Chuck scored really high points on the Best Husband in the World scale by giving me this cute-as-the-dickens Vermont Teddy Bear as a get well gift after my recent wrist surgery. The cast is on the left arm, and it has a little sling just like mine! Its little hospital gown is even open in

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Last Saturday, my niece Chris and her two kids stopped by for the afternoon. They live in Virginia, so this was a treat. They were out in California visiting Chris’s mom. We had a high time as the weather was outstanding: we went to the beach after first treating the kids to lunch at Ruby’s

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I don’t post very often so I’m a little slow at getting things up on the blog. This “movie” is from the July 4th weekend. Actually from a party called the “MasterBlasters”. Five women (fast women at that) ran the Big Sur marathon as a relay. Now that in itself is no great feat, in

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Phew! Well, I’m exhausted. We had a busy holiday weekend, which has left me feeling punchy and ready for a nap. It started on Saturday with a shindig at our friends’ Mary and Gerry’s house. We were celebrating a recent racing victory by Mary and some of her fast (as in not us) running buddies.

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I was going through our trip images and discovered a little movie that I made with my wonderful new Canon SD500. This camera can take pretty nice movies, as well as taking fabulous photos. This clip is of Chuck’s sister Dina and their new Cairn Terrier, Frasier. It’s a 1.6MB Quicktime movie.

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If it’s Saturday, we must be at last on our way home after almost two weeks of travel. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, and it all started June 15 when we flew to Colorado for Chuck’s brother-in-law Kenny’s retirement party. Chuck’s sister Dina threw him quite the blow-out fete; it even included a

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