No lawn to mow today. Cold week, little growth and lots of rain. I like not mowing my lawn. A lot.
Today I went to Vacaville after I got every usual thing taken care of. I need to be sure I have enough advent gifts for Emily to get through most of December. Now I have time for online advent gifts ifnIbwqnt to order something. I took about two houes to go to several stores and I found maybe ten to twelve things. Of course, you need 24 total. And then L need to get the regular Christmas morning stocking done. We do a lot of stocking stuff.
I had taken Taffy to the vet in Vacaville on my way to shopping. She needs her anal glands expressed. They can be very painful and ahe can hardly walk. I met up outside Pet Smart with Emily on her way back from yoga and she took taffy home. I continued shopping. My trip was about two hours.
After shopping I went home and helped Emily clean the house. Always a blast. But it was getting pretty dirty. Emily does more of the house cleaning than I do. I like to do what I feel capable of doing. Like dusting, vacuuming and bathrooms. I help but I will never be as good at it as she is.
Trisha, our roomie, came by while we were cleaning. She wanted to olay wih Prints our cat. She went out to the cat atrium for 20 minutes and played wirh the cat. Ahe came inside and ask if I had opened my whiskey shipment. I has so i gave her a shot of each. I think hey may have not been her favorite but she drank them all. She told me she had woken up lonely so I guess a visit was in order.
We are leaving tomorrow for an overnight trip to Oregon. 7 hour drive there and back. We are going to look at yurts. Should be fun. But someone needs to watchbthe animals. So we called Isabella. She is a childhood friend of my daughters. Anyhow, she came by today and picked up the keys and got full instructions. On dogs and cats. She mostly already knew. She has watched them before.
We are leaving at in a few. Going up to Folsom for dinner at a clients restaurant, called Prohibition Wine Lounge. I expect the best. It is a wine bar and they have a couple thousand bottles to choose from. And dinner. Only the best. We just stopped for gas. Got back on the freeway and traffic is not moving. Yay. We are gonna pick up Bob and Renee on the way to Folsom. Bobs son Chris is coming along too. They dont want to drive. Last time we went there with them, they both ended up blind drunk. One uber’d home alone. The other went with us. And they live together. This time the first thing bob said was “are you driving?” Thinking ahead.
The dinner was beautiful and they had an event of some sort going on. They made 300 lbs of paella which served well as our appetizer. Then Janoah, the owner, brought us a bottle of nice French red. Which was followed by three more in succession. Couple Cabs and a Zin. Very nice wine. We had a spread of appetizers and dinner. I had a flatiron steak as did bob chris had clams cant recall what everyon else had. Great evening, nice people, good friends. No room for dessert.
Fortunately, I had spent alot of time with Janoah during his “corporate takeover attempt” by his partners. He won. I was the consigliere of sorts. So dinner was free. Nice payback. I do love a freebie.
Fortunately Emily held back on wine consumption and was able to drive back to bob’s and drop them off. We then went home. I felt kinda off and very sleepy. Glad she is driving.
We went straight ro bed. It was midnite.