to celebrate my Dad's 80th birthday. The heat will introduce itself this week and Spring will give way to Summer. We're still trying to plan a vacation between now and Santa Cruz in September.