Once more, we took an Afternoon Amble with the South Bay Striders – today’s walk was the half of the Los Gatos Year-Round Event that we didn’t walk last week. It wove through nice residential neighborhoods with a mix of old and new houses.

Some of the older houses in town have been designated as Bellringers – there are 100 in all, designated in three tranches (in 1976, 1977, and 1987). Our route took us past houses in all three categories, so we got to see all three versions of the award.

There’s a complete listing (with photos) of the Bellringers as part of the Los Gatos Local History Research Collection, which I discovered while writing this entry. It’s amazing how much information you can find with a walk and a simple search!

We visited our lawyer to sign updated wills, powers of attorney, and health care advance directives today – I guess that must mean we’re grown-ups.

Beyond that, it was a quiet day – we fled the house this morning so our housecleaner could work without interruption, took a walk on the Los Gatos Creek Trail, shopped, failed to find pomegranate arils but eventually found a whole pomegranate, and watched some TV. I also had to adapt my “daily comics” program to work with changes that Comics Kingdom had made to their website – it was easy and now the program is shorter, which is always a good thing!

Three years ago, we were in Singapore, taking a full-day guided tour around the city. Our guide showed us places that had been used in Crazy Rich Asians, historic places like the former Ford factory where the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese during World War II, beautiful views from high-rise public housing, and interesting places to explore later in our trip. We even visited an old haunt that had vanished from the Bay Area – but limited our consumption to a photo.

We did, however, have local ice cream a few hours later. :-)