Lots to catch up on... part 1

It was quite a busy week last week:

The garden just grew and grew..

I am fascinated by the tomatillo plant in my pot. It is growing veraciously and it is covered in the little bells. I have never grown one before, and I am truly hoping that they will reach their full potential but in the mean time I am really enjoying watching it grow.

Thursday we had a Neighborhood Watch introductory meeting..

I know they say you are getting old when you notice police men look younger, but I swear the community services police officer didn't look old enough to be working! The photo I took of him wasn't very good, or I'd post it.

The biggest part of such a group seems to be getting to know your neighbors, so I am really hoping something will come of it.

On Friday we headed up towards San Francisco to drop Mary (my mother-in-law) off at the airport after a three week stay, and we kept on driving across the Golden Gate Bridge (in the fog) up towards Jenner. We stopped off on the way at the Pelican. A really nice English pub in Muir beach. A pint and a cheese and ham toastie to keep us going :-)

We stayed at the Rivers End in Jenner, a small restaurant with cabins that we had stayed in last summer. The view is just wonderful. It was a grey day but still spectacular ...

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Thank-full for health insurance

Having spent 4 hours in the emergency room last night with Dick, I am grateful that we have health insurance. It all started with a phone call from Dick saying he had fallen off his bicycle on his way home from work, and would I come and collect him as he was a 'bit banged up'? I rushed there and the first thing I saw was that I could hardly see his eyes- he was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was manifesting itself in his sinuses. All he could remember was having a huge sneezing fit after he 'woke up' having fell off his bike. 'Woke up'?? He couldn't remember hitting his head, although the scrape on the right side of his forehead showed he'd definitely banged his head. His first concern, naturally, was that the bike and his laptop were ok. However, we did not hang around to check them over, we just loaded them into the car- after he taken an anti-histamine that I always keep in my bag. For Dick to say he is hurting is unusual enough,...

Labor Day weekend to Tahoe- Part Two

Plan B was to drive over the Sonora Pass instead- a route a little further north. So the next morning we drove the very twisty windy and beautiful route. 9624 feet up. The down side was it took us several hours. A long drive through western Nevada and we finally saw the eastern side of Lake Tahoe. So blue! We were staying at Northstar- a ski resort which turns into a mountain bike and hiking haven during the summer months. We arrived too late to go on the slopes but not too late to go and enjoy the sun going down over the lake. There was a really interesting cloud formation, and so the sunset was lovely.

Corks

I started collecting wine corks a little while ago. For no particular reason. Then I decided I could make something out of them. Right now I have them in an over-sized margarita glass. They are fun to take photos of!

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