At today’s meeting, officers for the next two years were elected and everyone watched a 2014 Year in Review slideshow.
The most fun was a Throwdown: Arlete v Harold Horrell using Blood Oranges. Everyone voted after tasting both and it was a TIE! Harold’s cake was excellent. He named it Bloody Wallbanger because it included a generous amount of Galliano. Yum!
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Stephanie and son Josh Jr with Barbara Longo. Stephanie and Josh made a delicious thank-you dinner for the Board of Directors. 
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You can see the end of Justin’s driveway!
When I walk around the block, at one house a dog always comes along the fence and barks for the entire length. We chat. Today it went something like this,
“Hello there. How are you today? I see you almost everyday and it seems like you should be getting to know me by now. Maybe, if I knew your name, we could be better friends.”
“HAILEY!”
I literally spun around looking for where that voice might have come from. Surely this wasn’t a Mr Ed-like experience.
Ah-ha, behind the very tall spreading evergreen, someone was pruning crape myrtles. Hailey and John:
On Cornelius Road:
Most of the time, flocks of birds will take off when I walk by, but these birds just walked fast. Hundreds of feet swooshing through the water.
Another friendly and entertaining neighbor:
Mike Wade and I gave a CBET (Community Based English Tutoring) training back on Dec 8 and were asked to repeat it for the final wave of teachers who will be teaching in schools. Graciela Garcia Torres, Director of the EL Department, introduced this year’s program.
It’s always so much fun to work with Mike. He was Justin’s 3rd AND 4th grade teacher, which Justin didn’t enjoy so much, although Mike and I had a great time writing notes back and forth to each other on his homework.
And, by a round-about way, I am now a part-time independent contractor with TRUSD. The scope of work I submitted was accepted and will support ALL the teachers teaching CBET. In addition, I will try to expand EL services into school libraries, computer labs, and Sacramento Public Libraries. And whatever else I can come up with!
I gave my camera to Brian, one of the parents who comes to our bike club meetings. Therefore you are about to see more of me in a blog post than ever before. Below, at the far left, is Cindy who works at Auburn Elementary and is the grandmother of one of the club members. It’s great to have TWO involved parents to support our club.
As we got ready to go the playground for blacktop drills,
Brian took a picture for another Bicycle Garden planting.
Club members are working through a series of skills which must be mastered before we can even consider going for a street ride: starting in power pedal, controlled stop using both brakes, hand signals, lane positioning.
Today, we moved on to scanning over the left shoulder and deciding if it was safe to leave the right lane position to avoid a hazard.
Adrienne and Linda!
A fun evening with good food and lots of talking.
Santa was good to Justin. This is an Outlaw Cart, built for a child but soon to be modified to carry Justin around a neighborhood dirt track. A future blog post for sure. Tom in Alabama: Justin said you’re definitely invited to come and take it for a spin.
at Calvary Lutheran Church.
