Nov 19 2021
Cheers
Here’s to you!
Our favorite local bar closes for about three weeks every October. In the past, they used to do delightful things like visit vineyards in Tuscany or France, coming home with wonderful memories and stories. This year, they still closed, though with no trips abroad. We were still glad when they reopened, though, and Megan and I met up there to celebrate that and the beginning of the weekend.
The drink shown above is called “Raspberry Gin Buck”, and after you take a picture of it, you mix it up with a spoon. It’s delicious, not too sweet, and garnished with a red carnation. When I showed the picture above to a friend, he said, “That special moment when your drink is prettier than the view!”
The view is definitely pretty:
No matter how long I live here – and I hope I never have to move – I will never stop being in awe of the beauty around me. It kind of amazes me that this is essentially my back yard. Every day when I drive to work, it’s past ancient redwoods and beside the beautiful, ever-changing ocean, and I never get tired of the view. Every day, there is something to delight me, whether it’s a fishing boat setting out to sea:
or the light of the setting sun on an old barn on the Ridge:
or that first view of the ocean:
There’s always something new, and something beautiful. I feel so lucky to live here.
A YEAR AGO: John’s kittens were growing up.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Thinking about some regrets.
TEN YEARS AGO: An adventurous evening.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: Home improvement is never easy.
TWENTY YEARS AGO: Happiness is a pile of books. This is still true.
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