This and that...

So, I vowed to write more often and I haven't done very well with that pledge. I always seem to think nothing is going on, when there's actually quite a lot going on...for instance...

My half brother Bob came to see me and we had a perfectly nice visit. His resemblance to Daddy is uncanny and his mannerisms, the way he throws his arm over his head while watching TV, are crazy weird...DNA is an amazing thing. He may look like Daddy but he does not act or sound like him. He has SUCH a southern California accent...

Spring has sprung here in Southern Colorado. My aspen trees have leafed out and I was delighted to discover that two of my baby trees had babies of their own over the winter. I have two tiny 30inch high aspen trees sprouting underneath mom and dad. They're so cute when they're little!

Business is still going nowhere fast...getting a little concerned, haven't had a new client at all this year...pretty sad...

But after watching Michael J. Fox's show "Always Looking Up," I feel better. What a great show, and I'm sure his book is great too. I do think I'm an optimist, I"m always pretty happy, for the most part...but as I've gotten older I think my optimism has been tempered my realism, but that's to be expected. His show was very uplifting and makes you stop to think about your reaction to things that happen in life.


So...I've had what I've considered to be a sprained wrist for several weeks now..maybe 4-6 weeks or so...hurts to bend my wrist back, etc. I've had a ton of sprains before and they usually go away after a few days. Well, this one didn't...I bought a small brace and I've been sleeping in it and wearing it as often as I can...but it's not better...and now there's swelling at the base of my thumb...so, I looked it up online, as Jennifer would (LOL!) and self-diagnosed myself with a scaphoid fracture of the wrist. I'm pretty sure that's what's wrong...the symptoms fit perfectly. Trouble is, I haven't fallen or done anything that could have broken it...so I have no idea what's going on...I guess I will have to go to the Doc now because the pain is worse and it's been too long for it to be just a sprain. Plus, the documents I read said if you wait too long it can not heal properly...so I shall call the Doc tomorrow and get an appointment. Sounds like a cast is needed in all cases...sigh...not looking forward to that...any bets on whether I'll be right? I could challenge Jen to a self-diagnosis contest...we seem to do a lot of it. LOL

Yesterday I took Rio to Helen Hunt Falls to play in the water and boy did he have a blast chasing pine cones and sticks down stream. He stayed away from the actual waterfall though...he doesn't like water that "sprays," I guess it reminds him of the dreaded hose...looking forward to summer when I can take him camping and get him to the lake again to swim...

Been really missing Mom and Auntie and Madge lately...there are days when something will happen, something really mundane, but something they would have loved hearing about...and I really begin to miss them. They were always happy to hear my voice and always interested in what was going on in my life and I do miss that "interest" from others. Been missing Auntie a lot since her birthday just passed.

Anyway, working on a new blog called Colorado Vibes. Jan has been buying vintage postcards from Colorado on eBay and we've had a blast going through them. Most of them have letters on the back with postmarks of 1903, 1909, 1911...so they are REALLY old. It's been a blast reading them. I've been scanning them in for the blog...plan to put my photography on there, as well as trip blogs...I used to have that web site called Circles and Lines and now I want to do something similar but with a little more writing. Anyway, the postcard collecting has been fun....

Okay, that's it for now...just wanted to write because I haven't in a while :)