(Linda's the pretty one!)
(Linda's the pretty one!) |
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June 21, 2009 -- John had a wonderful Father's Day!! Had a bit of extra time so he decided to update our home page. We returned from our road trip to Washington state on June 9th. It was a wonderful adventure. Each day we added to our travelogue and uploaded Flash photo galleries. Each time we updated the travelogue, we emailed our list of "subscribers" (friends and family) with a notification. The travelogue and photo galleries are complete and you can access them by clicking here. We'll tell you a couple of "quirky" things about the trip and show you a couple of the photos from the 300+ that are in the galleries just to whet your appetite. It was early in the morning when we first started and we were busy chatting and forgot to turn on the radio. It seemed nice. So, we left the radio off the entire trip. No audio in the vehicle except for human voices and Maggie Mae barks and sighs. Every evening, we worked on the travelogue and preparing the photo galleries. Never turned on a TV in the motel room. |
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The free family portrait shoot that John is spear-heading for the Morgan Hill Photography Club had to be postponed. It was scheduled for the day before Father's Day and he couldn't get enough volunteers to do the shoot. Now, one of the club members is going to teach a six hour class in portrait photography during early August. It will be good to re-schedule this community service event to happen shortly after that training session. Grandson Isaac had his second birthday party on 6/14, though the real date is 6/29. His mom, Jennifer, expecting twins toward the end of the month thought it would be good to get that out of the way. Of course, John took lots of photos of Isaac and his friends and relatives and they are in the Old Buzzard's Photo Gallery which you can access a bit further down this page. When the twins arrive and Jennifer comes home from the hospital, Linda will be moving in with Jennifer and the twins for a couple of weeks to help out. John just shakes his head and cannot imagine how difficult it must be for someone who doesn't have anyone to help them for a while. |
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John is still doing his software consulting job, but thinks he's near the end of it. Hopefully, it will be wrapped up before summer's end. We are still enjoying the Centennial Recreation Center and are trying to get back into using it on a more regular basis. It is such a wonderful place and they are going to be expanding the fitness room and have added a beautiful skate park which opens in a couple of weeks. Believe it or not, we are starting to plan our next road trip. Our current thinking is to go up the Northern California and Oregon coast line on Hwy 101. This means we can go through Petaluma and visit our son, Jay. He's been to visit is many times since he has moved to his new home, but we have yet to go up there. Shame on us! |
| Early in August, the Morgan Hill Photography Club is going to have a "shootout" at Point Lobos. We're thinking of trying to attend that if the new twins cooperate. A "shootout" is just an organize club "out"ing to "shoot" pictures. We haven't been able to attend one yet and are looking forward to it. | |
We're working less and less at the old print shop and that's been really nice. It's beginning to feel like we actually are retired. John was to teach a Perl programming class at Gavilan this fall but it was cancelled due to the sad state of California's budget. Suits us just fine! In fact, there was sort of a plan to teach Visual Basic again in the Spring of 2010, but after discussions with the school, it looks like that isn't going to fly either. Those two classes don't get enough enrollment to make them financially viable for the school. |
"Talk about adding insult to injury! Not only did we arrive late, but they deliberately left his organ-donor card." ~by Gary Larson |
We've put some interesting photos on the website. At least, they must be interesting to us, or we wouldn't be sharing them. We'll add to / change them as often as possible, so be sure to check back. All of the individual galleries are now done Flash. We can now do captions on each photo and you can view them as a slide show. We hope you will enjoy this new format! You can get to the photo gallery by clicking here. As always, just close the photo gallery window to return here. |
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So now we've started a collection of comic strips with characters that are.... you guessed it, buzzards. As we find more and more of them, we'll scan them in and add them to this section of the website. Hopefully, our guests will find them humorous. Click here to go to the comics..... |
| What events are coming up in the lives of the two old buzzards? You can find out just by clicking here and looking at the Buzzard's Roost Event Calendar. |
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| We still have our little knife business going (online only now) as we still have loads of really nice inventory. We've recently moved most of it from Hot Spot Printing to the house, but still have a couple of cartons to move. If you need a great idea for a gift, clock on the buzzard above and visit our knife web page. It opens in a separate window so when you close it, you'll return to this very spot! Ain't technology grand? |
Page Last Updated 6/21/2009 |
