Bungalow 313 in Sonoma...

In the afternoon (Wed, 10/12) we finished up our Napa tour and headed a bit west to our place in Sonoma. It was really cute and nice with a great kitchen and our own private sitting area outside.  We settled in and took a walk around the Sonoma town square.  There, we stopped by the Roche winery tasting room.  About ten years ago, when we took the kids with us to San Francisco, Brent found a winery in Sonoma that offered horse rides through their vineyards.  That was just the thing for us since Rose and Fred were the proud owners and riders of our mulish horse, Cupid, at the time...and it was lovely.  Brent's horse wanted to stop and eat grapes constantly, but we expect things like that out of Brent's steeds.  We had a great time.  Afterwards, Brent and I tasted their wines and liked them so much that we joined their club and have been getting a couple of bottles delivered every 3 months ever since. Anyhow, since then, we get the wines along with their news letters.  They no longer ride horses in the vineyards.  Maybe the horses, with less attentive riders, ate too many grapes.  I knew they had opened the tasting room on the square, and had read about events they had for members, that given our life in TN, I never anticipated being able to attend.  But, there we were!!!  So, as members, we stopped by each evening around 5, for our "free" glass of wine in their courtyard!  Cool!

After a restful night in a comfy bed (have to say the bed in Trinidad had been a rather wiry, uncomfortable affair!!!) I look out the window onto the next rooftop...and there is Mr. Fox.  I tell Brent.  Mr. City Boy says, "No.  That's a cat!"  I reply, "Well, it's a Jewish one then..." as I head down the stairs to make coffee!!!  Needless to say....a few zillion pictures later....he agrees...it's a fox!!! - c