We had visitors for dinner at Jeff's...

The weather was warm and sunny when we left Redding, which continued most of the way over the mountains to Susanville. There was quite a bit of ice on the road, so driving made me a bit nervous, not looking forward to driving home after dinner in the dark.  That all changed when we got close to Susanville.  Where the Dixie Fire went through, close to the 36/44 intersection, you have a clear view of the valley.  Saturday you could see the inversion layer over Susanville.  It was 35 degrees and sunny, then it dropped to 28 and overcast.  The pogonip was so cool - you could see the line on the trees where the temps changed.

 I wandered around Jeff's place while I was there.

 

We went to Jeff's for the Thomas family Thanksgiving - Kolby and Jake came up with their families - Andrea and Franco with Kolby, and Jackie and two cats with Jake.  Franco is 15 months old and is a little doll!  He's just learning to talk and they are raising him bilingual, which is just so cool.  He is already getting in to everything he can, and Grammie and Grandpa's house is wide open to him.  Jeff told Andrea that he'd let her know "if" Franco ever did anything wrong, but he didn't think that would ever happen....

He and Alli spent some time studying each other.  She's really good about not stepping/walking on the little kids when she's spinning, and they got along just fine until Franco found the TV remote and started changing channels.  She doesn't seem to care what's on TV so she was fine for a while, and then he turned it off....AJ came to the rescue and got it going for her again, whew!