Jan - Feb

Year End Review

Hi.

If you're here you got here because of the tantalizing way I lured you here in our Christmas Letter. A year end review sounds pretty tedious and I assure you that this will be at little of that. I mean you've really gotta be an easy audience to be enjoying this. In which case, you're our kind of people.

January was so long ago neither of us can remember anything that might have happened in that long cold dark month. Sandra was continuing her career at pleasemum and I was being The Player in a Moving Parts Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. That ended in early February:

Another cold, snowy, dark mad month of mayhem and flying around that took us to Arizona and some warm dry sunny times in the Grand Canyon State. We stayed at my cousin Susie's place on the two weekends we were there and it was really nice catching up with her after such a long time. I'd like to say she hadn't changed a bit in all that time but it had been 52 years and nobody can stay a toddler that long. THANKS SUSIE!

Besides the big gash Arizona offers dense mountain forests, badlands and deserts.

The saguaro cactus is an amazing thing. The monster behind herself must be a few hundred years old and that little guy won't grow an arm until it is at least 70 years old.

We went a lot of places in Arizona. Some places you'd never want to visit: like a moldy motel in Tuscon. And other places that that didn't want us: like Fort Huachuca. Brochures said it was a cool thing to see but we being ferrinners and them at war again, we wasn't 'lowed.

Got back just in time to host some folks who had kids competing in the Canada Winter Games that were held here during the coldest two weeks of the winter. Sandra volunteered as the environmental rep for the venue around the corner where the pistol shooting (week one)and fencing(week two) was going on. The "green team" succeeded in making these games the greenest on record, by diverting many bags of recyclables and compost from the local landfill. She also did a few evenings at the athletes' village where the young and famished came to the trough. There, the amount of recycling/compost far outdistanced the landfill for a new fabulous record that I'm not competent to discuss. I spent those two cold weeks recuperating from a mysterious choler that plagued me during the Arizona visit. Did get lotsa shots of Sarah and her kids.
Here's Sarah Camped in the Kitchen with Marin doing the chow thing.