Hi all,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I’m still alive and kicking. I haven’t posted anything in the last 9 days because I’ve been very busy. Between work and things going on at home, like our very sick kitty, I’ve either not had the time to post or haven’t had the energy or brain power. Things aren’t going to get much better next week because I have jury duty all week.

I’ll try to get some new things up next week, but can’t promise anything right now.

Hopefully by next weekend life will return to normal and I can get back in the SierraVisions groove.

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Her favorite Dead song.

After a wonderful 6 days in California, we’re back home in Wisconsin now. This trip was as close to perfect as you can get. The weather was awesome, my mom’s surprise party went off perfectly, got to see see friends ans family that I hadn’t seen in years, spent a great day up in the mountains, and had another great day along the beach.

I think it’s safe to say the our souls were refreshed and facing the rest of the winter doesn’t seem quite as bad. Not that it’s bad anyway, since we love winter, but taking a warm Southern California break from it feels very good.  I told Lynne that we may have to take a winter vacation every year from now on :-)

Of course Wisconsin had to welcome us back the best way it knows how, by freezing our butts off. It was 3 degrees when we got home with a windchill around -20. Today’s high is 6 and it’s supposed to get -6 tonight.  Yesterday as the plane was leaving LAX the pilot asked if anyone was wearing shorts and flip flops. He said they were in for a big surprise when we got to Milwaukee :-)

It feels good to be home though. We’re kind of taking it easy today, getting some laundry and shopping done. We both have a lot of pictures to go through, I’ll get some posted sometime this week.

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Today is my mom’s 80th birthday!! Happy Birthday Mom!!

To celebrate, Lynne and I will be catching a plane for California tomorrow and should be in Bishop tomorrow evening. All of the family will be there and Mom knows nothing of this. It will be the first time we’ve all been together since dad passed away.

This is going to be a very busy, nonstop trip for us. Wish I could see some of you guys while we’re out there, but it’s just not possible this time.

There most likely won’t be posting anymore until we get home next week.

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