Hello Peter!  I hope you had a pleasant trip back, and an easier time returning than coming out here.  That was amazing see you at Hendy Woods State Park; no one can believe it here.  My father tells that the Giants game after the one we saw together, when Lincecom was pitching, was miserable -- the Giants got only one run and were trounced; that's the kind of game that's no fun to watch, when your team is behind by a lot the whole time and has little chance of winning.  That should console Alex on not seeing Lincecum pitch! 
The next day after our meeting we went to a series of holiday fairs up and down the Mendocino coast.  At the last one, on the way back, the tiny town of Yorkville has a fair we go to every year to raise money for their volunteer fire department to buy a new fire truck.  After all this time, they're still raising money to buy the truck; I suppose it takes a lot of bake sales to buy a fire engine.  At this one on Labor Day we won a huge lemon cake at the cake walk -- Carolyn is taking the remainder if to work to put out for her fellow teachers, and I found Cross's Encyclopedia of Music in two volumes and an old British trot for Aristophanes' plays, by Frere I think.  I remember liking the trots used by British schoolboys to cheat during their Greek classes for their accuracy, so that was a great find.  I also love Milton Cross's writing on great composers -- do you know him?