Romy

Making juice.

Romy

We had Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday this year. My mom cooked a really good turkey that was organic and free range from Sonoma County, with wild rice stuffing. I made two sides of quinoa and roasted squash, and collard greens with red cabbage. It was so good!

Romy & Mom & Nicole & Marcel & Jenn

Tonight we tried Beer Revolution for the first time, a small bar in Oakland that serves microbrewed beer from all over the Bay Area and California.

Romy

Yay! The La Pavoni is working again and making espresso better than ever!

Nicole & Mom & Jenn

Tonight we went out to the Samovar Tea Lounge and had traditional black Russian tea service, Masala Chai Tea (Indian) and some Tumeric Spiced Tea (also Indian). They had really good tea.

Jenn & Romy

After breaking the brass water tube, we went to a small La Pavoni shop called Thomas E Cara, in San Francisco, to get a new one. Woah! All his espresso machines were so shiny and nice!

Jenn

Today the gaskets and rebuild parts for the La Pavoni came in the mail. I rebuilt the group but couldn't get one of the gaskets to sit. So I asked Romy to jam it in. . .

Romy

Romy got the gasket to sit right, but we broke the brass water tube in the process! Oh no!

Jenn

Ugh. . . back to work! Its never ending!

Jenn & Romy

Today, for my birthday, we went road biking in the delta. We started in the morning in Rio Vista, and then biked along the dikes all the way to Locke where we had late lunch in the old chinatown! Blast from the past!

Jenn & Nicole & Marcel & Romy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Tonight we went out to Jupiter in Berkeley to celebrate.

Romy

The last day of the beard!!! The experiment is over.

Romy & Jenn

Today we voted!

Jenn

Making a veggie wrap with mixed greens from our tiny backyard garden! Wooo hoo! We grew something edible!

Romy

The juice today had crazy swirl colors!

Romy & Marcel & Nicole

Nicole and Marcel are installing the big skylight in their living room roof. We helped them put it in. The hole in the roof looked so surreal!

Jenn

My LaPavoni espresso maker is gonna need a rebuild!

Romy

Such a cute little bottle!

Romy

Today is all about making faces!

Jenn

Today I am learning how to use PETSc. It's supposed to compile with c++ code but it's not working on my cygwin set-up. Grrrrrrr! Tomorrow I will try installing it on linux.

Romy

Making juice this morning! Romy stole my green fleece!