Saturday, May 31, 2014

Fast forward, one year and three months

For those of you who are still out there, wondering what the hell is going on with me, my apologies.  It's all good though.   Life has been restored to an ordinary flow - as ordinary as life ever gets at this age.  This blog, originally designed to keep you all close at heart during the breast cancer crisis, has mercifully changed directions. Here come the Cole's notes so close your eyes, fasten your seat belts and imagine a Charlie Chaplin film with a sweaty piano player frantically pounding on the keys as a series of vignettes and pictures stream by. This is what you missed:

LisaandPetergotengaged

































then LisaandPetergotmarried
Thenwewentto KAUAI!
And wecamehomeinagreatbig SNOWSTORM!
Then Rickhadabigshoulderoperation(again) and blesshislittleheart, thisishowhelooked,andweshouldall beGRATEFULtowhoeverinventedMORPHINE,which istruly someAWESOMEstuff.

CathyspenttheeENTIREwinterwalking FIFTEENHUNDREDKILOMETERS toandfromtheofficemostly, butanotherwholebunch outonthetrailswithKate.  Wesurvivedonhardboiledeggs,S&P and Riesen's.  Mostly Riesen's. 
Brrrr.     No excuses.


Then!LisaandPetermovedagain (becauseyoujustcan'tdo thatenough) andthis timeintoa greatcondo downtownVictoria.

Andthroughallofthis, look how big my grandson got!



OK, you are now caught up.  At least until last week.  When life took another 90-degree turn.  More details on Monday.

In eighteen days - maybe - we will depart from Southampton, England.  From there to Bruges, Berlin, Helsinki, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Russia, Estonia, Copenhagen.  This ole' blog has been dusted off to enable me to bring my cherished friends and family along for the ride.  We leave on the summer solstice, June 21,  which is coincidentally, both of our birthdays.   This trip, nearly two years in the planning, seemed written in the stars for us, until... an uninvited guest attempted to smuggle aboard.  That being a 0.5 kidney stone rudely homesteading on the turnpike just distal to Rick's Lake Bladder.

Surgery on Monday.  With luck and grace, the trip will still be on, and the blog will continue.  Stay tuned.