For the past few years we’ve celebrated our anniversary at Bennett Spring State Park and this year we continued that tradition at our favorite cabin, #16.

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While this trip was occasioned by my dad's passing and the declining health of Kate's sister, in retrospect it turned out to be a wonderful celebration ( Read more... )

Heavy rain all night, though it had cleared off by the time we got up. We slept in a bit and since I’m a rank novice fisherman I had no idea what the fish would be doing after such a rain. So at Kate’s suggestion I checked the Trout Cam: there was one guy fishing where there are usually at least half a dozen.

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To my own surprise, I was up early and at the river ready to fish before the 0730 morning siren. (I’m usually up early, but moving is another matter.) Kate thought it was cute that I was making her a “fisherman’s widow” but at least I started the coffee before I left ( Read more... )

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On Wednesday we went down our (mostly) annual pilgrimage to Bennett Spring. (We missed it last year, as you may recall.) On the way down we passed a place that had firewood for sale so we stopped. There was an old dog sleeping on the porch, so I didn’t feel inclined to ring the bell but there was a truck in the yard with a number on the side, so I ( Read more... )

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...kinda like the Chinese curse about living in interesting times. We went to California to visit my dad for his 89th birthday, which was last Tuesday. For starters, I thought I had booked a flight for 7:30 am only to find it was for 7:30 pm. Oh well, not that big a deal, though I was sorry to miss a day with my dad. We got into Ontario Airport ( Read more... )

We had a lovely trip - it was really great to see Dad home and happy! On Friday we made a run to California Wine and Cheese in Monrovia to get some Roquefort cheese so I could make him his favorite salad dressing - it's almost impossible to find true Roquefort dressing anymore. Needing a proper meal to serve such a salad, I grilled some steaks ( Read more... )

...I went back and took some pictures of yesterday's "Slip-'n'-Slide" site. If you click on it a couple times you can see fairly clearly where Rivet's right side rested against the embankment and where the right front tire was. Also the drag mark from the left front tire where she got pulled out.

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