What a perfect early afternoon New Year’s Eve celebration this year – my, how times have changed from my younger years! Steak and Gorgonzola potato chip nachos and Fromage fort.
Thursday @ Merrilyn’s
Monthly Archives: December 2025
Jim and Lucy
On Sunday I went to Jim and Lucy’s for dinner. Lucy puts up beautiful Christmas trees.
Christmas Eve dinner
at Kral’s. Jeff makes the best prime rib roast. There was a theme this year for the del Castillos:
Waiting for the adults to give the GO signal .. everyone on their own device.
I escaped before the chaos of gift opening began – lol. Great evening, lots of visiting, excellent meal!
Christmas Eve breakfast
at my house. Despite what it looks like, everyone was smiling and laughing.
Not much to do at Grandma’s house. I did appreciate help with a particularly challenging jigsaw puzzle: except for the edge pieces, all the pieces are the same shape with only the tiniest variations.
La Fornaretta
“Little baker girl” – also a restaurant in Newcastle.
I met Dennis – aka 7th-grade-boyfriend (65 years ago) – in Newcastle for dinner. Fun to catch up every once in a while.
Lunch at Linda’s
Linda, Ann, Joan, Kathy, Ade:
Christmas program
at St Ignatius. I went to the 9:30a performance.
3rd and 4th grades don’t have buddy classes, they form the choir for school year.
Buddy classes: 8th and 2nd. Every group sings two songs, one is a traditional carol.
Christmas party
for all the District 1 commissioners and committee members.
Councilmember Lisa Kaplan:
Del Rio Trail
The bridge over I-5 which connected the Sacramento River Trail with the new 5-miles Del Rio Trail has been repaired.
The grand opening was this morning. A group of us rode in from N Natomas.
Quite a few Active Transportation Commissioners showed up.
Big deal – Mayor McCarty, director of State Parks, Councilmember Jennings, all the local tv stations.
Christmas lights ride
We met at Bella Bru on early Monday evening.
N Natomas has many decorated homes, but the most amazing decorations are in an area called Rockmont Circle.
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