Back on June 29, from 4-8, six homes in the community opened their backyards. I did not take a single picture – darnit. Access to my backyard meant coming in through the front door.
Avery helped with a little ice cream sundae bar. I made about 80 pre-scooped cups and got rid of about 60 of them. Adrienne was also a big help. Through the sliding glass door …
On the other side of the house: 
Tag Archives: 4 Seasons Westshore
Bike rides
Saturday morning, July 6. From Four Seasons Lodge to Starbucks near the Amtrak station in downtown Sacramento. 18 miles roundtrip. Fun!
Peter Price, Phil Jackson, Pat Johnson
Tuesday morning, July 9. From Four Seasons Lodge to the Red Bud Trail, then Natomas Regional Park and Jack Rabbit Trail. 12.4 miles roundtrip. More fun!
Peter Price, Ray Krause
Leading these are rides are getting me out on my bike. Hurray!
Backyard Tour at Four Seasons Westshore
Next Saturday from 4-8 pm, six homeowners will open their backyards to visitors from the community. My backyard will be one of them. This evening, the six homeowners toured each other’s backyards.
1. Clayton Blakely
The designer, Clayton’s mother:
2. Denise and Cheryl Chapel
3. Janet Galliani
4. Me – you’ll see pictures in a future post.
5. Kirk and Holly Talon
6. Paul and Lauri Ponzelli
We hung out a while on the Ponzelli’s patio, Kirk played the guitar and sang a very special original song.
A totally fun pre-event! 
Bike rides
It’s been too hot to ride lately, but on Friday the high was in the low 80s so I invited the Four Seasons Westshore bicycle-interest group on a couple of rides that I’ve done before. It was windy and rather chilly at 8 am for the first ride. My neighbor Lorraine rode the 4-mile Public art ride #1:
The second ride came next: 6-mile Public art ride #2. My next door neighbor Colleen came on this ride. 
On Saturday morning, Helen arrived at 8 am for a 7-mile ride to the Natomas Farmers Market. A 20-mph north wind was blowing – ugh – the tailwind part of our ride was quite nice, but the headwind part was a challenge.
The fresh spring peas were worth it!
Four Seasons Westshore to Steamers
It was an 8 am start and it was a bit chilly but the rain wasn’t supposed to start until the afternoon. Three brave souls showed up and off we rode to Old Sacramento.
Peter Price, Phil Jackson, Helen Chao
After a half-hour break and a little snack, we rode back. Miles = 18
The best testimonial came from Peter in an email later that day, “I think I could now find my way to Old Sac on that route, which I hope to try with a biking partner sometime soon.” Success!
Four Seasons Westshore bike ride
May is Bike Month. I led two rides this morning for the residents where I live. Each one visited several public art installations in parks near us. I was quite happy with the turnout. The 9 am ride:
Meghalaya in the background, in front of Fire Station 43.
The 10:30 ride:
One of These Things is Not Like the Other in Witter Ranch Park:
Some people did both rides for a total of 12 miles.
TGIF
at the Clubhouse. Three neighbors on my street, Crete Island Lane, hosted tonight’s get-together. The title was “From Crete Island to …” We each did a 5-minute slideshow presentation about our recent travels. We got very good advertising and there were a lot of people who attended. Yay.
So much food!
My slide show was about the Erie Canalway bike ride last summer. I brought my bike loaded with everything I would need for a 7-day bike ride.
Kirk and Holly Talon shared their Camino de Santiago walk last summer which started in Porto Portugal. Their backpacks are ready for their next Camino walk – they leave in a couple of weeks. Kirk has his guitar strapped to his backpack.
My next door neighbors, Colleen and Matt Harding, shared their walk on the Kumano Kodo trail in Japan.
Baby Shower
Long story, amazing ending. Kara works at the front desk at the lodge. She is expecting her first child and saw a fabric baby carrier cover on Etsy she really liked, but it cost $50. She didn’t mind the cost but wondered if she could get one made by someone in our quilter’s group. Jane coordinates our group, she sent out the word. Carol Cota volunteered, Kara selected Marvel comics fabric as her theme. I asked Carol to give me the scraps and I made a fabric basket and 3 nesting zippered pouches:
Then the word got out and other residents wanted to contribute. A few weeks later, $1100 had been added. Today was a very informal baby shower and .. Kara was quite surprised.
Jane and Kara
TGIF at Four Seasons
Two of my neighbors and I hosted a TGIF at the lodge this evening, but there were “technical difficulties”. Hosting was still fun but our real TGIF will happen in two weeks. Attendance was minimal.
My next-door neighbors Matt and Colleen:
Chinese New Year
at Four Seasons Westshore. Ade came with me! 
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