Hard to believe that we are halfway through December already! The house is all decorated and we are about ready to head to Florida for Christmas. The past couple of weeks have been very busy with lots of playing of gigs in Santa Barbara and Torrance. I’m playing several Christmas concerts at Grace Community Church this week, which happily is close to our house. This is my last week of teaching and playing, and then I fly to Jacksonville on Monday, December 21. I should arrive just in time for Martinis and Messiah! Steven leaves the 22nd and is going straight to see his family in Vero Beach. My parents will drive me down to Vero and visit for a couple days after Christmas day. It has been raining really hard all last week, and here were some clouds hanging over the mountains on our walk this morning:

Apollo doesn’t like wearing clothes, but it’s so cold in the morning now (40 ish degrees) that I make him wear a sweatshirt. Here he is in his Stetson hoodie!