It's been a long, long time...

It has been so long since my last post that I don't know where to begin.

First off, I'm happy to report that Thing2 and I are both in reasonably good healh. Today Thing2 met with her liver specialist doctor, and she's still doing OK there. My back is pretty sore from time-to-time, but I am getting by OK. Work is still there for me, which is something that I can't take for granted in this economy.


Unfortunately, my mother had complications (infection) from hip replacement surgery 2-years ago, and had the first of 2 surgeries to redo the hip replacement yesterday. She hopes to be released on Friday, but as of this evening, she still had not been out of bed.

I have a huge backlog of pictures that I need to post. I'll try to get started tomorrow.

I've moved

My new digs are at KCL: Keepingintouch

Thinking about moving to KCL

Tomorrow's a holiday, so I may have time to look into it.

Of course I'll let you know if I do that.

The Evening on the Coast

The pelicans were spectacular!

Pics as promised

These are a few shots from Sunday -- As promised.
What I didn't know when we went there was a piece of family lore.
Many years ago my grandparents were walking along this beach and a seal came shooting out of the water onto the beach behind them. He was followed by an enormous shark, which bit it in two and dragged it back into the water...

Thing2's response to this was to tell me "I told you that beach was dangerous.
When we were there we didn't see any sharks, but there was a world-class kite surfer out in the big waves.



There were lots of interesting plants too.

No pics this morning

My wireless mouse apparenetly was insulted by my desktop ncomputer and has decided not to speak to it.

Until I can get them back on speaking terms there will be no pictures.

Sorry :(

It's so good to be back

I knew that I missed reading all of your blogs, but I had forgotten the little bonuses that come from writing about our daily activities and interests.

For example, I never would have learned about the history and architecture of Asilomar if I handlt posted my previous short little note. (I haven't forgotten about the photos... I did find time to upload them, so tomorrow morning I'll post them.)

And while I was doing that search, I ran across several great web sites.

One was a talk on gender in the visual arts: Oh What A Difference A Difference Makes

The other is a site that bills itself as a web search for women. I'm not sure if it's actively maintained, but it's full of interesting links.

All in all, I have to say it's nice to be back.