Off to Italy

First school pic: C on left, J on right

For those of you interested in seeing the wall art of your city or area, here's a great web-site for you, put together by LB (some of the pics of Emeryville supplied by THB). It includes maps so you can seek them out in person. 

 

Murals of the East Bay   

Now back to pics of note:

The Big Heads at A's games have been on hiatus; finally a big crowd of 40K bring Rickey home a winner 

The Big Heads are back the next day, Eck comes home the winner in front of 31K

The next game was A's Hall of Fame inductee celebration

Yes, the A's believe in truth in branding: the latest give away is Three Up, Three Down

Shozo Michikawa teapot: the opposite of big

Cork flooring at beach is replaced and expanded; no more red blotch on carpet

Half of All Eyes makes it to the courtyard at the beach, the bottom half is in the garage

THB gets the front end, part of the Monterey Dunes DURT restoration crew

Planters in courtyard are doing exceedingly well in new space on deck near front door

The big car show week was on in Monterey, Porsche claimed a spot right outside our fave pastry/pizza spot, Alta

The "Pelco" Building, remodel on Bay side of loft, is completed 

J "flies" like a hawk on an exhibit at Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek: worth a visit

THB and J before 7am (J is the one wearing headphones)

Book Review

The School For Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan (novel): A divorced mother of a toddler leaves her daughter alone for several hours, the police are called and she ends up losing custody and ordered by the court to attend a year-long course with a bunch of other negligent mothers (fathers are in another institute) in an isolated former college. Can bad mothers be reformed? Can behavioral and talk therapy work? Can the reader get past the unlikelihood of a “doll” taking the place of a real child? THB hopes you can…and read the NYT article to see how this bestselling book by a female writer of color in her 40s with no book publishing experience came to fruition, during a pandemic no less.

Good Mothers