We would like to thank the following people and things who made our lives a little better in August and September:

• Nick and Tanya Alva
• Paul Stokeld
• Robert Butler
• Michelle Baynes & Cecilia
• Dave and Juliet Pokorny
• Will Durst
  
• Johnny Steele
  
• Elly Lichenstein
• Bridget Palmer
• Jim Corbett
• Megan Rhodes
• Tara Metheny Shuster
• Shekeyna Black
• Rick Nowlin
• Jennifer Brown
• John Maher
• Michael McQuilken
• Andrea Terry
• Stark's Steakhouse
• Alan Silow
• Kathy Swett
• Roseland Elementary
• Efren Carrillo
• Anne Fitzgerald
• Charles Sepos
• Maria Halyna
• Onye Onyemaechi
• John Duran
• Kristeen Abrahamson
• Kevin Russell and Corey Wood
  
• Ralf Konietsko
• Ellen Draper
• Steve and Susan Nurse
• Brooks Anderson
• Jason Liles
• Kathleen McCallum
• Rodney Strong
• Hint Water
• Children's Museum of Sonoma County
• Mike McGinnis
  

• Doug Jayne
• Frank Hayhurst
• David Gross
• Bill Bowker
• Gordon Zslot
• Steve Jaxon Vicario
• Liz Bortolotto
• Katherine Gallagher, Shelley Scott, Diana Breslich
• Martin Ewen
• Joaquin and Aimee Lopez/McConnnell
• Melissa Kelley
• Nadja Masura
• Steve Fowler
• Linda Postenreider
• Eliot Fintushel
• Mark Bunnell
• Clark Lewis
• Jennie Orvino
• Liz Treacy
• Jimmy Hits Esquivel
• Brian Lloyd
• Sylvia Binsfeld
• Katherine Zsolt
• Neal Barbosa
• Anna Schuessler
• Robert Marcus
• Julianne Odell
• Harvey Charnofsky
• Michiko Conklin
• Susan Gustavson
• Tom Lombardo
• Christine Nelson
• Sally Baker
• Jim Wood
• Jennifer Sloan
• Lagunitas
• Fork Catering
• Bennett Valley Kitchens
• Dick Hafner