Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happpy Thanksgiving!

We got a nice dusting of snow last night, and woke to a bright, sunny day with blue sky and snow-covered trees. It is glorious! All that brush in the background is what we call "snow bush" and is some sort of manzanita. Eventually it lays flat under the weight of the snow on top of it for the winter. My dad loves to shovel, and made sure to take care of the deck before the snow melted it away.

Then Curious Dad drove over our place to see how well the driveway heating worked. It didn't. He and Tim are over there now, working on it. It had been hooked up and was "all done" a week ago. It came on fine with overnight frost, but never turned off. At $4/hour for electricity, we prefer not to have it stay on indefinitely. Tim got the electrician out yesterday (finally) and he said that his guy mixed some wires during the final hook up. He fixed it and said that now we were good to go. But apparently not. And he has no "guy" to blame this time.

My pirate Sea Captain step-brother managed to get some time off and came out to California to grace us with his company for the holiday. No foolin', he is a Coast Guard certified Captain, who operates a sport fishing boat in Jupiter (near Palm Beach), Florida. And a heck of a lotta fun, too.

Meet Captain Lumberjack

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