Home sweet home

Wow, I've been lagging on the posts. I'm still recovering from my California trip- but more on that in the next post. I'll give some detail about the activities (hanging in Santa Cruz, mud bathing in Calistoga and seeing old friends in Berkeley) later, since it'll take longer than I have. Besides, I don't have any pictures yet- and what's a story without pictures.

But I did want to comment on the coming home. I got home kinda late on Sunday and took the day off yesterday to acclimate back to this coast. I was really happy to get out and run around a little bit, and was struck by the sheer force of nature that's happening. I'm gone for a week and suddenly the trees all have leaves, the lilacs are blooming and it's like winter never even happened. Amazing.

Then I cantered over to my car and saw the impact of nature on my white car that I had stupidly left under a tree. It was covered with tree and bird droppings. Yick. So instead of rushing to the gym I rushed to the car wash and spent almost $10 in that self-wash section scrubbing the bejeezus out of that car. Stupid nature.