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This w'end (1st in Dec): llamas, b-day celebrating w/dress-up, wine-tasting, and Gaia Consort concert - w/other possibilities as well...my passport's in my purse, just in case.
Next w'end (2nd in Dec):

lightfoote comes down to visit Portland and may well lose his RHPS cherry...
F'wing w'end (3rd in Dec): The Great Dickens Christmas Faire in SF w/Dear Friends.
After that (4th in Dec): Yule w/various options for good food, friends, craftiness, and music followed by zooming Southward to the Bay Area for more celebration of the season w/fambily and friends. Happily, Ashland, OR falls smack dab half-way 'tween Monroe, WA and Carmel, CA.
Finally (5th w'end in Dec!): returning home, relaxing & recoverying, then ushering in the new year w/new(ish) friends.

2008's starting to shape up nicely:

January: a week in SoCal to see fambily & friends
February: nearly a week in Yosemite for trad'l fambily reunion
March: nearly a week w/

lightfoote in Zion Nat'l Park (Utah), a place I've been meaning to return and explore for 20 years now.