from colds and I have been trying to catch up with some of the
house work around the house.
Ariel was here Monday and Tuesday. I picked her up Monday
morning and she stayed over night. Carl picked her up at
the Meadows Branch Library Tuesday afternoon. She helped
grandpa Robert by running the log splitter on Monday and on
Tuesday she helped haul a pile of branches from above the
patio out to the barn. She's a good worker.
She likes to help me, too, with the cooking. She made
scrambled eggs for all of us Tuesday morning for breakfast
while I warmed up some cooked Virginia Ham slices which
we use in stead of bacon. The slices have almost no fat.
The two days flew by. She is old enough now to be good
company and a real help.
The following picture is one of my favorites. Martha took
it in December at the school play that Ariel was in. I
thought she and James were dancing, but she says no, they
were "nudging". In any case,nudging or dancing, I like
the picture.
Ariel and James
My friend Susan is in the hospital. She has had 4 rounds of
chemo for breast cancer making her very vulnerable to any
disease traveling around. Unfortunately her son, Sean,
came down with one of the miserable colds going the rounds
which then landed Susan in the hospital. She went in at
3 AM yesterday. She is doing better, but she still has
2 more chemo sessions, or six weeks more of killing her
body. Which is then followed by radiation daily for
another six weeks. If she gets through all of that the
hope is that her cancer is cured!
Today we went to lunch at SOBO, a new restaurant in the Table
Mesa shopping center. It is owned by Buck and Ruth Fry's son
Stephan. Probably Stephan and the bank, actually. It is
beautiful in side and very up-scale. We met Suzanne, Buck and
Ruth, Dennis and Sarah and Bob Chervin for lunch. There was also
a table with an NCAR computing contingent there ahead of us. I
recognized only Fred Clare and Julie Rew. Julie now has the job
I had when I retired, head of Consulting, Documentation and
Training. Someone commented after I had stopped to say hello.
Ann is the one who started the Consulting project many years ago.
And it was many years ago, too. About 33 years, I think.
Jeanne arrives tomorrow. She'll be here for a week! I am
excited about that and am anxious for her arrival.
