And my, what a month it's been!

Rachel continues to be very hale and hearty, and wants to be fed all the time -- which is a good thing, because the doctors are being picky about her weight. But at the same time they say that she looks very good and is clearly very healthy, so that's all right.

Peire & I had a marvelous time at georgie_bird's revel -- I got ( Read more... )

There are some days which just go well on all counts, and they need to be savored. Today was such a day, for a number of reasons:

( It was a productive day! )

Yesterday (April 5th) was my first anniversary! Peire & I did it pleasant but low-key, as in visiting with our two sets of parents, eating year-old wedding cake (hey cirya! It was still darned tasty! I'm extremely impressed), and going out to dinner at the Rice Bowl, which was the restaurant that we went to last year with our wedding party after the fun ( Read more... )

Boy, is it HOT. Darned hot! Hot Hot HOT! It is the hottest and most humid part of the year, which makes work (done all outside, of course) often quite miserable, temperature-wise. Of course, on the flipside of the year (i.e., wintertime), I often think of summer as I am shivering outside at Mission San Luis, and I say to myself, "Boy, remember how ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I did an update here, so I'm going to rectify that. In the last few weeks, here's some of the things that I've been doing ( Read more... )

I had so hoped to get through this winter season without dealing with a cold; but alas, the sniffling I've been doing off & on for the last few days has emerged into a full-blown BLEHHHHHH as only colds can be. I called in sick from work even, and I've not done that in agesThe industrious part of me thought that maybe if I'm here at home, I might ( Read more... )