Wednesday, February 12, 2003

GOOD MORNING - It is raining in Glendale this morning and it not the usual sprinkles measuring three drops to the acre. It is raining as in big rain drops, the likes of which we so seldom see. This is good!

We are awaiting word from the RV dealer who will alert us when our RV is ready for pickup. They are correcting and fine tuning some 30 items on our list of complaints that should have been perfected before delivery. We love our RV and believe in its quality, but competence seems to be lacking every where these days. When the work is completed, we will go forth to Arizona and putter in the hinterlands thereabouts until early March. We plan to spend two weeks in the desert area, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs during mid-March. Later in the month, Ken wants to join a gathering of RV'ers in Pomona for a RV rally where seminars and RV related insights will be offered to further acclimate us into this new past time on which we have embarked. I can hardly wait! (not).

In April we will celebrate grandson Sean's 14th birthday -- where does time go? -- and then we are meeting two couples in Las Vegas for a reunion of friendships established during our trip to Spain in 2000.

In May, my niece Zoe will drop by for a brief visit en route to Reno for a bowling competition and May 9, we depart for a three week stint in the "sunshine" state.

Tentatively, our plans are to celebrate our grandson's graduation from elementary school on June 8 and then depart on a three - four week trek up the Coast, hopefully with Ken's brother, Don,and his wife Linda. July 15 returns us to California to celebrate granddaughter Lauren's birthday, followed by some other family events that month.

All of this, of course, is contingent upon our freedom to move about within a society free from terror and the fanatics who dwell within that oviously flawed "psyche". Talk about freedom. When we were young we looked to the day when we would have the time to enjoy the fruits of the labor in which we were engaged. As I look back on those days, I now wonder if I was too busy to do the things that would preserve that freedom. As a result, I now perhaps selfishly conclude that I permitted too many of my freedoms to be sacrificed to provide freedom for those who sought not freedom but dominance. As the reality of where we are today becomes more apparent to me within my limited understanding, I find myself more dedicated to the American ideals and American principles in which I believe and for which our forefathers paid a great price..

Have a good day!


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