Day 65

Pretty quiet Saturday. Tracy and the baby are off at the Marriott all day, and the rest of us are generally taking it quite easy. Matt and Jamie made a run to the Wine Seller (always fun!). I guess we were inspired by last night's Hess Collection tasting. No Regusci wine this time, but we managed to find some other good stuff and get introduced to some new recommendations to try. Jamie did his first Parlor Car Chat for the SLO Railroad Museum (virtual fireside chat about the train trip from SLO to Santa Barbara). 52 folks were there. Dinner was from Fuji Mountain (in Monument), yum! Everyone crashed early (not sure about the boys who may have stayed up a while). No movies (well, Nana and Papa watched a couple so-so movies falling to sleep).

What Tracy can do in a day with just herself and the baby at the Marriott.

A screen capture from Jamie's Parlor Car Chat.

Fuji Mountain dinner!

Day 64

The three Lodge dwellers came home today as did Matt and Matteo. Tracy and the baby took Matt and Matteo's place at the Marriott for a couple days. The Flying Horse Club did the coolest winemaker dinner via Zoom. We picked up our meal just beforehand (filet mignon and all the trimmings) and then in the comfort of our home watched and listened to the Club's Food and Beverage Director and the winemaker from the Hess Collection in Napa Valley. All around greatness; a few photos here.

The "old" machine is now on the Foster side.

And here's the new one on the Regusci side.

The Club had a Dinner with a Winemaker via Zoom.
Hess Collection wines from Napa Valley, including the winemaker live.

The cherry tomatoes have started!

Day 63

The three of us, Nana, Papa, and Fina, were at the club lodge all day. Don't know much about the goings on at home or at the Marriott. We started with breakfast at the French Kitchen: queenets and green chili quiche. The queenets are very popular at the French Kitchen and I could find almost zero info about them. They are super good (rich, sweet), come in various flavors (we had cinnamon cream), and have a hard glaze on them (like the top of a crème brûlée, but thinner). Wow! It was teriyaki night from the Club, Fina was quite excited. Tonight's movies (at the Lodge), both Hallmark: Kiss at Pine Lake and Time for You to Come Home for Christmas.

Jamie started reading Dennis Prager's new book, The Rational Bible: Genesis. So far, so good! It's actually the second book he's done in this series; Exodus was first. He did Exodus first because it contains what he thinks is the single most important element in the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament), the Ten Commandments.

The French Kitchen. With drone delivery!

Stormy evening at the Flying Horse Lodge.

The new coffee machine arrived at home!

Dancing for joy at Briargate. Nana and Fina got mani-pedis.

A Tower of Queenets from the French Kitchen.

Day 62

All hell broke loose. Some of us ventured out for real, like to a hotel. Just for a change of pace. Nana and Papa were to have flown to California today, but instead they traveled exactly one mile to the Flying Horse Lodge for a couple nights. Fina's right next door adjoining. Matt and Matteo are at the new Marriott down the street, and Tracy goes there in a couple days. The yard project is wrapping up. They come back Friday or Monday for the last plantings. Tracy was headed to Chick-fil-A with the five littlest when we left the birthday party. Nana and Papa's movies tonight: The Mask and Collision (2013).

Celebrate we did!

Some of the Flying Horse Lodge and Steakhouse.

Maybe THIS will be the last batch of masks.

Fina makes herself at home.

Day 61

Start of the online school week. This is the last week for the twins. We celebrated Matt's birthday which mainly consisted of a favorite meal: chicken piccata, wine lover's rice, ceasar salad, garlic bread, and lava cake (see Recipes folder). Tonight's movie: The Martian.

Making the Lava Cake.

New dress. Pretty cool.

The olders are great teacher/coaches for the youngers.

Second take at Jamie's scene in Voices Beyond the Veil.

Day 60

Day 60! Need we say more? Fina and Nana made all kinds of progress on their quilt. PF Chang in Review for dinner, and Eggos. Tonight's movie: Ocean's Thirteen.

Nana and Fina's latest quilt project.

Nana and Papa had a Zoom gathering with the California clan for the
twin's upcoming birthday.  We gave them Twenty Questions to figure out
what was being delivered tomorrow. They got it in four. Aerospace engineer
Dad says he's going to have them assemble it. Well, help, at least.