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December 31, 2008.  In front of our apartment.

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6 people + 1 late arrival
a kitchen bursting at the seams with food
Rock Band 2
a Magic Mic
2 bottles of champagne… er… sparkling wine made “methode champagnoise”
2 bottles of old vine zinfandel
1 bottle of ice wine
4 (or 5) bottles of beer
three quarters of a bottle of Italian limoncello
5 shots of some horrible Icelandic liquor reminiscent of [...]

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The leaves have started to fall.
I noticed it earlier when Devon and I went out the front door. The sidewalk was littered with leaves from the giant tree out front, leaves that weren’t there this morning. There was a gentle, cool wind blowing as we went on out evening walk. It was [...]

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Summer in Northern California + red sugar water + deck + flowers = humbirds!
This is such a timesink, but it’s wonderful watching them all afternoon. It’s SO hard to take clear pictures of them, even with continuous-tracking autofocus, because they flit around so quickly. But anyway…

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In one of my recent posts I talked about getting corn to cook and “freeze for the winter”. Well, yesterday I went to the farm in Morgan Hill and got some.
This is one of the things I really love about living in the Bay Area. Here we are in Silicon Valley, center of [...]

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There are no more cherries at the supermarkets. A sure sign that it is past midsummer and that the days are getting shorter and shorter.
Late summer through early fall is stone fruit season, so instead of cherries and all manner of berries, you get apricots, peaches, plums, and nectarines. (Well, technically cherries are [...]

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