B: Spring....it's actually a season

Not to rub it in for our friends in the Pacific Northwest and other temperate climates, but down here in mediteranean Sacramento : ) it is spring.  Right now it is pleasant....78 degrees...low humidity...getting ready to grill some hand ground burgers tonight

Sure it will be 100 soon enough, and nothing can make Sacramento not Sacramento, but right now things are pretty fucking great

B: Guiding Lights

About 6 months ago our Internet friend Rob set your friends here at Cumulus up on a date with some strangers. It was a bit weird and very 21st century for us, but it worked out great! We met some new friends (A and M) and had a new bond with Rob.



Tonight (just now) we finally met out blog friend Rob. He was exactly what we both expected. A very nice and personable guy. A geologist with a familiar reference point and common sense of humor. I know this is virtually a common place thing now, but I am still amazed to have made a virtual friend from Atlanta and to meet them in real life here in Sacramento. It is weird and magical.



Congratulations Rob on your decision to run 2 century ultra marathons, followed by an Iron man race all in a single pair of awesome socks!!!! We will so be there to support you!

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Another reason to like Sacramento… Free trees! All you have to do is call up the county and a tree guy will come out to your house and tell you where you have room for more trees. Then you choose from a list and they bring the trees to your house! (Well supposedly they bring the trees. We’re still waiting for them.) Way cool. We’re expecting two lavender crepe myrtles. (I didn't know what crepe myrtles either until we moved here and saw them everywhere, and realized that we totally had to have one.) Here's a picture of one:

Pretty, no?

We’ve also been working doing a bunch of cleanup from the summer season. B got up on the roof last weekend and hacked down a whole bunch of tree while I stayed down on the ground and cleaned up our tomatoes and weeds. I also got to pull out a bunch of little miniature trees that have been sprouting up, which while exhausting, was satisfying too.

did you steal my sunshine?

Apparently we don't have summer here in CA anymore, we've got Fire Season. Sat afternoon started to smell a little smokey, and by Sunday evening there was a distinct haze in the air - I got on the internets to see what was afoot, and apparently all of northern Cal is on fire. Today smells a bit better but the sun is looking eerie and orange. It'll make for a good sunset, that's for sure.

Reason #576 why I love B:

Sorry for the crappy photo, but it's our new dishwasher! And it's in our kitchen! And it works! I'd oddly enough gotten used to our nice new kitchen appliances hanging out in our garage, not being used. But our old dishwasher kept breaking and not getting things clean and being absurdly loud, so B got fed up last weekend and decided to just install the new one now instead of waiting for the entire kitchen remodel. One afternoon and only minor amounts of cursing later, we have a pretty new Bosch that is crazy quiet. Next step: cabinets.

FAQs

So we're sitting here on a perfectly fine Saturday evening, stuck inside our house trying to ignore the crappy band playing at our neighbors house. It wouldn't make us so mad, except that they blast their crappy music every single weekend evening, and it really puts a drag on sitting outside on our porch. This crappy band is pretty much the last straw.

Looking around for the number to call for a noise complaint, we happened upon the Sacramento County FAQ page. Most of the questions were those that one might expect (my car was broken into, who do I call? or my car was towed, how can I get it back?). One caught my eye though: "Someone tried to burn my car last night. Who do I call?"

Seriously? How frequent does that come up such that you put it on your FAQ page? Gotta love this town.