A month without internet connection but with Christmas and crab and love

Which explains why I haven't written on this blog in a month!  The nice little sweet cottage where I am now living, in Glen Ellen, hasn't been able to sustain a connection and I haven't been home enough (work, Mendocino, dog sitting, more work) to figure it out and make it happen.  Thus, no blog posts. At this moment I am at work, just letting the two or three people who check this blog regularly to not give up hope: I will return.  Sadly, perhaps they have already given up hope and have gone elsewhere for their quota of boring, useless news. Sigh.

To recap the past month, I moved in the week before Thanksgiving, have gotten pretty settled and I think it will work out well. It's less than 250 square feet but it is very homey and seems more spacious than 250 sq feet.  I will try and get a photo of it for you, but words will have to suffice at this point.

I also had a catering gig with my daughter one night, got to dog-sit the cute Hannah for a week, went to Mendocino for two nights with the kids, their mates and dogs and met John and Diane there and had a lovely, relaxing time. We all enjoyed it and we all hope it can become an annual pre-Christmas get-together. There is something so nice about a nice hotel in a beautiful setting where one can retire to one's room when one needs quiet time, and where dogs are  not just tolerated but openly invited. 

Then Christmas Eve was upon us, my favorite day of the year. Dar and I drove early in the morning to get live crab at Bodega Bay, a beautiful drive for a worthy cause. (Who doesn't love fresh cooked crab, I ask you?)  Lots of tasty bites, lots of good champagne, crab, more snacks and tons of gifts to open, it was the best Christmas Eve ever!  (I say that every year, of course.) 

  YUMMY!

In the middle of all that was work, work, work.

And now it is the last day of the year, the last day of the decade. We can only hope that 2020 is a good year. Better than 2019. We can hope for it and we can do our part to help make that happen by voting, making others vote, by eating better, monitoring what we can do for the environment, helping good causes either with monetary donations or the gift of volunteering our time, loving each other, being kind and generous and by trying to be happy and make others happy.  Whew!  It's a daunting list of things to accomplish but I know we can all do it, do our part, and have a good year.

I hope to be back writing again soon. Thanks for reading.