Sunday, November 30, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014



We hosted Thanksgiving 2014 at our house and had a crab lunch at 12:30 and a traditional turkey dinner at 6:30!  And for good measure, Uncle B and Auntie D made lumpia for an afternoon snack!   It was a beautiful 75 degree day.  We enjoyed a walk in the middle of the day and watched a lot of football.

It was a wonderful day!

My cool new drip candles

Indoor crab

Outdoor crab

Standing room only


Making lumpia

Finished product


Frying up the veggie lumpia




Ready for a crab feed

Working on the turkey

Succulent thief


This accidentally jumped off a plant and into my hands while I was out for a walk.  It was hanging over the sidewalk so it was in danger of being kicked anyway so I feel like I saved its life.  It is a really pretty reddish color.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Cousins


The cousins - circa Nov 2014.  What an attractive bunch!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving Table 2014



Day Before Thanksgiving


The day before Thanksgiving was a full day.  Among other things we:

  • Cooked 70 crabs in the backyard
  • Grace had friends over to work on a project
  • We made 2 trips to the grocery store
  • Drove to VC twice
  • Sat around the fire pit
  • Took G's friend home
  • Went to sushi
  • Went to the Sharks game
  • Watched a car fire

A good day all the way around!!


Ready for Thanksgiving!

A watched crab pot never boils!



Crab kit!

Sharks game


Stopped for a car fire on the way home from the Sharks




Half Moon Bay

We went to Half Moon Bay to visit the fishermen and have some lunch.  It was a beautiful day and actually so warm that people were in swimsuits on the beach.

We went by the boat and watched all the craziness of dock life for a little while and then went to Sam's for some lunch.

It was a great way to spend a vacation day!


Fed this guy some squid and he did not like it!

King of the World

Aunt Pat watching the world go by.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Ahi the contortionist

We spent some time today sitting outside around the fire pit.  Ahi got tired and wanted a place to lay down.  I was working so I had my computer off to the side which did not give her as much room as she would like.  This is the position she ended up in!

M-80

Yesterday at about 11 am while we were loading up to go to Half Moon Bay, there was a huge explosion on the side of the house.  We (my mom and dad, my Aunt and Uncle, Drew and me) all went running outside expecting a house to be on fire -   It was LOUD! 

We could see smoke drifting down the street as we looked around and whole bunch of neighbors came out of their houses.

There was no sign of fire or other catastrophe.

But when I looked down the streeet I saw 3 teenagers walking away from the area of the boom.

I told Drew to hop in the truck - we were going to talk to them.

We took off, pulled up next to them and Drew said, "hey guys, did you hear that explosion?"

They were immediately shifty eyed and gave us some very vague answers, like "oh yea, it was back that way" but pointing to a direction away from our house.

I then said, "so what was it, an M-80?" and they were all shifty eyed and nervous.

Then Drew pulls this whopper, "hey guys, we can just go pull the video from our camera and see that it was you, so just tell us."

And then I added, "So you have two choices, talk to us about it, or we give our video to the police and let them handle it.  We just want to know what it was."

At this point, one of the kids is talking to another one saying "just tell them it was us."

At which point Drew says, "I can hear you!"  (And I giggled)

So finally, they fess us and tell us that it was them and it was "a little firecracker".

So I respond and tell them that they scared the shit out of my old neighbors and to do stupid stuff like that somewhere else where there is not a bunch of people.

Then Drew added this zinger, "don't do stupid stuff and go to school, just GO TO SCHOOL!"

HAHAHA - look who turned into Mr Mature - telling kids to go to school!

And off the went.


Sunday, November 23, 2014

Cherry Lake - November 2014

5 or 6 miles from Cherry
Today we were finally able to go to Cherry Lake after it has been closed for 15 months from the Rim Fire.  Grace, Marty, me and the dogs drove in and did a 6 mile hike to the area around the island.  We were able to see one of our camping spots!

There were spot fires around the lake but nothing like the devastation on the road into Cherry.  About 5 miles from Cherry is total devastation.


About 4 miles from Cherry they are burning piles of debris


Stopped to take pic along the road and Daisy thought she was getting out.

Daisy was at the ready to jump out if needed.

About 3 miles in, we stopped and checked it all out.

This is looking at the Island from close to one of our camping spots on the mainland.

The island with the land bridge.

From the boat ramp area




Shows how low the water is

Hot spot right by the lake

More Pics

Here are some more pics from Drew's major mechanical malfunction.

I just realized he is going back to school next week which means that truck will be broken down in my garage for months!