After a rain, went out for a walk. I try to do a least one 3 to 5 mile walk everyday. On most weeks I get about 3 days with two walks in a day. And when walking with friends, about once a week, these walks are from 6 to 8 milers. The above photo, looking west shortly after a rain fall, just a couple of hundred yards from my RV location in Mountain View Calif. Lately the weather has been funny, you probably have noticed. The past two weeks, lots of rainy days, what is funny is how fast the weather changes in a day. One morning, I look out of the RV, it looked partly cloudy with lots of blue sky, I changed into walking cloth and shoes, step out of the RV, no less than 10 yrds out, it poured like crazy. Could not have been more than 15 min between partly cloudy to rain. No I didn't walk in the rain this time; though have been known to do that. Maybe am getting wimpy in my older days.

This will probably be the last blog for 2012. Yes will blog again next year, specially since the world didn't end. Lets be happy about that, even though we have at year’s end a so called “fiscal cliff” created by our congress, just in case the world didn't end, and to show us that they are independent of us and more powerful that “we the people”.

On to good things, another wedding, nephew Michael Smith, son of baby sis, Shirley, marries Carly Read earlier in the month, 15 Dec 2012. Where ? in Atlanta, Georgia.

Michael is 28 yrs old. Has more relatives than he knows: 4 siblings, 3 nephews and nieces, at least 12 uncles and aunts, at least 21 1st cousins, 18 1st cousins once removed (children of 1st cousins), 3 1st cousins twice removed (grand children of 1st cousins), .... and more to 178 relatives. That is just from his mother’s side of the family. TO MICHAEL AND CARLY, HAVE A MOST WONDERFUL LIFE, FULL OF FUN STUFF EVERY DAY.

OK, I will stop here and leave this year behind with the above happy event, and wish all a HAPPY NEW YEAR, MAY 2013 BE THE BEST EVER. Seee Yaaaa,