I have no good excuse for my long absense from the blog. So I will just get on with my update.
Work: Things are pretty good. I am more or less managing two projects right now and they are both going pretty well. One is a study looking at the impacts of a city drinking water withdrawl on a stream and its impact on the stream temperature. The other is the environmental permitting for a trail system through a waterfront section of openspace in Camas. It is nice to have the responsibility for the projects but I have lost a few nights sleep worry about them.
Babies: So we had Samia trying to walk between Greyson and I. She would take about 2 steps and then dive into our lap. We would clap and say how great she was. Suddenly Piper was like "oh no you don't go giving her all that attention and leaving me out. Un uh sister, I don't think so" (in her soul sister voice). So little Pipe seeing all our excitement crawled right over and showed us all she had for the next hour. She stood right up would walk 6 or 7 steps before falling. She did this over and over, while giggling as she went. She was so proud of herself. Samia is still a bit sick. I saw that the Camas kindergarten class had some strange bug going around; I wonder if Samia got it from Emma since they were together last week.
Life: Life is good. Greyson parents came to visit a couple weeks ago and that was nice. I invited them to come down for Christmas as well. I start to get bummed out this time of year as the sun set earlier and earlier. I think I need to move to a house that isn't in the shadow of a mountain. I think Archer Mountain shaves a good 2 hours off our daily sunshine here. My garden did pitifully this year. The only thing I can grow is squash of one sort or another. I did cook up the zucinni I grew and the girls liked it. I even like it. I still have yet to get a red tomato. I do have about 10 nice, plump green ones.
I saw that PSU had someone give 25 million dollars for establishing a new sustainability program at PSU. I find that almost a tempting subject to get a PhD in. I know they are going to be addressing solar/wind energies.
Well I think I have blabbed on enough for now. Thanks for reading,
-Mel
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Nice to hear from Jennifer, Greyson and Melanie. Where are the Porters?
We cleaned out the freezer today and then made a trip to Costco & filled it back up. Dad and I are still doing fairly well on our healthy diet plan and exercise.
We saw the movie "Burn After Reading" which was kind of fun. Not your usual type of comedy.
I'm driving GFA to Castle Rock tomorrow so she can attend the funeral of a friend from there.
My semi-retirement: I'm really loving it, especially since my first retirement check (including back pay) arrived this weekend. The only downside is trying to get all the work done in just 20 hours a week.
We are going with the Dean's on the camping trip this coming Friday. We will get to try out the superbig tent Dad bought last fall. It is one he can stand up in. It should be really fun to get erected.
Mom/Jan
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