One of my favorite YouTube videos recently is a 12-hour soundscape of ocean waves; I frequently use it to lull myself to sleep. When I gaze at these images from the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg, it’s easy to summon up the boom and crash of waves along a rocky shore along with the fresh salt air on […]
Our cold gray January weather isn’t exactly motivating me to get outdoors and start moving; I’m already longing for warmer weather. But for some reason this morning I started thinking back to early last May and the week we spent in Napa County, west of Lake Berryessa. We were almost exactly equidistant from Clear Lake and Berryessa. I found the […]
Our Christmas holiday didn’t go at all the way we had expected this year, but all in all, it could have been a lot worse. The Big Guy spent five nights in the hospital at Baylor Grapevine (including two in the ICU) and we didn’t get back home until December 30; we also missed out on his family’s Christmas Day […]
It’s been awhile since I last posted anything, and I’m just now starting to recuperate from the craziness that was my Christmas and New Year’s. Highlights included a trip to Texas and the Big Guy spending a few days in the hospital there — thankfully, his usual state of health has returned! I realized this morning that I have quite […]