Steaming into the Holidays

Your Boulevardier has a small surplus of scraps to post, but is squeezed for time due to other commitments. How can it be that he holidays are already pressing upon us? But it seems that they are. Anyway, a few items are on tap and should appear in the coming days.

Meanwhile, he will report that, while he loves the Castro Valley outlet of Peet's Coffee & Tea, the company really needs to power-wash the area under their outdoor tables. And truly, it would be most neighborly if they would wash the sidewalk all the way to their garbage cans, and around the corner for a few yards on Redwood Road. The rains are coming (we all hope), but they're not going to wash away the sticky stains on the concrete.