Big Announcement - Furniture!

Not much "interesting" has happened over the last 2 weeks other than getting adjusted to apartment life again. Chris and I were extremely excited for Saturday though as we had our sofa delivered. YES....... Up until now, the living room consisted of the TV, DVD player and a foam bed cushion. You would not believe how much we all take sofa's for granted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We spent almost the entire weekend watching movies on the new sofa.

Another exciting change has been the arrival of our child Atilla! He came to live with us last Saturday and oh what a change for the poor guy. He used to live in an apartment, then we moved to CA and he lived in a house for 4 years now he's back to an apartment again. The first few days Chris had a stalker, everywhere she went so did Atilla. Amazing how loving a dog can be when he's not sure what is going on! He's getting more settled now though and we are all much happier to have a relaxed dog even ....er cat........er dog.......well, whatever the furball is. One little happy family.

Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here already? I hope you are aware of the great things in your life that you can be grateful for........my list just goes on and one and keeps getting longer! If I'm slow to post, Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm happy to announce that the hardest part of moving into the new apartment is over!!! Schewwww...... Now once the sore muscles, sprained ankles and pinched nerves go away we'll be able to stand upright again and go out in public. Oh, it wasn't that bad and we survived and we're both very happy to actually see each other on a daily basis.


Obviously for good reason I won't post our new mailing address or phone number here but if somehow forget to send it to you and you want to contact us, please send us an email and we'll fire that information off to you.


Yes I know..... you have read to the end of the entry already and are yearning for more and thinking "is that it?" but unfortunately that is all for the moment. We will try to get more relavant news posted soon.


Cheers!!!!

It Finally Rained!!!

Happy October 1st everyone and oh how it started. Today Chris and I were driving around, she said, "You know the first of the month is lucky". Oh how she was right. At that time, we were off to tour an apartment complex in Pleasanton, CA that would take dogs and... people too! I knew where we were driving and Chris did too and she was driving.. I was riding and to my surprise we went right on past where I knew we were going. On we went, over around a couple left turns down the straight-away and finally to our destination which was NOT where we were planning to go. Chris thought she had been to the complex we were enroute to fortunately for us both, she took us to a place she and her mother had visited last year.


We decided, hey, we're here lets take a look at the place and see how nice the apartments are, the parking, the amenities and of course the most important and scary thing - the price. Before the day was over, we had done it, our first place together!! Soooooo exciting. And to top if off, we received some rain too, the first rain I can recall since April or May. Yes, as you can see the month started out with a surprise. We move in at the end of the month so if anyone has any extra "C" notes lying around feel free to send them our way for those good old move-in deposits!

As always I loooove to share our photos so here are a couple from this Spring in Yosemite National Park. The first photo is of Yosemite Falls and the later is obviously a photo of Chris and I (I am the one on the right!) with Bridal Veil falls in the distant.

October is Almost Here

Wow, can you believe October is almost here? Where does the time go? This past week was not an exciting week and "if" we are able to squeeze in some traveling, it will have to happen tomorrow.

Since we have nothing "new" to share, we will share something from our Labor Day journey! We had the opportunit to visit a new area for us, the Lassen Volcanic National Park in north central California. The area is a highly active geothermal area, similar but in a much smaller scale than Yellowstone. Mount Lassen last erupted in 1917 so we are seeing history in the making, the trees in some areas are almost 90 years young and luckily for us, humans were there taking photo's in 1917 as well. It is a scenic area, there are great views and some creatures for the viewing though the word "wild" doesn't exactly apply to them all.














While in the park, we took a nice walk around Manzanita Lake on the West side of the mountain. Chris took a beautiful photo of the peak which I feel is worthy of sharing... so enjoy and imagine yourself there!



On our return trip home we decided to take the scenic route across the state to the West and down Hwy 101 through Humboldt Redwood State Park. Now if you have never seen large Redwood trees, there is no way to truely describe them and photos will never do them justice. Some of these trees are 2000-3000 years old and are large enough that in the past, some parks felt cutting a tunnel for cars was the impressive thing to do. Though it is impressive in one way it is saddening in another. Here is another photo that shows the scale of these massive trees, though the photo is not a great shot, my pickup in the background is about 18 1/2 feet long and those are just the average trees! It is humbling, awe inspiring and calming just to be amoungst them.........

Thank you for checking in, happy traveling!

The dog days of summer......

Well they are almost over but Atilla is looking forward to the cooler weather. As you can see by the photo, the poor furry guy has been waiting all summer for the weather to cool off.

He's just hoping there is a move in the near future to a climate more appropriate than the temperatures in the central valley of Cali! When that happens, we will be sure to let you know.