SABA = Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates. Last year I was in charge of three after-school bike clubs at schools in West Sacramento and I’ve volunteered for their bike valet service a time or two – all sponsored by SABA. Bike Dog Brewing Co was the perfect place for a get-together.
A collection of Mixtes hang from the ceiling.
At left, Deb Banks, acting Executive Director of SABA and the owner of all the Mixtes. At right, board member Sue Teranishi.
Gymnastics
Carson:
Craft Fair
at St John the Evangelist Catholic School. This is the best craft fair in the region. This year, Adrienne and I went on Friday night, the only time when there’s a small entrance fee. To avoid parking a mile away on this somewhat rainy evening, we arrived early and tailgated. I made warm chicken cordon bleu sandwiches and brought some peanut butter whiskey (with a splash of half & half) to share ahead of time.
It seemed like everyone who went in ahead of us went to the Maus Haus. It was 3-deep, impossible to get close.
Every usable space at this school became vendor spaces: classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, gymnasium, lawn areas. And we visited every one of them. By the time we were ready to leave, we checked out the Maus Haus again. Every mouse is different and they are so well-made.
This week
I didn’t blog all week because I didn’t do ANYthing. Except for slowly digging out all my Christmas decorations and figuring out where to put everything. Justin came by to put up my outside lights. Thank you!
The tree went up.
For the last few years, I save the Christmas cards I receive for exactly one year, then make this hanging ornament. It takes 20 cut-out circles.
Old friends coming out from storage for a month-long visit – Thais made this for me when she was in high school:
I’ll stop now. I could bore you with many more decorated spaces.
Thanksgiving
Hans was in charge of the fried turkey:
Charlie is a new addition to the family:
Thanksgiving Eve dinner
with Carol and Jerry,
Greg,
Justin and Jennifer.
Hair cut
Whitney is back from having baby #3. Who had the appointment before me?
Who had the appointment after me?
We’re all glad Whitney is back!
After work
Val was working in North Natomas today and we met at Pete’s Bistro after she got off work.
My “look” reflects a day of grocery shopping, prepping in the kitchen for upcoming events, and not leaving myself enough time to get ready. Oh my … it’s just the start of the holiday season.
Carson
Carson was sick this morning and couldn’t go to school. I watched him in the morning. We put together puzzles and played Bird Bingo and Dog Bingo. He picks out which cards each of us should have. We both need to have a “Carter” – a golden retriever – on our cards. He was peeking inside the bag to select a dog that was on his card but not mine (lol):
When he knows you’re going to take his picture, this is the look he gives you:
After EVERY turn we had to individually count how many dots each of us had to determine who was ahead. Despite the fact that there are just 25 spaces on each card, Carson had 38 dots! And he was always winning. LOL.
Ride-along for Jibe
Wednesday and Thursday morning at o’dark 30, I met a Jibe Express bus at the starting point of their route. I did three routes each morning, a different route/driver each day. I offered a fresh muffin from Bella Bru Cafe to each passenger that boarded. Once the bus got on the freeway headed to downtown Sacramento, I reminded them of upcoming changes, holiday hours, the free emergency ride home service, and how they could track the buses in real time using a new app, and took feedback if there was any. After dropping off the last passenger, we headed back to the start of the route again.
By 9 am each day I was done. What a fun job!
