We have passed the second year on the Left Coast now. We added a new grandaughter since getting here. She is on the Right Coast, though, so we aren't able to spoil her as much as we would like. The shipping services are doing well, however.

I added a few more tools to my small arsenal and now make wooden pens for friends and donate some to Friends of the Carpenter, a local homeless workshop/charity.

It seems Honey's Dad (Johnny) is no longer able to travel overnight so we are pretty much confined to day trips now. We hope that lasts for at least twelve more years so we can celebrate his hundredth birtday with him.

God loves our plans. He likes to laugh. I retired a couple of years ago and now I wonder how I ever had time to work. My Honey just retired from a Special Ed teaching career, the last two kids have flown the coop (with a lot of money following them), and we have embarked on an adventure. We sold out home and everything on the East coast and took a month to drive to the West coast (Vancouver, WA) where we moved in with Honey's Dad who needs live-in care now. We assume when he no longer needs us we will return to the Maryland/Delaware area where all our five children and five + (so far) grandchildren are clustered. (But see the first scribble) I downsizied my woodworking hobby from a huge table saw and all the other tools collected over twenty years to a new top of the line scrollsaw. Maybe there will be a review on it later. We recently finished a three week vacation to the Missouri area. We saw a lot of things and are trying to document some of them for others here. Larry