Dad watching his birthday candle slowly lean from the hot bread pudding.

We bought a Prius Prime plug-in hybrid. We don't export watts to PG&E anymore - we use our unused solar production to charge this baby.

Andrew showed off some nifty focaccia when we went up to celebrate his birthday. You can see his crown from the party resting on his throne.

We took a trip to the monkey islands in Lake Gatun

We really enjoyed our trip to Costa Rica and Panama. Click below for the full album

Our big tree got a haircut

We tried a new recipe - Chicken With Burst Tomato Sauce. It came out great.

I made gluwein for New Years Day.

Before Tammy and Andrew headed back home after Christmas, we strolled around Healdsburg Plaza, which was all decked out.

Ben sent Jan a Christmas card in the shape of glasses. She had to try it on.

Andrew and Robin enjoying Christmas

Tammy opening a present

We were at half strength this Christmas. Wendy and co were sick, and Jan was recuperating.

Our Thanksgiving table this year

What a beautiful day, and it's quite a relief after three days of hard rain, and flooding.

The view outside our dining room window, November 23rd, 2024

The weather was breathtaking on our hike at Foothill Regional Park today.

We made an old favorite pizza - prosciutto, chevre, pecans, apples, and arugula. Yum!

Jan came over for another masterpiece by Robin.

Steve and Robin above Prizren, Kosovo. Check out the album of Albania and Kosovo.

Our neighborhood is crazy for Halloween, and the first displays to go up went up on Labor Day!

Sunset as seen from the new walkway from Avenue U, Seaside, Oregon

Tammy and Andrew came to visit us in Seaside. For the first time in a long while, we toured Astoria on foot. Pictured: Flavel House

Once again Michelle and John Simmer came to the cottage for another gourmet cook-off.

Dick and Midori came to visit the cottage this summer.

This summer, we waded along the beach a dozen times. The water was warmer this year than we ever remember.

Our neighbor's kid mashed Robin's Solara. It took weeks to get repaired. In fact the job got done just before we returned home.

We stopped in Eureka on the way up to Seaside. Always happy to check in on Andrew and Tammy.

This is typical Robin - she overheard a woman admiring her Nordic Trekking poles, and immediately caught up with her and gave her an extra pair.

The Healdsburg Ukulele Club played for the local farm team - The Healdsburg Prunepackers

We helped Kaia celebrate her promotion to middle school. She showed us her medal.

The Healdsburg Ukulele Club played the Plaza on Sunday, May 26th. We played a mostly Beatles set to polite applause.

Our Queen Anne cherry tree is pumping so much we invited the 4 Ks, Dad and Midori over to pick. Our child labor worked hard.

We enjoyed a day at Kruse Rhododendron State Natural Reserve.

Robin has started planting the herbs Tammy and Andrew gave her for her birthday. Check out the great labels, too.

We celebrated Tammy's birthday with a delicious lunch at Little Saint in Healdsburg.

We celebrated Tammy's birthday before she left for home.

Wendy recuperated here for months

Robin's birthday dinner was outside this year.

Susan gave Robin a heliconia for her birthday, and it goes perfectly in the entry way.

I tried out chacha in Georgia. Everybody and his brother in Georgia makes it. See below for the album from our visit to the Republic of Georgia

We enjoyed fine wine and interesting culture in Georgia and Armenia.

We enjoyed our return to Turkey in April '24. Click here for lots more.

Robin sitting down to enjoy a new favorite she made: Lemony Shrimp & Bean Stew

We had an Easter Brunch, complete with mimosas.

Robin spent a happy afternoon planting and feeding.

Suddenly, our Japanese Maple went boom!

It's now a birthday tradition. Dad gets 6 pounds of lemon drops.

We planted this olive tree we bought for bucks in our back yard in Corte Madera 11 years ago. It was snapped in half by a big buck, so we dug it up, potted it, and duct-taped it back together. Now, in Windsor, we got our first crop of olives. They are curing now.

Wendy is recuperating at our house after badly breaking her leg on the job.

Our kitchen table has become a nursery for garden herbs. That's Four Bean Chili in the foreground. The recipe can be found over in Recipes.

We all went on an expedition to Elk Grove to buy Wendy a car. She got a great deal, but it took all day.

We feasted at Thai Orchid for Andrew's Birthday.

Back to Kauai!

Not even eight months after our first roofing contractor tried to fix the garage leak it came back with the heavy rains, but our neighbor found a great roofer who promptly fixed it.

We had a great time in the Baltics, visiting Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

The clouds parted and the sun was setting on Mount Rainier as we went to get some groceries at the IGA in Packwood, Wash. The camera does no justice to Rainier - you just have to look.

We took the Silver Falls Loop Trail out of Ohanaprecosh Camp. It was just what the doctor ordered after the grueling hike yesterday.

We visited the Chihuly Garden And Glass Museum at Seattle Center yesterday. It was outstanding. We loved our trip to Pike Street Market too.

We returned to Morocco to see the places we missed in 1981.

Did I tell you we got to ride camels in the Sahara?

Check out the album from our Greenland Cruise.

Costa Rica '22

We had a great eight day getaway.

Robin in front of a massive sequoia on our fourth trip to Sequoia National Park.

We visited Sequoia National Park to get away. Click for the photo album.

In January, we took a cruise from San Juan Puerto Rico to Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, Sint Maartin, and St John, USVI.

We visited Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Bryce Canyon National Parks.

Grand Geyser, tallest predictable geyser on earth

After leaving Seaside in 2019, we visited the Canadian Rockies.

We visited Walla Walla with Jan and Raye.

Before going to Seaside in 2019, we stopped in at Crater Lake and Heppner, Oregon.

We took a great trip to snorkel off Molokai on our recent trip to Maui.

We visited Sequoia National Park in the snow.

We sailed on the Aranui V to the Tuamotus, Gambiers, Australs, and Pitcairn Islands.

Here's a video of our trip to Pitcairn Island, refuges of the Bounty Mutineers.

We spent a fun couple of weeks in Colombia.

We spent August up in Seaside, and visited Oysterville.

We went back to Africa in March of 2018, this time to Kruger National Park in South Africa, plus Lesotho, and Swaziland.

We went to Yosemite with Dick & Midori in February of 2018.

We spent a very happy week in Maui, celebrating my birthday.

We traveled everywhere in India in October of 2017.

We heartily enjoyed barging, bicycling, eating and drinking in France

We toured Death Valley, and the Utah National Parks.

We took a cruise around Cuba.

We took our first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. We visited Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibian, and South Africa.

Lake TahoeWe spent a few really good days hiking around Lake Tahoe. It's been years!

We visited Shasta, California (Gold Rush era county seat of Shasta Co.), Packer's Bay on Lake Shasta, and Castle Crags State Park.April is a good time to go.

We had always wanted to go to Borneo, so we visited the Malaysian part of it.

We visited Kristin and her kids on the Big Island, right after Christmas. The kids were great sports about the 8 mile hike we put them through.

Dad and Midori joined us on a cruise from Barcelona to Dubai

We spent the last few days of July in Vancouver and Vancouver Island. We really enjoyed museums and restaurants of Vancouver, hiking the Pacific Rim National Park Preserve trails near Uclulet, and Afternoon Tea at the Empress Hotel.

We spent almost three weeks in Poland, visiting Warsaw, Krakow, and many places in between. I'll never drink Russian vodka again.

For six days, we stayed in Kihei, and then for the final three nights, we stayed in Lahaina. We got in some whale watching, fine dining, good hikes, and lots of snorkeling.

We spent ten days in Iceland, in the depths of winter, chasing the northern lights, hiking, snow shoeing, sampling the local fare. Steve snorkeled the Silfra Fissure in Thingvellir National Park - truly unforgettable. And cold...

We took an unforgettable trip on the Aranui to the Tuamotus and the Marquesas Islands.

We spent another happy week in Yosemite.

We explored New Zealand by bus and ferry.

Everyone went with us to Tuscany in Italy.

We thoroughly enjoyed Vietnam and Cambodia.

We took Dad and Midori on a private cruise from Haarlem, Netherlands to Brussels, Belgium.

We visited Eastern Germany, finishing in Berlin for New Years.

Bhutan blew us away.

Thanks to Andrews flight privileges, we got to spend a couple of weeks in Sydney, Australia.

We took a cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg, Russia.