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Spring? Maybe?? Maybe not???

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

So, here it is mid-April, and we woke up to it SNOWING outside. And yesterday was a hail storm. Last Saturday was a teaser-day – sunny, warm, delightful. Then back to cold and damp. And now snow and hail.

Cindy and I have been working hard in the yard (check out the photos on her blog till I get my flickr account updated). We’ve got a lot of plants and trees in, trellises up, etc. Things are starting to bud and bloom. This was going to be another weekend to get garden work done, trees in the ground. But cold and snow somehow put a damper on those plans. (Motivated me to start writing in my blog again, however!)

My co-workers in San Diego don’t understand our excitement for a sunny day, or how we have no desire to travel away from our homes during the too-few summer months. It’s true, they have nice weather all the time, but it’s never so sweet after 6-9 months of cold gray damp!

Of course, it’s all relative – my sister and her family in Anchorage just had a couple feet of snow!

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New Year, New Roads

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Well, it’s been almost a year-and-a-half since I wrote in my blog – I keep meaning to “get caught up”, but of course that never seems to actually happen. :-) I will have to find a way to back-date all the draft posts I have from New Zealand.

I can’t believe that the last time I wrote I was still in New Zealand! So, what new roads have there been for me/us since then?

  • Returned from our year in New Zealand, back to our house on Bainbridge Island.
  • Bought a house in Gig Harbor (about an hour south) to be near Cindy’s family.
  • Spent time fixing up our Bainbridge house to continue renting it.
  • Got a job as a Senior Systems Programmer at Planning Systems in Bremerton (conveniently half-way between Gig Harbor and the Bainbridge rental).
  • Max graduated from Bainbridge High School, and is now in his Freshman year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
  • Sarah is off for a semester studying abroad in Greece.
  • Cindy is enjoying being close to her family, being in a house she loves, and pursuing her usual creative pursuits!

    • (Now, this blog is about my “Roads Less Traveled”, meaning the meanderings and branches in my road through life. Not necessarily roads less travelled in the real world – for that, go read something like Dervla Murphy’s “Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle” or “Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan”. Crazy Irishwoman!)

    We came back from our year with the intent of moving closer to Cindy’s family, and then staying put and relaxing for a bit. Not doing any travel, working in the yard… And what do we end up with? Possibly one of the busiest travel years! But that’s fodder for a future post! (Hopefully not a year-and-a-half from now!)

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