February 20234

Rog drove down to Santa Barbara with Jay for the annual Black Belt Meeting at the main dojo. There was a huge storm system barreling down on California which cut their trip short. They drove home after the meeting on Saturday. They avoided the high winds and rain that hit Sunday but they didn’t get home until after 2am. Blooms had quite a few hours without power and Ryan and Beth got stranded in Vegas for an extra day but we all survived the atmospheric river. On his birthday weekend, Max went to a ceremony celebrating a scholarship he won from the Daughters of the American Revolution.

So he had his birthday party a week late. This is a big one as he turns 18. I truly enjoy getting together with this family. We have such a good time together. Max has also decided that he will go to the University of Montana in Missoula. Now his family can prepare for a summer journey in August.

We had a nice visit with a friend from high school, Dick Byce. He is down from the Seattle area visiting his sister in Walnut Vreek so came up for lunch. We get to see him about once a year.

Rog and I celebrated Valentine’s Day at Handel’s of course! Rog has been busy putting together a very intricate cabinet for the new bathroom remodel project. The designer (me!) has some very unusual requests and isn’t really good at communicating her ideas. But it is coming along.

Meanwhile, whenever the rain let up, I was in the backyard trimming and weeding and raking. Rog joined me for a few days to trim the trees. I am trying to finish the back before the pavers come in March and restrict my access to the Recology barrels. By the end of the month, it was looking pretty spiffy. Of course, another storm hit the first few days of March which didn’t help with leaves.

During Karissa’s week-long president’s holiday, we found a sunny day after the snowstorm and visited the sno-park near Boreal. She found a great hill where she was alone and could modify it to her liking. After a couple of hours (and soaked to the skin) we headed to Truckee for lunch at Pies and More where we had a garbage pizza. Great fun!!!

Eric found a camper to put on his truck bed so they are another step closer to the month-long vacation trek they will be taking this summer.