The city of bicycles: we're on the campus of UCDavis
Mike and Dad outside Bainer Hall where Mike has his lab and office.
Mike is getting his doctorate in materials science.
Mike explains his project: how lipids move at the molecular level. Dick listens intently, I take pictures.
The poster is from a presentation Mike made at a conference in New York.
On to the farmer's market in a downtown park.
Families gather for the evening meal.
And so do we. Mike and Nicole are getting married in Aspen CO on September 26. It was fun to catch up on each other's lives after a long separation!
Good news! Lucy loved the the picnic food I left in the refrig for them: shrimp cucumber sandwiches, pasta salad, and raspberry jam-filled cookies. She told me later that evening that she didn't think she would like it at first, but ate the entire sandwich with enthusiasm. Am I stretching her food boundaries?
Ahh, a couple of beers and a foot rub in the garage.
Lucy and Jim join us a bit later. Dick gets teased for his husbandly good need. As everyone knows, Jim is a big kidder.
Please note, here Jim is trying to flip me off, but he can only come up with a limp finger.
Dick is pretty good at dishing it back. They both think they're pretty funny.
We went for a walk around the ponds. Over the tracks to lots of dry grass and a shrunken pond
When I told Dick I've always like the color and shape of this weed, he told me a story from his childhood. When roaming the local fields, he and his friends called it "Indian tobacco." They would cut a 3"-or-so length from the lower stalk and light it up.
Later, a few hours with Sophia so Thais could work from home.
Helping our at Jim and Lucy's. Dick
The city of bicycles: we're on the campus of UCDavis
Mike and Dad outside Bainer Hall where Mike has his lab and office.
Mike is getting his doctorate in materials science.
Mike explains his project: how lipids move at the molecular level. Dick listens intently, I take pictures.
The poster is from a presentation Mike made at a conference in New York.
On to the farmer's market in a downtown park.
Families gather for the evening meal.
And so do we. Mike and Nicole are getting married in Aspen CO on September 26. It was fun to catch up on each other's lives after a long separation!
After looking up the peso to dollar exchange rate on the computer, Dick grabs the calculator to figure out how much we won't have to pay Singlar in Guaymas to put our boat back in the water.
"Arlete! If the peso goes to 15:1 by the end of the year, we're going to save $400!"
