Snow!

It snowed here this morning!! The hills around our town are covered in snow...and not just little 'patches' of snow. COVERED! at the upper sections and covered at the lower areas. Pretty cool. It is already in the mid-30's here at 6:30PM so if there's rain tonight, it will be snow! And we're all hoping for that. This morning, H. was reluctant to get out of bed 'cuz he'd heard from friends that is was going to snow and that 'we might get a snow day off'. Um, not so much. This is central California, after all.

(It is 63 degrees in this room and there's been a family revolt and they turned on the central heat. Guess I can't blame them - it is pretty cold in here, even for their 'hot-flashing' mama/wife).

Last week zoomed by - arising at 3:30AM a few days and 'sleeping in' until 4:40 a couple...big report to finish and worked 12-16 hour days most days last week. Made for a very long week - and yet it was so busy, it zoomed by. Amazingly fast.

We're heading into the holiday break and the pace will slow down slightly - still plenty to do but looking forward to two weeks off.

I had hopes of having Christmas decorations up and done by the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but my husband could not handle doing Christmas decorations in November so we stalled. I thought having an 'eco-friendly' tree (read: artificial) would allow us to do decorations earlier - no fear of dried needles going up in flames. But he just can't do Christmas before December. Guess it stems from his family tradition of getting their tree on Christmas eve every year - so I should be thankful he deals with a 'first weekend in December' plan. So the tree is up, though only with the 'built-in' lights on - we add color lights and we haven't done that yet. Outside decorations are on the lawn. No lights around the garage or on the rafters yet, and there's some negotiations commencing about that. This weekend, we'll finish the tree and hopefully set up the 'projector' for Christmas projections on the garage door.

We have tons of shopping yet to do - glad that we are off starting on 12/19 and have most of a week to finish shopping.

This past Saturday, J. and I went to the Christmas Yacht parade at the Jack London Square Marina in Oakland. Spent the evening on a 38 foot cabin cruiser, watching the other boats go by. It was lots of fun - good food, nice people and pretty boats with amazing lights, etc. including a couple projecting music videos on their sails. It was awesome. We had a really nice time and are hoping to be invited again next year - and we're trying to all encourage the boat owner/captain to register for the parade and we'll all help decorate her boat for the parade. THAT would be even more fun.

Oh, if you want to see B. drumming at his recent gig, you can find him on YouTube:



I think the band is good and their vocalist is OK - but the drummer is AWESOME. (I'm biased). The sound is awful....but you can see/hear B. pretty well.