Quickies

I haven't gotten to any writing, this week, for some reason. There's plenty of mundane material to write about, for sure. The odd-looking frost I discovered on my morning walk, for example. It was 26 degrees, and all sparkly, with a strange ice formation all over the ground. The top layer of dirt or leaves, was pushed up off the base layer by filaments of ice one to three inches high. If it happens tomorrow, I'll try to get a photo.

Or, there's the studio, which is about 90% put together, now. It's in a state of suspended animation, however, until after New Years.

Did some Christmas shopping. I'm the worst. Stores like to gobble me up. I go in, but I can't get out. Then I get all forlorn and forget my name.

Baked some quick breads. Banana blueberry. Chocolate date. Caramel apple. They all caved in on top. Delicious, but not exactly gift material. I used to make hundreds of 'em. Lost the magic, somewhere...

Yesterday, I drove to Fresno and back (230 miles, 3 1/2 hours each way). I like the drive. I spent a really nice afternoon with Mom, with Terry joining us a few hours later for traditional Christmas pizza. For some unfathomable reason, California Pizza Kitchen has taken the Pear Gorgonzola pizza off the menu! What?!! And I took my camera, but never got any photos of us. You'd be SO WRONG, if you thought it was because my sister looked way cuter than me and that Mom had a strange hat on.

The big news, is that Dylan wrote us a short email, yesterday. Here it is:

mambo vipi! having to switch to swahili nowadays, so there you go...things are going great here, but I am ready to come home...sorry to make you guys drive all the way out to SFO to get me, but as of now I am scheduled in on British airways flight BA0285 from heathrow at 1:15 on 24 december...looking forard to seeing you and sharing my stories and photos...see you soon - dylan

Rachel hasn't yet made it from New York to San Francisco, so she's now planning to get in to SFO a couple of hours before Dylan. So cool! We'll have such a fun time catching up! We'll get those pinwheel eyes from looking at so many photos!

Police Blotter, tomorrow.