Thomas

When Jul was a senior at Parkville HS, we had Daniella Vilche from Chile live with us. Daniella just had a baby boy, Thomas. I pulled this picture from Daniella’s Facebook page.

We did it. We went to a restaurant on Valentine’s day. Right after Church we went to Mimi’s for breakfast. We should have known they wouldn’t accept the coupon. Fortunately, we were early enough that the place wasn’t crowded. We were able to sit and enjoy an extra cup of coffee. There were still plenty of empty tables when we left.

We haven’t eaten at home much this week. Thursday was dinner out night at “On the Border”. Friday was a Chinese New Year party at the clubhouse. Saturday we went to the Bauman’s for a Circle dinner. Today we’ll have dinner at home because we have to. We’re going to a BSO concert this afternoon. Then we have a Jazz Band concert at the clubhouse this evening. We just have time to come home and have a bite to eat between the two.

I’ve started a new training session for a couple of people who volunteered to post on our web site. One of the trainees, Charlie, said his wife ordered Chinese take-out for dinner Saturday. He would have preferred to spend $10 at the clubhouse rather than $22 for the carry-out. Plus, he and his wife would have had neighbors to eat with. I kind of agree with Charlie.

We’ve had a spate of cold weather. I was out riding last week in 25 degree weather because that was a respite of warm temperatures before the coming cold. The low last night was 8. It’s coming up on lunch time, and it’s still not up to 20 yet. Tomorrow we’re due for some precipitation and some warmer air. This is where it gets a little dicey. One forecast has snow Monday, with temperatures getting above freezing about midnight and the precip turning to rain Tuesday. The trick in the forecast is exactly when the temperature will get above freezing. If the cold weather takes hold, we could be in for a very sloppy week. At least the cold temps are good for insect control.

Fortunately, even pessimistic forecasts say we’ll be all cleared up by the end of the week. That’s a good thing for us, because Ryn is at the Acorn Community Farm in Virginia this week, helping them process their meat. We plan to pick Mark up, then drive down to Charlottesville. We’ll link up with Ryn for dinner Saturday and have a day of family fun Sunday.

I got the new website security system installed Saturday morning. I had a couple of little glitches, but it went pretty much as planned. I had written to all our website posters to let them know what changes to expect. Primarily, instead of seeing only the pages they could edit, they would see all 83 pages. They would have to do a search or scroll through the page list to get to the pages they can edit. Two of them wrote back and said they couldn’t find their pages. Sigh.

Well, I would write more, but there’s not much more to say. And we do have to get ready for the BSO. I hope this finds everybody doing well.