From Finn’s Forest #29 #writingcommunity #authorlife #nature #reading

I had a mix-up with my book reviews post this month. I forgot to reschedule my post, so it didn’t fall when I was on vacation. That’s why it took me a week to respond! Sorry about that.

Had a great break though! We had a wonderful family Easter celebration that included an egg hunt on the Magical Trail. That did take some cleanup with all the trees we had down from the storm in February, but we got it done. We took a nice drive and walked the next day, and then ended up babysitting the youngest granddaughters that night. So we brought them to the mall, which is their favorite place to go now.

The next day, we went on a day trip to San Francisco to go to the California Academy of Science. It’s been a while, but always been a favorite place of mine to visit. I enjoyed the butterflies and aquarium as always, plus the African area with the penguins. Next, we headed over to the De Young Museum to see the special exhibit of Monet/Venice. Really enjoyed that too, plus exploring other areas. We didn’t get to end the day with the Japanese Tea Garden because they were closed, but we did have a nice picnic dinner and watch the sunset at the beach. Couldn’t have asked for a better day.

We also fit in seeing our daughter’s dance show, going to see Project Hail Mary, and relaxing. One day, we played Clue and watched the Artemis land. In between all of that were storms that gave us lots of rain, thunder, and lightning, and oddly enough, five inches or so of snow. Quite a mixture of weather from beautiful, warm, hot, even days to snow. We did find, through that rain, that there was a bit of damage to the roof when the tree fell that we’d missed. Not anything really big, but there is a hole that Jeff put some metal on the hole to stop the leak until we can get it fixed.

Looking forward to more rain and maybe another thunderstorm. Here’s a short video I took during one of the storms. It happens at 16 seconds in. I am not good at editing videos.

Now, for the pictures!