Not a heck of a lot has happened, really. As one gets older, one's friends seem to drop away or move to Facebook. Look for me there too!

Yes, I managed to get through all of 2010 without a single entry. I suppose that's what happens as you get older - the years all start to blend together and there are no big events, or at least none that you want to share with the world. Still and all, here's what happened in 2010 ( Read more... )

I'd better hurry if I'm going to post another comment before 2010 ( Read more... )

Not long after the previous post here last October I had a mild heart attack while on my daily walk. I made it back to the house (I was about half a mile away when it began to be really painful) and eventually wound up in the hospital in Keene, NH. They sent me up to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Lebanon, where I had a heart catheterization, ( Read more... )

Rather than leave a scowling image as the first thing you see in my LJ page, I'll post this one, taken today while hiking in Warwick.


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1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.


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September 12, 1958
We got married in Claremore, OK


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I'm posting an image in order to test Xjournal, an open-source LJ editing program. Looks like it works quite well!
This is Richards Reservoir in Warwick, MA in February of this year.
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Our holiday celebration was very warm and nice, although our son Ted slipped on the icy front steps, fell, and broke his wrist. He's OK and now the proud possessor of a titanium plate and some miscellaneous screws.

So Ted and Andrea were there, as well as Signe and Paul. Bonus guests were Paul's sister Karen and his brother Mark.


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We send out the traditional end-of-year-summation-of-what-we-have-done letter every year, but usually don't get it out by December 25th. In fact, we probably should call it our 'New Year's letter.'

For those who'd like to see it before we get the pile to the post office, here it is.