The April Lion

So what do you think of my "lame" palm tree? Out of desperation and due to limited skills, I roped Benjamin into placing something on the screen to remind us that we do actually live in this beautiful place. Better graphics are in the works!

We have been wondering what happened to the familiar adage, "March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb". We have been shivering under the clouds, wind and rain that have dominated our days of late. Our guests think the weather is great even with intermittent sun, esp. since their home areas are still considerably colder.

It certainly is easier to keep the house clean with the windows more closed and the dogs not running in and out as often. It's like having four little kids, considering their eight legs. Unless I grab them at the doggy door, they forget to "wipe their feet". After raising three sons, it is overall easier to deal with Simon and TJ. If you ever need a shot of endorphins, they are at the ready with love and kisses. Who would have thought that our feisty, pedigreed Tibetan Spaniel would have produced such amazingly sweet, mellow and absolutely adorable mutts who our vet refers to as a designer breed. Big points for their labrador genes.

I've begun again to tackle the massive gedcom file that a geneologist sent me a few years ago. It traced one of our lines to the 1600's. I've been painstakingly transferring it into the New Family Search program with my new computer. It has been so wonderful to have all of these options at my fingertips at home. Trouble is, I'd rather be doing this than cooking and cleaning and gardening. Between the pull of the microfilm reader in my project room and this, the house suffers. I remind myself of the old lady geneologists holed up in the church library; now I have become like them.

I have the BYU station on while still trying to multitask, watch, listen ,type and think.

Kent has been an angel tolerating my withdrawal from the society of the home. He does his thing in the evening (usually Church work) and I mine and we meet somewhere inbetween and play catch up on the weekends. He's off to Florida next week with the Coast Guard, but after our amazing trip to Florida last year, I decided to stay home this time. I'll join him in June for our Idaho/Utah/Wyoming trip. And---If Mike gets picked up with Alpine Air in a few months, then I'll have freeby flight priviledges again. Getting out of Hawaii is getting too expensive and we can always think of other ways to put the $$$ to better use.

We are thankful that we can leave the boys (woof) home with Benj. He's a good parent to them when we are away. The thought of a kennel is out of the question. In fact, we were just talking about how the possibility of considering a mission would be difficult before they go to doggy heaven. That might sound ridiculous to non-passionate dog lovers. But that's our reality. Now I realize why Grandma's comment,"you're nuts" had some merit when I fell for the two little furry eight week old pups. They really are like four year old children. And they try very hard to talk. OK so now you all know I'm nuts. Only my cousin, Sue would appreciate my sentiments.

As soon as possible, we will add a few pictures. Until another flow of consciousness strikes----Aloha.