Is this proof that no matter what you do, sooner or later it will be found to be bad for you. Sister Dorothy has it right:  Life is too short to give up anything.  So let's do everything ! Anyway.

A bunch of stuff has happened in the last 5 weeks. Let see, spent a few days in Los Angeles at sis Elsbeth place. There hiked with Niece Jane. She left me in the dust on the way back, am getting old, but it was a great day, had not been on that trail for about 36 yrs. In those younger days, we went skinny dipping in the creek, now that pond is very crowded.

Niece Jane (daughter of sis Shirley)

Niece Cassandra (daughter of sis Elsbeth)

My youngest Niece Cassandra above, just graduated from High School. Will be going to the University Of California, At Santa Cruz. That is just over the hill (45 mi from home)

Drove all the way back “home” from LA, about 400 mi. Usually I only drive about 250 mi in a day, ending at around 2 pm setting down at some RV resort drinking a Bloody Mary and relaxing. But not that day. Got home and went up into the nearby mountains, to a county park. A most excellent place to hang out. No cell phone service, no robust internet. I could send and receive email though it takes 10 to 15 min to send or receive, Good enough. And I did have a Bloody Mary. Was there almost 3 weeks. Very peaceful, lots of tall trees, and great hiking trails. The city is only 3 miles ways, and friends 7 mi, but you feel totally isolated, love this place.

Spent some time figuring out how to transfer My Website with this blog, and my other website to a new server provider. So this will be the first blog published to this new server provider.  Hope I made a good choice. You must save this new web address (url link).

Have yet to transfer my photo gallery, hope to get that done in a few days. Otherwise lots of photo links will get broken on Jun 30th, when the old server discontinues.

Life is good !! very good, that I get to spend lots of time with my life friends. Above only three of them, Vickie, Elaine, and Cindy. What are we doing ? Training of course. Vickie will turn 50 in Jul, so she wants to celebrate by walking 50 miles in two days (25 mi per day). Of course we could not let her do it by herself, so five of us are doing it. We train and train doing 15 to 19 mile walks and hikes on a weekend day. We will do this adventure Jun 23rd and 24th. It will be another great adventure. Of course each training walk or hike is an adventure by it self.  Sometimes I think am not having enough fun :)

Lately, my left knee has been bothering me a lot, probably wear from many years of running, and remember an injury from high school wrestling. So am going to cheat to save my knee, am going to use a kick scoot. Have used it twice, it is great for my knee, but after 15 mi, it gets tiring on muscles that have not been used that way before.

This blog is getting long so will stop for now.