happy thanks.., etc.

Us on Thanksgiving Day, 2012 from the deck looking SE. What a difference a year makes! The old kid has hair! Actually he's doing okay. Still hassling with lungs in re allergies, or a virus, or dirty air, or box elder bugs, or whatever. My last trip to the doc got me an antibiotic. While that may have helped, it has not rid me of a continuing cough. Of course, they (docs) all say this is the worst year they have known in our area, what with forest fire smoke most of the summer, and few storms to clear the air. We are now verging on our winter pattern which is to say, inversions, which are essentially trapped particles of the PM2.5 and PM10 micron size, all of which are like smoking a pack a day if you are forced to breathe them. We long for snow which has the effect of clearing away the inversion. We got one dandy a couple weeks ago but have had nothing since. You can see from the picture that our ground is bare.

Still also hassling the arthritis/neuropathy stuff which makes walking interesting. Very important that I do my stretching and strengthening daily.  All of the foregoing is livable in the absence of the big C for the time being.

Our usual Thanksgiving Day with Dan Cornell down from Jackson WY and Lisa up from SLC, this year joined by Jerry and Sue Fuhriman. The food turned out well. Our family tradition is to barbecue the turkey which inevitably causes great worry but is always done perfectly in about 90 minutes. I'm thankful that went well. Dan helped me get on the snow plow which, I'll bet, sees little use this winter.

Really just two weeks to get everything done--concerts, port flush, meetings, and the like--until we are on the road to AZ for 6 weeks. Still looking forward to that.

Hope you all are as well as we are--better even. I'll stay in touch, natch.