well getting ready to travel -----

… so in the meantime since Christmas Day we did indeed depart from Panama leaving behind grandsons and son and daughter-in-law and returned to the Capital City.   Here we have a wonderful house guest.  Yes, the famous Kate.  It is great.  She laughs at my jokes, so all is well.  

We have had an infrequent visitor to the back yard.  I do not seem him often, our neighbors who vigilantly watch the cut-de-sac see him and his friends much more often.

We have had precious little of this.  This was the most.  Stopped school for several days as it came midst a stretch of extreme cold.  About the only stretch we had as it has been a spring like winter.

See like it was 20 or something.

Mark and I amused ourselves going to watch Weak Forest attempt to play basketball again this season.  Here we see one of our stalwarts attempting — operative word "attempt"  — a free throw.  We miss more of these than any other team in the conference.

Getting ready for a turnover.  We do these real well or perhaps "real good" I should say.  We do however enjoy the fellowship of friends and the entertainment value of "hope springs eternal"

Which indeed it does.  We are preparing to be on the road again.  New direction this time — Europe.

and we leave the daffodils just getting going as they should, though they have been started for a while.