Yup!  This is our street!  Clear for driving, but one needs to clear driveways and sidewalks.

We have rain!

It is not raining right now, but it rained almost all night here in Sacramento.  Hope to go back home to Reno tomorrow, but it is very possible that travel over Donner will be severely limited and we will have to stay here in Sacramento for another couple of days.

I am a bit disappointed with the bowl games thus far.  Sure saw a lot of sloppy football.

Hope to troop down to the Palm Springs area next week.  We just might get out of this cold for a while.

Bud was here this morning!

He will return tomorrow morning for breakfast.

We went to the park again and played on the jungle gym, using the slide and then did the swing thing before heading back to the house.

He is truly amazing!  I can't wait to  have him talk.

Dang!

Bud and his parents couldn't make it to Sacramento last night, but will be here later today.  So, our trip to Reno is off for another six months or so.  Bud will have to have his experience with snow another time.

It is a bit chilly in Sacramento this morning.  Heat should come on automatically in another  hour and one half.  I am currently  debating as to whether I should turn it on manually right now.

The front room is stacked with gifts for mom and the kids.  Kirby won't know what is going on (only two months old), but Bud (15 months old) might just be a riot.

We will have Xmas morning here with the kids.  Peter and Laura will then  head up to Grass Valley for Xmas with her family and the rest of us will head down near Elk Grove and have Xmas dinner with Bud's other grand parents (Vicki and Chris).  (It will be a long day.)

After we get  home, we shall start preparing Spook for a trip to Palm Springs, San Diego and Fullerton.  Hopefully, we shall be able to get out of the cold for a couple of weeks and re-connect with old friends in Palm Desert and San Diego.

It has been a very good year.  Hope we have another one like it.

Mo Rain!

The downspouts were talking to us this morning, but are silent now.  The rain sure made it smell good and apparently cleaned the air a bit.

The sad thing about that is that now those contaminates are in the soil, washed there by the rain.  (Can't seem to win.  Cure the problem, but by-products can kill ya.)

Dogs

Yeah, we have two, Teddy and Winston.  Teddy is a Bijon and Winston is a Lhasa. (Both are rescue dogs, so we take the breed suggested as an educated guest.)

Teddy came from a shelter in Lodi. Winston came from the Sacramento pound. They have vastly different histories.  Winston was on the street, but somewhere along the way was given some very expensive eye surgery on  his left eye while Teddy was from apartment living and was most probably spoiled rotten.

Teddy was three when we adopted him and Winston was four.  Both of these ages are estimates, but seem to work fine for them.

We have had them since 2005 and haven't regreted their adoption for one second.

Rain in December

We  had solid rain here in Sacramento begining at eight last night and continuing almost without stop until about ten this morning.  Since that time it has been inter-mitten all day.  Back patio is pretty wet, but no puddling yet.  Gutters are not gushing yet either.

Must just be a soaker this time, but is supposed to continue like this for a couple of more days.

Yup! We had snow in Reno.

We had eighteen inches of it at our place in Sierra Canyon.  Took a few minutes to clear the driveway.  Have pictures, but they are on the computer in Reno.  Not available to me here in Sacramento.

We are waiting for rain here and it may turn to snow.  Probably won't happen right here at our house.  The temp is too high.

Sacramento had snow!

However, it was in East Sacramento and did not fall in the area where we have our winter home.  Sure would have been funny if I had had to bring my snow blower down from Reno in order to move snow here.

For sure, I was ready to take pictures, but ALAS, it came to naught.  Will  head up to Reno tomorrow and perhaps I will get a few snow pictures there.

I think that JoAnn will have to drive.  I am getting my eyes checked tomorrow and they will get dialated.  May take a while for a return  to normal.  Oh well!

Saw Kirby today.  He is one handsome dude, a lady killer for sure at the age of thirty-two days.  He is amazing to hold.

Would you believe.........???

They are predicting snow for the central valley in Callifornia1  Oh well, it does happen about once every ten years or so.  Last time I think it was in the late nineties.  (God bless us all!)

Time marches on!  The mother of my deceased wife passed on on the day after Thanksgiving,  A very special lady.  I would write a book about her life except I am too close, knowing things that might prejudice her memory.

Goodbye mom!  You were a winner in my book!

No sun today yet!

Fog has moved into the Sacramento area.  Might burn off by this afternoon, but would not bet on it.

We have chorus practice this afternoon.  Performance will be on Sunday.  Oh my!

Kirby is now twenty-eight days old and growing like a weed.  Cute baby and I am already proud of him.