4/01/03




It is Monday morning on the desert and all is as it should be. The temperature is in the 90 degree range, the birds are chirping, the park is afloat with Seniors and I am at my computer. Ken has gone into town (Cathederal City) to get the brakes on the car checked and I am enjoying silence from the tv and war.
With the exception of brief personal notes to family and friends I am going to try and use patsgazette as my primary communication tool for two reasons. The first and primary reason is to reduce the amount of download time one has to endure to get my often less than interesting observations and two - give you a choice of deciding whether you want to read my nonsense at all.
Perhaps I will do a "spam" type advisory whenever I have posted a new "blog" onto the Gazette and then it will be up to you, my faithful readers, family and friends, to decide whether or not you want to go on line and see what the "old girl" has her "britches in a bunch" about this time. Also from time to time I will be posting photos from our adventures on the road and again, they are time consuming for downloading particularly when the quality may not justify the time on line.
This is a test of my ability to create a "post" off line and upload it into the GAZETTE. If I can perfect this simple actgion, maybe I will begin to get a feel for my ability to perform "on the road". Won't that be a kick?
I think this is enough for this trial and error program. More as the days go by!
Oh yes - just because I have implemented this way of boring, entertaining or communicating with all of you, do not erroneously conclude that you have been relieved of your responsibility to respond and/or keep in touch with us either via the "email me" choice at the end of each post or by our usual e mail address. To do so will, as time goes by, remove you from my address book! No threat - just fact!
Our son is already a prime candidate for "toast" in our mail box. Daughter may be next. I think our children think we are just two "old folks" lazing around and unworthy of their response. We parents get no respect!

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A quick note from the desert via patsgazette.com. Ken is off to Palm Springs and about this morning. Enjoying the laid back environment of the great American desert and like most Americans, consumed by the war coverage.

We expect to return to Glendale on Friday in order to provide baby sitting service to the cat while Terri is off to a wine country safari. Hope all is well with our friends etc. Mike has done some housekeeping work on the web page site so this has doubled as a test. Talk to you all later.