Alameda

Today Greg and I are trying to get everything in place for our next leg of the trip, New England.
But, right now we are canning. Greg is sterilizing jars so we can put up some pickles and dillybeans for Jeanine and Adam from the Farmers Market. Yum, Greg is really good at this stuff. Another reason why I married him.
We had a great bbq on Sunday with some old friends and sat on the deck enjoying sunshine and good food. Adam had acquired some beef from the UCDavis meat lab, I guess they learn all aspects of farming out there :) I heard it was delicious!
Midway through the bbq a neighbor shouted and waved to us...very friendly, but seemed pretty wasted. Around dusk we looked over and saw him take his shirt off and jump into the estuary with just his sweatpants. I would say he was 500 pounds and not a good swimmer. The water was moving pretty quickly and he did manage to float across to the other side pretty smoothly. Then, he got stuck. He was unable to get out and it was quite a scene with his friends trying to figure out where he was and then the drawbridge operator called the police to make things more exciting. The last we saw of him he was being swept downstream by the current...
Tonight, we leave for Massachusetts. We are going to fly into Logan (Boston) and then hop on a bus for Woods Hole, then catch the ferry to Matha's Vineyard (misspelled on purpose) to stay with Krishana on her flower and vegetable farm.