Robert was happy to participate in the 69th annual El Toro Stampede sailboat regatta today at the Richmond Yacht Club.  The El Toro boat was invented there, and there have been kids and others sailing them for a long time.

Today the Richmond club also hosted the Nationals for the U20 boats.  Ooooh.  Robert will take one of those.  Much easier on the knees..

Robert is proud to say that he is making continuous improvement with his sailboat racing skills.  In today’s first race, he failed to finish.  In the second race, he came in last.  That’s improvement!

He treated himself to a San Pelligrino soda after it was all over.  Prickly pear and orange.  Ummm.

The Pierces were in Larkspur today attending the birthday celebration of Mattias and Annika Gron!  They are 4!

Last night we celebrated our good friend Tony Hoff’s 60th birthday here at the Meadows! He sure has a lot of good friends. We love him lots.

Waning days of summer still allow some after dinner b-ball at the Meadows.

Robert, Rory and Cadie went camping this weekend at Fallen Leaf Lake near Tahoe. Jakob and Caroline Gron joined in the fun. Actually, it was a fishing trip.  Rory caught one (two-incher).

Did you know that Lake Tahoe holds 38 trillion gallons of water? Enough to cover the entire state with 14 inches of water?

Yesterday the Pierces were happy to host Marjorie Swanson and her son Peter for dinner and discussion.  And John came too. Marjorie came out from Minnesota for a visit! She is the cousin  of John Schwirtz (his father’s sister’s daughter).

Wow, Robert really likes these lessons on California school funding.

Prop 13, Prop 98, LCFF, Basic Aid funding, etc.  All explained in simple English.

http://ed100.org/support/

Ugh.

Robert says, watch this.  All of it. Really.  It is good for you.

Mira’s favorite.

Say what you might, but 39 million views can’t be denied.