Monday, October 27, 2025
We notice this morning we can hear the sea lions from our room. Breakfast in the hotel at which the hot dish was Greek eggs. Packed. Checked out of the hotel. Stopped at Ferrell's for donuts to go. Got three large and five small pumpkins or squash at the Rodondi Farms pumpkin patch. Express car wash at a gas station in Colma. We stopped for lunch at Stonestown Galleria: Shake Shack for cheeseburgers and shakes. Then we got some groceries at Trader Joe's before driving home. No evidence of water damage following light rain while we were away. Unpacked. Processed snail mail. Updated anti-spam rules. Archived documents. House chores: vacuuming, trash management. Unloaded photos from my phone. Did some catching up on journaling. Dinner at home with Patrick: we shared prepared meals from Trader Joe's: one was mushroom linguine, and the other was chicken with wild rice and roasted vegetables. Hot water to drink. We looked at our trip photos on the television. Lately our new Kohler Artifacts kitchen faucet has had water spraying in odd directions. A few weeks ago I tried cleaning it but doing so did not resolve the problem. I cleaned it again today with dish soap and a new toothbrush and doing so did resolve the problem which seemed to have been caused by visible black specks of sediment. Later we watched video on Instagram and YouTube about the car that drove off the wharf at Santa Cruz on Saturday moments after Patrick and I had walked in that area. One person in the vehicle died. A dog found in the water nearby is alive and being cared for. A police investigation is in progress. We watched other YouTube videos. Dessert: we each had a chocolate cake donut from Ferrell's with hot milk. Patrick went to bed. I watched more YouTube until late.