Snippets

We're off to San Francisco for a week at Thanksgiving. We've rented an apartment near Coit Tower (with a garage!), Kathy has a Zagat restaurant guide,and we're going to be tourists in the city we love. We will also visit Geri Andrus in Sacramento and my twin, Jim, and nephew, Sean,in Belmont.

This is Geri, Kathy's sister, and their Mom, Virginia.

Lauren moving to Portland soon to be around various friends from her Lewis & Clark days. She has one more week at Summit Group. They want her to stay a bit longer, but she's ready to go. Tonight she ate with us and then went off to see Max. When she eats with us we turn off the TV and talk...very pleasant. She's very well informed and enjoys conversing. Her pal Eleni from St. Catherine days was over last night and we all had a nice time. The little girls grow up.

A friend through work died this week. Bob Hyatt, a construction superintendent at Perkins for several years while we did a series of remodels. Great guy. Had a stroke four years ago and has been in a wheelchair..but had another stroke and is gone.

Looks like Donald Woodlee out there in Watrous New Mexico is close to selling his "ranch" to the local big ranch. He's sad to go, but it is isolated and his Mom couldn't take the altitude with her COPD. Hmmmmm...both the Mom, Ellen, and Bob Hyatt were smokers and it has caused serious health issues for both of them.

I am trying to read a real book for a change. "Palace Walk" by an Egyptian, Naguib Mafhouz, who won the Nobel Prize.

That's it. Had my trenchcoat dry cleaned just in time for the rainy dark days. It looks o.k. and should be good for its 10th or whatever year. I used to think I was cheap, but now I know I was in the forefront of the sustainability movement.

Good night, all.