Marylyn says: "Can you believe it?" We celebrated our 40th
wedding anniversary this year! The numbers get bigger, and we are still
having fun. "Retired and busy" is the main theme. Marylyn is still
chiropracting about one day a week, and Mike is sailing a bunch.
Chris and Heather are busy in
Wisconsin, and Steve is at
Wayne State in Detroit. Fortunately they travel to California,
so we get to see them.
Wonderful REAL tomatoes from our garden. French class too, with a
small presentation of "Cyrano" and his "panache".
Aunt Sis, Marylyn's aunt, passed away this year after 100 years
of enriching the lives of those around her, with stories,
hand-stitched items and pumpkin pies. A treasure.
Our cat Joshua:
"Our white cat
jus' keeps purrin' on and on.
He's so soft and fluffy."
Good times with good friends....another theater/Los Arcos reunion.
Saw Terry, realizing we started theater together
47 years ago. Also saw Phemie and Ben after many years.
Much sailing...we used "Impetuous" over 35 times this year on the bay.
Mike's sail to Cabo did not work out, so he flew down there
anyway, to meet the cruisers and attend the parties.
Much music this year. We saw wonderful performances by Dick Z.,
Sonny R., Scott K., Bill D. in his banjo orchestra,
"Ragtime" at Foothill College, "Lion King", and the Smuin Ballet holiday program.
And wonderful singing at home, which prompted me to write "Bee-Flat Blues".
It was a year of bureaucracy..... SSI, Medicare, telephone services,
email spam, changes at our marina, replacing lost keys,
various insurance companies...but we kept up with it all.
Our thought for this year.....
"I have been reading the different news papers lately and find that
there is conflict of opinion concerning the true state of things
between [different groups of men]. Some say that history
repeats
itself, but cannot explain why it is so, and others
go farther and say that what is taking place now will take place
25,000 years from now. According to that 25,000
years ago I was writing this, and 25,000 years
hence I will be writing this same thing again.
But be this as it may,
I will tell my story."
