I think we’ve had two evenings with short snow—without accumulation—and one significant hailstorm—with accumulation—in eleven years here. Intriguing.

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For the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we decided to explore San Mateo County’s section of the Pacific Coast. Dina settled on Butano State Park as our base, which is mostly made of a redwoods-forested canyon, south of Pescadero and on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We arrived in the late afternoon, having [...]

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It’s past ten o’clock in the evening, but it’s still 88°F—31°C—and there’s little to no wind. That means the back office is a little too hot to be comfortable…

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I’ve been wrapping up our tax returns, running reviews and reviewing an actual paper copy. One document (well, two) that I couldn’t find were the bills from the California Department of Motor Vehicles for the car registrations. But I was very pleased to find that they have an online retrieval system to help you find [...]

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Bloglines again suggests the week is shaping up wetly:

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Courtesy of bloglines.com: It doesn’t look like I’ll be packing away the downspout extensions or the portable sump anytime soon…

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Most Saturdays, Dina and Benjamin head off to swimming lessons. Nathaniel and I are left to our own devices, which means we go for one of two kinds of walk: a walking walk, where Nathaniel walks, and a seeing walk, where Nathaniel gets pushed. This week, Nathaniel expressed that he wanted to see trains on [...]

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Nathaniel has keen vision; we often see mourning doves on the power and telephone lines that pass by the front of our house and he is happy to point them out. And occasionally, a raucous crow will perch in one of the nearby trees or atop a pole shouldering the local lines. But a couple [...]

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Ben and I biked to GeoKids and then I carried on to the Menlo Park campus yesterday, perhaps in honour of Canada Day. Ben was pretty happy for the first few miles, but I suspect was bored by the time we made it to downtown Menlo. (Google Maps has the distance at about 5 1/2 [...]

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When we’re not looking at the fast cars, we notice other changes on our drive between Redwood City and Menlo Park. Based on coverage in the San Mateo Daily Journal, it looks like one of the independent groceries in Redwood City closed in April—confirmed by the empty parking lot just off the intersection of Fifth [...]

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