can't be.....more food?

By late yesterday the group increased to nineteen. I've heard between ten and twelve or fourteen are expected today.

Pat and Marilyn bought pizza for the gang for dinner last night, thank you both.

We had fruit, carrot cake, cherry cobbler, and cookies for dessert. Actually, all of these goodies were for second dessert. The candy-ice cream store in town has a special Tuesday and Thursday from five to seven. A very delicious, very large, scoop of ice cream for a dollar. We finished the pizza at six thirty, seven of us walked, briskly, down to the store for goodies. Wanda had pistachio, I had cherry swirl. 

Wanda and I got up at five thirty this morning. The sun was up, the morning looked beautiful and we took off. Last year we found a nice walking trail about six miles out of town. I'm not sure if they changed the road or we forgot where it was. We drove ten miles before coming to the conclusion we passed the parking area for trails. We turned back to look again and found it this time.

Salamanders and mosquito's as well as a nice hiking trail occupied our time for a couple of hours. This was the third year we have walked the trail. This time we made it four miles, two out and two back. We've increased the distance every year. I expect we will be too old to walk before we make the end.

Once we returned from the salamander hike and cleaned up, we ate. Then we took a walk downtown. Wanda got a nice set of earnings, I didn't get a hat. I didn't want to spend forty eight dollars on a ten dollar hat. it was a nice walk, I took some pictures we came back to the motel and ate, again.

Right now at five after one there are people scattered all over Nevada City and it's environs. I'm sitting at one the picnic tables sharing it with, cherries, cinnamon rolls, rum cake, strawberries, crab dip, crackers, ham, raspberry pie, chicken, green salad, meatballs, various cheeses, wine, several different cookie types, cold pizza and something I'm sure I missed.

A group of folks just got back from a visit to the longest covered bridge in the world. I'm trying to count the number of people here but they will not stand still long enough. We had some unexpected visitors. Sha and Patrick live down in the Santa Cruz area and Debbie and Jeff live in New Jersey.

How someone can keep something like this quiet for nine months with this group is remarkable.

Some people will just be here for the night tonight, so, we'll take the group picture before dinner. Then, I can count the number of people here, maybe.

More tomorrow.