Aging

Ya know you're getting old when you look through the alumni newsletter of the organization you used to work for (the NPS Employee & Alumni Association's Arrowhead) and you see where some fella retired after 29 years of service ... and you were already in mid-career when he came into the Service! As to those who are transferring from one post to another, I rarely know them. Like the newspaper, the obituary section is where you go to find the names you recognize!

Well, we may be up in years, but we're still flexible! After yesterday went to heck and the week caught up with us (sick doggie, blowout on Sandy's car, shearing for me and senior portfolios at SWOS in the evening), and facing a cold, damp, slightly snowy pre-dawn at dog-walking time, we decided we really didn't need to bust our butts to pack, load up and get to Santa Fe for NM Regional Meeting (Quaker). So, we canceled out on that and decided to leave for Oklahoma Sunday, giving a couple of days in which to monitor Scooby Doo and decide whether we'll try to take her with us or leave her here in the care of our renters.

That made for a nice, lazy day in which we took care of the blown tire, had breakfast at the Bakery (one of our favorite pastimes), read, played with the computer, tended to odds and ends and napped! Tomorrow, on the day in Mancos that fate gave us, we'll leisurely pack for the trip, go to the Home & Garden Show at the fairgrounds and take in the Spaghetti Western Burlesque Show (?) at the opera house in the evening. I've got four pans of baklava sitting ready to take to the show ... maybe I'll even get a piece (which rarely happens, thank goodness!).

And it's snowing fairly hard outside as I write this (6:50 p.m.)! Springtime in Colorado! (The pic is the road by the house yesterday morning, not Christmas eve!) tv