meet the grandboy

Here is Sam, the oldest grand kid, and his wonderful wife, Margot. They live
in Pittsburgh, PA, so we did the "let's go down to the ocean" sightseeing
trip yesterday. Lunch at Park Chalet after driving (and getting lost for the
445th time) through Golden Gate Park. This all-day route includes both of
MY museums, Land's End and then on down to Pathetica. Beautiful
sunshine time of year here and I wisely asked Sam to drive and that made
all four of us much more relaxed and happy. Now they head to Sonoma
to test the wine for a few days.

meriel, mary, mas and sam

Sam

We three old friends had lunch yesterday at Meriel's home in San Leandro.
It had been a few years, but of course it didn't seem like more than a week
since we'd been together. Meriel loves terriers and over the years she has
had just the BEST dogs (three that I know of) and probably that has more
to do with how she treats and trains them than it says of the dogs (all
"rescue dogs", by the way). Anyway, she cooked a delicious lunch and
we had a fine time catching up with each others' lives and discussing the
political situation. Of course we are all old lefties, so that helps, doesn't it?