On A Redo Kick

Monday, March 13, 2006

The weather here continues to stun me.  This weekend it snowed down to almost sea level.  The rain was an everyday constant and all then nights were down in the mid thirties.  We continue to struggle with some sort of allergies and colds that make the nights a long bout with Kleenex but at least I will go to Cabo San Lucas to play golf with friends on the 16^th for a long weekend.  As usual, my golf is not where I want it to be but so what, at least the weather will be warm.  At least I hope so.

The losing battle with my body goes on.  I played squash as a warm-up for a tournament that I was to play in this weekend and hurt my shoulder.  I will be forced to check this out as I had to withdraw due to injury.  My partner Hank, hurt his back as well.  He didn’t get to play either.

Last night we had some friends in for dinner and it was our first entertainment in the Sonoma house since returning from Italy.  It was nice to have people in the house again.  We are on a redo kick.  We had the floors redone and the walls painted.  The point is that we have been living in our Sonoma house for 10 years.  It doesn’t seem possible, time flies.  We have always enjoyed entertaining in this small and cozy home.  Our menu was pretty simple, Pork Roast, scalloped potatoes, green beans, salad, bread, some nice wine and Kim’s homemade apple crisp with ice cream.  It always help to have some nice people to share it with.  Hank (squash friend) and Lew (golf friend) and their wives were the guests and it wholesome and pleasant if not exciting.  For me, it is nice to be home where we know how to say “Pork Roast” in English, oh well, you get the point. 

Charlie and Dionne have a new baby.  This is cause for celebration.  The baby is healthy. Charlie and I have our issues but this is not one of them.  We are anxious to see his kids and hope they will join us for Stanford camp. We have yet to figure out a way for them to get to us as their parents feel they are not yet able to travel alone.  We are working on this now.

Life seems a little slow right now but I am busy starting to edit my Italian Blog with my editor Kim.  We are taking everything apart and hope to put it back together as a series of essays on everything from aging to Roman sights.  I am looking forward to the rewrite.  It will take a while for this project to germinate. 

Golf with the boys will be a blast, looking forward to Cabo.