Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Sheep--in the floods of Sonoma!

in the morning, we did some errands, none of which worked out. went to the AT and T
 store to upgrade dan's iphone so he could give me his--can't do it yet, the contract isn't up. went to look for a new jacket for him, no luck. wanted to go to the farmers market in San Rafael, a wonderful farmers market that we've been craving for--we got out of the car, walked 2 feet and gave up as it was raining so hard!

Came back home for lunch, and went to Napa for the afternoon. the day got much , much better then. I got some cool clothes at the CAbi outlet in Napa, as well as some great shoes, which i think will be great once my blisters heel! then went to look for the Coppola winery just to have a destination. stopped at St Helena's on the way, which is a wonderful town we never tire of.  It's lively, full of interesting stores (not all ritzy, some but not all) and pretty. Drove up to calistoga and then realized whoops, Coppola is in Sonoma Valley, not Napa Valley!  Oh well, we didn't care. found a wine tasting store, which stocks wineries that don't have tasting rooms. some very good, but expensive wines.

In St. Helena's, Dan bought a very cool hat.

On the way up to Napa, there are vineyards all over the place. in one vineyard, we saw sheep all over the vineyard, which we thought was probably a very good sustainable idea, as they say in Ca. , as the sheep keep the grass short around the vines, we think. anyway, I  wanted to take a picture of this for this day's blog, but decided that later. well, it had been raining on and off all day. the rain in Ca. is so different than in Michigan. it is sort of relentless, just keeps coming and coming, then will stop, then keeps coming. and because we're near sea level, there is nowhere for it to go, so it floods really easily here. It comes in torrents down the ease troughs too.

So we were driving back, trying to get to the vineyard where the sheep were. As we neared Sonoma, the roads were closed, flooded out. we kept taking detours, and kept seeing closed roads! felt like we were going in circles. There are very few roads in this area, and some are dirt, small private roads.  We finally got through, but alas, the sheep were all gone!  Where were they, I don't know but I may have to go back and find them!

anyway, it was a nice day.