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Football on Sunday

While Sophia played volleyball in Roseville, Carson #1

and Avery – catching the ball – played their final flag football games.

Carson will now focus on Little League baseball. Avery will play volleyball, golf, and do track & field for the next few months. Sophia will continue with club volleyball. Busy family.

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Slow Down Sacramento

We planned to ride to Tahoe Park Elementary but the threat of rain caused us to drive instead. Also, currently, you can’t ride through Discovery Park due to flooding, which would have meant “taking the lane” on high-speed Hwy 160 to get across the river.

Brenda came to advocate with me!

Organizer of the event, Isaac Gonzalez:

We learned about Tactical Urbanism and worked on solutions to troublesome intersections in the area of the City of Sacramento that we lived in. We left with many low-cost easily-implemented tools to use for advocacy in the future. Gathering for a group photo:

It’s hard to get people to go and do these advocacy things with me .. so as a reward we treat ourselves to a stop at Chevy’s on the River on the way home. Cheers! And a BIG thank-you to Brenda.

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Birthday dinner

Terri’s birthday was in early January but she was traveling and couldn’t go out for dinner. Busy schedules kept us from celebrating her birthday until today – Leap Day. We went to Brasserie du Monde.

Terri, me, Elaine:

Delicious cocktails, amazing food. Scallops, fried polenta, snap peas, broccoli rabe:

We decided we need to do more dinners even if no birthday is involved. Too much fun!

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To the rescue

My usual day to pick up Carson and Avery is Thursday but there was a sick child for Wednesday’s carpool driver. I was able to step in and pick up Carson, Avery, and two nearby neighbors. We had just 15 minutes at home before we needed to leave for Avery’s first basketball playoff game. A few minutes to do homework.

Although encouraged to eat his snack in the car, Carson chose a different solution:

Avery #10 on defense. What a good game against St John the Evangelist.

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4-H Bicycle Project

Today was the first meeting of the Country Centre 4-H Club Bicycle Project. This is my third year being their mentor. Jeanne is the Project Leader. There were 3 participants today.

Evret, an experience mountain biker, is the Junior Project Leader.

We went for a short ride to Orchard Park. Under the bridge live many turtles, maybe 15 or so.

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Banners are up!

Last year, on November 28, Brenda, BarbaraL and I met a photographer at N Natomas Regional Park for a photo shoot. This was part of the N Natomas Joy project created by Jibe and Councilmember Lisa Kaplan. I received word yesterday that the banners have been installed! I went for a bike ride today to see them. There were 40 submissions. Half of the banners are along N Park Dr, the section that borders the N Natomas Regional Park. Most of the banners are on the park side.

The reverse side:

The rest of the banners are on Natomas Central Dr. These are less elongated.

At Gozo Island Ave, a few familiar faces:

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Flag football

Carson #1 played in the morning:

Charlie kept me company during our lunch break at home.

Avery #23 played in the afternoon.

Thais and Sophia were at an out-of-town volleyball tournament for the weekend, Lenin played golf, and I was thrilled to step in and help out.