Actually, the Finns Are Here. My stepfather is of Finnish extraction, and has gotten to know some of his relatives there, and he and Mom visited them there; and this year, three of them have come here for Christmas! They arrived yesterday, here in My Old Home Town (well, where I went to junior high […]

Having a lovely time in the quiet country home of Dad and Stepmom. Sleeping in, playing cards, eating too much. Little Dog is doing much better–he’s like his old self again. Probably it was just a virus. Today it rained and sleeted and hailed, and also was sunny. I never set foot outside, even to

Oh yay, LiveJournal works again. I haven’t been able to log in in several days. I left the Bay Area yesterday–Mark drove me north, to my dad’s fabulous health club; then Mark returned south for a few important things (he’ll rejoin us tomorrow). Here, I went for a swim (yay!), then we went home for

I mentioned the weekend was going to get even busier? Yeah. That. Good though! Saturday we left the east bay and visited some friends in Novato, then went to my brother’s house for a party he was giving for his Fabulous Girlfriend on the occasion of her successfully completing her Ph.D. program in education. Lots

So we either have time and no internet, or internet and no time. 🙂 We are, as I sort of mentioned, in the Bay Area, staying at the elegant and gracious home of the Lovely Lady E. Yesterday we did a pile of freelance work in the morning, then headed off to the city to

So the internet worked only sporadically at Mark’s parents’ place, and in fact seemed to work less and less well as time went along; and also we were really enjoying being louche and indulgent, sleeping until all hours and eating All The Things, before going to bed again; anyway, now we are back in civilization,

We have made it safely to Mark’s parents’ home, in the Land of Very Little Internet (but it does function!). It was a marvelous weekend, as I mentioned; a fabulous birthday party for H. And an interesting experience getting there. We followed the google map directions, but began to get worried as the path took

Just a brief moment of internet here, so the writeup to come later, but here are a couple of photos from yesterday. We are celebrating a milestone birthday for H, overnight at the East Brother Light Station in San Francisco Bay. The dock was interesting: Skeleton Crew San Pablo Ave Not Currently Occupied But the

[I guess technically yesterday, but only just barely] Shasta was pretty with snow on it: There was a spectacular sunset coming in to the Bay Area (which the poor iPhone did NO JUSTICE to, so just trust me on this): And then there was a lovely pre-birthday party for H., at her parents’ incredible home,

Photographic evidence: Tiny icicles on the “coffin” on the car (and Mark in the background) Back on the road again!