If you had visited my door you would have seen just this note. The party was in the clubhouse.

One of the ground rules for getting the keys to the clubhouse is that you have to promise to do nothing political. We didn't. However, I forgot to take a picture of Brenda, so this is one from a set of pictures I never got around to putting on my website. There was also NOTHING POLITICAL about the pizza she brought. It's also just a coincidence that it was yummy.

 

People enjoyed the ambiance. At some point somebody picked up that tabloid I left on the table and started laughing out loud about what it had to say. Then it got passed around, and lots of laughter ensued.

  

I asked everybody to blow up one balloon. Most did.

That yellow stuff Andrea is pouring into a bowl was organic blond water melon. It tasted a lot like the red stuff I'm used to, and had the same texture. I forgot to ask Honey if it was green on the outside like the standard supermarket ones are.

  

Samantha was the star of the show. She was cute, angelic, and she liked having her picture taken.

  

  

They surprised me with a cake. Special thanks to Samantha for taking these pictures. I had to cut the cake.



After a lot of people had left, the six of us sat around and talked for a while. The TDM talked about seeing John Geramendi earlier in the day on Rough And Ready Island (near Stockton, in the Sacramento River Delta). The Insurance Commissioner had said that if global warming raises sea level just a foot or so, it will make the water around the island (he pointed to it) too brackish to drink. He said that would have huge consequences for millions of Californians in the Bay Area that draw their drinking water from the delta.

  

We spent the last half hour or so I had the room cleaning up and carting everything back to my place. When I got them home I hung the balloons in my living room. I'm wondering how long they will last...