October Nights

Here's my house on a typical October Saturday. October weather in the Bay Area translates to perfectness....

Here's 3 of my 4 doggies after their once a month afternoon baths. Monroe on rug.

Mills (black and white).

Jasper (the other adorable one).

Sunset from our Dutch door we put in at the beginning of the year. It looks out onto the Bay. Across said bay is SF. So....out our front door, we watch the sun set over SF thru our neighbors trees.

Here's the cottage in our back yard that we worked on today.

We put up these 3 windows today after MANY years.

5?

This is the view we look out on from inside of our front door. Check out the squirrel running across the phone line on the left.

Close up of sunset from front door.

Me happy!

MARRIAGE DAY

Yeah we did it! Wednesday Oct. 22nd at 1:00 in San Francisco City Hall.

A gorgeous hot day in SF and City Hall was awesome!

My mom C. was the witness and we also brought 4 close friends along.

Later that night we had a reception at our friend N.'s house in SF with about 25 people. It was really wonderful. Lots of food, drinks, LOVE and good friends!

Our beautiful cake which Kimm made said Kimistry.

This Year On My Vacation.....

Kimm and I celebrated our birthdays last week by camping at a little lake in the Sierra's called Pinecrest Lake. It's near Sonora where our friends M and P live. So we also got to spend a bit of time with them which is always fantastic!

We'd never been camping there before and it's beautiful! But not so good for the dogs. Lots of sap on the ground from all the pine trees. Lots of globby, sappy, sticky spots on doggies which later I cut out with scissors.

But the hike around the lake is AMAZING! 4.2 miles of absolute gorgeous wonderment! And besides us there were only about 15 other people in the whole park--nice.

I love camping the last week of September. Unless it rains.

Tonite I'm going to jam with my old band. We haven't played together in 4 months! I can't wait to hear about all the trouble my young, single guitar player has been getting into. If any of you know him you know it's always a treat! I suppose getting older means I now have to live vicariously through my younger and more dicey friends. Which is O.K. because I'm too tired anymore at the end of the day.

SONSEED

If this song is not playing in your head for weeks there's something wrong with you.

Sorry I had to steal it from you C.

EVERYONE has to see this. Pass it on.

Broken Sewer Lines SUCK

This is what we had fun doing a couple of weeks ago. I came home from walking the dogs and saw raw sewage on the side walk in front of our house that had spewed up from behind a wooden retaining wall. I could tell it was our raw sewage from all the tampons. Nice!
So we started digging. First removing the wooden retaining wall then jack hammering the old cement retaining wall that the previous owners had hidden behind the newer wooden one. Then LOTS of digging and SURPRISE! the old cement retaining wall had slowly sunk upon and crushed the old clay sewer line. Luckily our pal Cliff (pictured here next to large semi cab.) could lend us his jack hammer which helped us immensely!
After finding the crushed line and hammering up the square of sidewalk above the line. We replaced the old clay pipe with new ABS plastic. Gotta love plastic sometimes! We buried the new line. Poured the new sidewalk and called it done. I won't tell you what we really called it but you can imagine.
But we fixed our sewer lateral for under $250 dollars. Pretty good considering it could have cost us $3000 if we had called someone in to do it for us.
WOO HOO! Girl Power (+ Cliffs Jack Hammer)!