5 am: Dave and Phyl left. They planned to drive straight through, about 16 hours of driving, to Deer Lodge, MT.
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Vow renewal
Congratulations Chris and Mary on 30 happy years of marriage. Today they renewed their vows in a ceremony at their house (Dave & Phyl’s old house).
Chris and Greg
Back row: Johnny, Beth, Alexa. Front row: Jerry, Carol, Chuck.
Phyl and Dave in the foreground. Looking the other way 🙂 is Chris and Greg’s dad, Ken.
Tournament day 2
Because everything was pretty much finished last night to get ready for today’s lunch and awards and after I made sure the pink polka dot napkins were on the table, I decided to head home.
Tournament Day 1
Maria and her guest Shelly ready to go early Thursday morning.
The only thing I needed to check on: are the pink polka dot napkins on the table? Yes.
Dottie, Jacque, and Maria.
After lunch, I removed all the centerpieces from the tables.
After the tablecloths had been replaced, I put them all back. Later I helped Maddie and her team get the tables ready for the next day’s lunch. Then went to back to Maria’s for an end-of-day-one celebration where I ran into and visited with an old friend from Rio Linda Senior High School – Sue Kelly.
LWW Ladies Golf Invitational
I drove up to Maria’s to help (behind the scenes) at the Lake Wildwood Ladies Golf Invitational.
Maddie was in charge this year.
Thursday at Merrilyn’s
on Tuesday!
Spinach and pine nuts in puff pastry and Stuffed mini-portobellos. And wine 🙂 
With Phyllis!
Phyl and Dave
Phyl and Dave arrived today from Montana. Yay!!
I had a few of Phyl’s book club friends over.
Elaine, Becky, Kathy
Saturday
Coffee with Linda and Adrienne.
Gymnastics with Carson.
Soccer with Sophia.
And a shopping trip to Green Acres Nursery. Thais was a consultant for not only me, but also Leah and Jeff.
Friday travel
This morning, Thais and I took Carson to Milestones
then took the Capitol Corridor train to Berkeley and Lyft to our favorite fabric store.
We had lunch at Toss Noodle Bar,
and little window shopping on 4th St before taking the train back to Sacramento. We picked up Carson and went directly to Avery’s Little League game.
Fun day!
Westfield Village Bike Club
This was my last bike club meeting at Westfield Village with its most faithful member, AngelLillie. I was so happy Deb Banks rode with us.
Riding with AngelLillie has been such a delightful experience that I wanted our last meeting to be special, so the three of us rode 2 miles to Joe’s Crab Shack in Old Sacramento.
Molly Wagner from WALKSacramento joined us.
On our way back,
I noticed some smoke, we stopped, evaluated, and called 911 …
a small crowd gathered,
the fire department arrived,
and put out the fire.
After being asked a few questions by a fireman, we rode on to where AngelLillie lived. I smiled as I listened to AngelLillie invent various scenarios about being heroines on bicycles, riding around, saving the community. When we said our final goodbyes, one of AngelLillies’s neighbors came by. She said, “We just saved all of West Sacramento from being burned down.” Smile. I will miss you AngelLillie.
