Monday, December 31, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 12.31.2012
I found a cool rock!

Romy

Romy 12.31.2012
Traveling between the Fish Lake Valley and going to Monitor Valley in Nevada, with Blake and Shelby in their Vanagon.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Romy & Jenn

Jenn Romy 12.30.2012
Cooking up some creamed corn, mushroom, lemongrass, and apple chicken sausage soup for dinner before we take a dip in the Fish Lake Valley Hot Well pool, in west-central Nevada.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 12.29.2012
Snowshoeing from Hilltop to Crab Cooker, going hot spring hunting.

Romy

Romy 12.29.2012
Waking up nice and toasty in the bus after camping by Hilltop Hot Spring outside of Mammoth Lakes. Our propane furnace kept it 50 degree F inside while it was only 10F outside!

Friday, December 28, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Romy Jenn 12.28.2012
We are on our way to camp with Bubbles in the mountains with our friends Blake & Shelby, who have a VW Vanagon.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Romy

Romy 12.26.2012
Romy perusing the internet.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Jenn, Romy, Nicole, & Marcel

Jenn Romy 12.24.2012
This picture wasn't very well positioned. We had Christmas Eve dinner at N&M's and Marcel's parent were visiting.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Jenn Romy 12.23.2012
Crazy snow storm delayed us from going home (oh no how horrible!) so we snowshoed around Truckee while I-80 was closed.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Romy

Romy 12.22.2012
Trying on a pair of rollerblades at the Goodwill outside of Carson City.

Jenn

Middlegate, NV
Having a fresh hot coffee from the Middlegate Station Cafe and Bar, a historic Pony Express stop-over in central Nevada where Hwy 50 and the old Lincoln highway 722 join (near the shoe tree).

Friday, December 21, 2012

Romy

Paradise Valley / Little Humboldt Hot Spring
Relaxing in the super hot Paradise Valley Hot Springs where the ranch owners put a bright blue cow tub along the banks of the Little Humboldt river. The source looks like a mini Diana's Punch Bowl.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Jenn Romy 12.20.2012
We had Soldier Meadows Hot Springs entirely to ourselves. Only saw three ranchers in a truck hauling hay earlier today.

Jenn

Trego Hot Springs
Heating up our canned coffees at the Trego Hot Spring source - it's almost boiling hot! Our coffee warmed up in minutes! Almost too hot to drink!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Romy

Weird Rocks
After passing the Pyramid Lake Indian Res, we found these interesting rocks! I think they are some kind of spring deposit.

Jenn & Romy

Jenn Romy 12.19.2012
Busting out of Oakland for a trip well overdue to the desert!

Monday, December 17, 2012

Romy

Romy 12.17.2012
We took a walk through the hills this evening, but it was very muddy!

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Romy & Jenn & Marcel & Nicole

Jenn Romy 12.16.2012
N&M wanted to make sushi the day after we went out for sushi, so we had sushi again!

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 12.15.2012
To celebrate being done with my math class, we went out for sushi tonight! It was soooooo good!

Romy

Romy 12.15.2012
We went to the Geography department's map sale and got a bunch of old USGS quarter maps of California and Nevada!

Friday, December 14, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Romy Jenn 12.14.2012
Bike Party through downtown Oakland, then to the port, and then a party at Lake Merritt. It was fun! But super cold.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 12.13.2012
My crazy ass new leggings are here! I just love the colors and the weird face. I got cosmic ones too. . .

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Romy

Romy 12.12.2012
Pumping gas at Costco. Its all cloudy today and kind of chilly.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Romy & Jenn

Romy Jenn 12.11.2012
This afternoon we went mountain biking on some really awesome single track in Henry Coe State Park. It was so beautiful! We saw a newt on the trail :-)

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 12.4.2012
I am finally printing my poster for the AGU conference in San Francisco this week. I can't believe it's finally done! What a relief! I am presenting on Arctic sub-sea permafrost and methane hydrate stability in the Canadian Beaufort Sea.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.28.2012
Making juice.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.25.2012

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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!

Monday, November 19, 2012

Romy & Mom & Nicole & Marcel & Jenn

Romy Jenn 11.19.2012
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.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.18.2012
Yay! The La Pavoni is working again and making espresso better than ever!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Nicole & Mom & Jenn

Jenn Nicole 11.17.2012
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.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Jenn Romy 11.16.2012
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!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 11.15.2012
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 11.15.2012
Romy got the gasket to sit right, but we broke the brass water tube in the process! Oh no!

Monday, November 12, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 11.12.2012
Ugh. . . back to work! Its never ending!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Jenn & Romy

Jenn Romy 11.11.2012
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!

Friday, November 9, 2012

Jenn & Nicole & Marcel & Romy

Nicole Jenn 11.9.2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Tonight we went out to Jupiter in Berkeley to celebrate.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.7.2012
The last day of the beard!!! The experiment is over.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 11.5.2012
Making a veggie wrap with mixed greens from our tiny backyard garden! Wooo hoo! We grew something edible!

Romy

Romy 11.5.2012
The juice today had crazy swirl colors!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Romy & Marcel & Nicole

Romy 11.4.2012
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!

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 11.3.2012
My LaPavoni espresso maker is gonna need a rebuild!

Romy

Romy 11.3.2012
Such a cute little bottle!

Friday, November 2, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.2.2012
Today is all about making faces!

Jenn

Jenn 11.2.2012
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.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Romy

Romy 11.1.2012
Making juice this morning! Romy stole my green fleece!

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Romy & Jenn

Romy Jenn 10.31.2012
Tonight we are having veggie wraps with yogurt sauce and some Chimay! It's Halloween but we got home so late after teaching that most trick-or-treaters were gone, plus it rained! Booo!

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Jenn

Jenn 10.30.2012
Doing the dishes. So much to do!!

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Jenn & Romy & the Dingos!

Jenn Romy 10.28.2012
We got first place today! Here's the team and some friends - can you see the car behind us all!? From top left to right: Toby, Romy, Crusty, Raplh, Dave. Next row left to right: Liz, Jenn, Jim, Bob, Two-Tone & his dogs. And Carmen in the straw cowboy hat.