It's taken just over two years for this blog to reach its 100th post, and we've spent all of the last twenty minutes racking our brains on how to mark the occasion. Amy Sheep suggested buying a case of champagne and getting one of those huge cakes that strippers climb out of, but unfortunately we didn't have the budget available. Instead we came up with a compilation of what we've been up to* since the first Shelter-in-Place order at the end of March.
Right at the beginning of March we took a trip up to Point Reyes Station. We took my parents here once when the weather was not as nice as it was on this day.
....and Amy Sheep took up the air guitar:
About a week later Sam and I went to Val's in Hayward for our last pre-lockdown hamburger, although we didn't know this at the time. We actually used to go to Val's a lot when Sam and I lived at the Brown House, but this was our first visit in seven or eight years. We're waiting to see if Val's will survive the pandemic. It's one of my favorite burger joints, but it's also a bit of a trek from where we live now. I'll be sad if it closes for good.
The next thing we knew, Amy Sheep was working from home:
Since then we've been hanging out across the street at Joaquin Miller Park, chillin' in the backyard, and wearing our masks whenever we leave the house.
This is me on the deck proving I can still fit into a T-shirt I've owned since 1991
Sam acquired his new bike a week before....
...we went up to Tahoe River for a change of scene.
Soon after this he became a teenager!
It's been a terrible Summer for fires with smoke hanging in the air for weeks and weeks...
I took Amy Sheep into the city for her birthday dinner - the whole place was deserted
This was September 9, 2020. It was dark all day and the sky had an eerie yellow glow - too much smoke for the sun to break through. Everywhere was deathly quiet all day.
We've been to the beach a gazillion times this summer - what else is there to do? This was Half Moon Bay at the end of October:
We've also had more power cuts than we want to remember. The outage at the end of October went on for three and a half days. We have our own generator now, but it is hardly ideal.
We went to Oakland Zoo on Hallowe'en. There was about ten percent of the usual amount of people there, so it was a good time to go.
One day in November Amy Sheep, Quinner, Sam and myself gave work a miss and went on the San Francisco self-guided sightseeing tour where you get to drive around the city on a motorized tricycle for a couple of hours. The city is dead right now and you'd see more tourists at a sewage treatment works in the outer Hebrides, so we had most of the roads to ourselves.
A very happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading (or not reading) this. We sure enjoyed ours! Next time we see you, it will be back to the DIY!
(*DIY projects not included!)
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