This year I received an unusual gift from BIL Bengie. I don’t know that I’ll keep this puppy as he’s kinda messy. Every time I use him I have to wipe his butt then reinsert his buttplug. It just seems… you know.
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Christmas 2023
Our Christmas gatherings are getting quite large. It was so nice to see everyone laugh and over eat. Thanks to Sandy for the additional photos.
Neighbors Holiday Happy Hour but more like Dinner
Hopefully a new tradition is born. Unfortunately our small dining room limited the guest list. Thanks to Sandy, Alan & Tom for the additional photos.
AlaMo Dinner
We started a tradition of having dinner with Alan & Mona about this time last year. So this year we hosted with a steak meal. Thanks to Sandy for the photos.
Thanksgiving 2023
This year we invaded the Yuen house. Sandy made a burrata appetizer and lumpia. I made baguettes and a butternut squash cheesecake. As usual I didn’t take enough photos. Thanks to Sandy for the additional photos.
Oakland Dinner
Seems like years since we have all been together. Thanks to Jim for the photos.
American Century Plant
While on a morning walk I snapped a quick photo of this American Century Plant that must have been 20 feet tall. The intention was to come back during sunset. Well sunset wasn’t very good.
Sunrise Stroll
The sunrise looked promising on my morning walk so I ran out.
Smoking Brisket Island
Tom offered up a brisket that he didn’t have time to cook. I agreed thinking it was gonna be a flat. To my surprise it was a whole brisket, 11 lbs of beef! It was too big for my dutch oven so I cut it in half thinking I was going to do one in …
Mothra
I was alerted to a very large Humming Bird Moth during happy hour, so I snapped a quick photo with my phone. I then brought it home and was able to properly photograph it, but in my old age I got lazy and didn’t do a focus stack.