I'm Still Here Enjoying the California Poppies . . .

Happy Spring Sunday!

I'm still here in Loomis and have been busy with family activities and surgery preparation; so I apologize for being out of touch with my wonderful "virtual friends."  I hope all are continuing to enjoy Spring 2014 wherever you are.  I'll get back to posting soon.

Before I retired I always seemed to be too busy to slow down and just enjoy the wonders of nature and the view of our wonderful world.  I am so enjoying This Spring back in California . . . and we've even had some good rain.  I hope we haven't seen the last of it because we need so much more; but it's not as bad as when I got here!

Above is what our hills look like now . . . in a couple of months they'll be golden brown again and our Oak trees will depend on water deep in the ground

Our State Flower, the California Poppy is in full bloom almost everywhere you look.

New news:  Samantha, one of my son Jeff's 14-year old twins, was injured in a girls basketball game two weeks ago today.  She fractured the top of her right tibia (big bone in lower leg) and had surgery complete with placement of screws and is now recovering.  She'll go back to school tomorrow but will continue rehab for 4-5 months.  The docs say she'll be able to return to her traveling soccer team next year.  She's been a real trouper and we'll both be in right-knee-rehab mode together.