Alameda Dreamin'

We've been living in Alameda for the last 2 months. Our house at 1810 Pacific Ave has been coming along. So far we've put on a new roof, new floors in places and refinished the wood floors that were already there, replaced the water heater with a tankless, and replaced the TERRIBLE, old floor vent heater with a high-efficiency forced air system. We also made a nice little pantry by moving the washer/dryer to the other side of the wall.


Folks around here call Alameda "Mayberry by the Bay" and it really does feel like a cute small town. Folks ride bikes around the island and you see families walking around.

We had the folks and Dan and Natara over for lunch on Christmas day.
One of the nice things about Alameda is that there are a lot of great parks. There are 3 parks less than 7 blocks from our house. We went to Lincoln Park today for the first time. We watched some folks playing handball, I'd never seen people playing it. Kate had a blast sliding head-first down a tube slide.