Returned Monday afternoon from our lovely surprise weekend at the beach to find that the contractors for our nearest neighbor's new fence/sun room/re-routed driveway/electric gates had managed to push over a tall pine tree into the power line for all the houses on our  road.  At dusk when we got home, PG&E had been at work for about 5 hours, as ( Read more... )

Sitting happily in front of the newly made fire (all those pine cones I policed up make great firestarters) awaiting B and the anchovy pizza (anchovy lovers = true soulmates) and finally relaxing enough to post about the pleasant dullness that is my life ( Read more... )