December 24 - Gifts



Christmas Eve Celebration with


Harriet, Megan, Tisha, and Claire --



a delightful time,


ending with


a screening of The Polar Express (2004).


Earlier,


mail


out


family


Christmas


cards


(OK, more than a little late),


and


proceed


to


the


22nd


Inner Coast Range North Walk,


continuing on Yolo County 87,


from


Dog Bark Ranch,


to 



the


road's


intersection


with


25,


then


further


exploring to the


expedient-for-now


western end


of the latter


(an isolated muddy bridge...


no attempt to cross in this season, given recent experiences),


returning


via


a


grid


of


86A


North's


brown and


green fields,


23


West,


86


North,


21A and 16 East,


and


505


South


back


to


Solano --


for spaghetti dinner and festivities. 


Quite late, finish composition of 24 Tone Preludes: III. Plane Winds (5 pages total), on this 49th day of fall conditions, high 53 (51 in Winters)...