Linda Hubbard

The predicted rain did not disappoint with heavy rain starting overnight, yielding to mostly sunny skies at noon.

InMenlo contributing photographer captured these festive Menlo Park front yards after dark a few days ago.

Our Christmas dinner at good friends’ house featured, as usual, a wonderful cake from Menlo-Park based Studio Cake, this year with a Santa theme. One was chocolate and one was vanilla. Both yummy.

“Together with my wife, Esty, and our one-year-old daughter, we recently moved to town to open a Chabad branch and Jewish center in Menlo Park. We will be holding Menlo’s first public menorah lighting tonight [Dec. 26] at Fremont Park at 5:00 pm.”

In Menlo weather watcher Dennis Nugent’s digital rain gauge has been busy recording what is the first really good rain of the rain year that stared October 1, 2024. It recorded 0.35″ on Thursday, Dec. 26, and another 0.40″ as of 9:30 this morning, bringing the year to date total to 6.18″.

Coming home last night after dark, we spotted Judy Morley’s beautifully lit tree on Santa Cruz Avenue near Lemon Avenue — and reached out to Robb Most for a photo he took last year of the tree.

The rain arrived as forecast around dawn but sputtered out earlier than predicted.

Could it really be that a post about a local resident going to Safeway on El Camino in Menlo Park was viewed the most — by a landslide — on InMenlo in 2024? Yes, when that resident was Warriors basketball star Steph Curry who was there to sign bottles of his Gentleman’s Cut Kentucky bourbon. It also happens to be the most read post ever on InMenlo.

Announced organizers of the Menlo Charity Horse Show on December 31, 2024:

The rain forecast to start at 9:00 am did arrive almost on time at 9:15 am. But instead of steadily raining throughout the morning, it just sputtered along.