Yes, I'm Still Here

I've been out of state, seeing the Mama in Michigan. She doesn't believe much in computers...our cousins, our main source for online happiness, have been busy with family and not home much...and McDonalds has a terrible connection here in Sparta. Thankfully, another restaurant's network is better -- but we didn't discover it until today (Friday).

How has it been without internet access? Not as bad as you would think. I've read a bunch of books, gone to the beach, and talked about old times about a score of meals and coffee with the Mama and a bunch of cousins, uncles and aunts. The staffers have held the fort at the home office, in the meantime.

Daughter #1 gave herself a boost by participating in the Warrior Dash, a zany mud-filled run up in the Copper
Mountain area:

(Credit by Alex Jiminez. Bear in mind it's cooolllld up in the mountains! She said she washed off in a pond -- "because the showers were just as cold, Mom. But I couldn't feel my arms and legs for a while.")
Read more about the Warrior Dash here. And thank your lucky stars you're not in your twenties anymore...


I'll be back early next week. Hold the fort until then, and have a great weekend.