...to those who celebrate it.

Last night we had light rain followed by light snow and sub-freezing temperatures, a combination that makes me very glad we did our weekly grocery shopping yesterday and that we do not have to go anywhere today. Even going out to refill the bird feeder seemed like an adventure as I struggled to keep my footing on the icy sidewalk. However, snow and ( Read more... )

Just after Halloween, the North Lyon County Fire Protection District changed their "look out for trick-or-treaters" sign to a timely reminder.


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Yesterday I ate the last of the Dave's Killer Pumpkin Spice Madness Bagels. (I could get more for a few more days, but I've already had too many of them this holiday season.) Today I had for lunch the last serving of duck soup made from the boiled-down remains of our Christmas duck. The holiday cookies are gone, too. (Again, that's probably a good ( Read more... )

We still send out a few holiday cards, but we didn't do it before Thanksgiving and were so wiped out by the trip that we just tonight got around to finishing the mailing. We'll put the cards in the mail tomorrow, but probably some of them won't arrive until after Christmas. Mind you, we send out a lot fewer cards than we used to do. Many people we ( Read more... )

As luck would have it on this only weekend between the Thanksgiving and New Year's when I'm in the Bay Area, the Locus holiday party was this afternoon and I was invited, so I made my way into the maze that is the roads up in the Oakland hills and managed to find my way to Locus House with only one wrong turn (which is better than I did last year) ( Read more... )