Good Intentions

I started this blog with the best of intentions. Was going to post to it every 2 to 3 days, at most. It is really amazing how things take on a different priority when one really doesn't know how much longer one will be chained to this Earthly existence. My main priorities, for now, are to forge an even stronger relationship with my wife, to share a hundred and one facts, figures, and bits of information with her in the hope she will find them somehow helpful, to bring to fruition some of the ideas that I've held, till now, only in my head, and to have a little fun.

Here it is, nearly a month and a half since my last post, and I've managed to do some of all of the above. After nearly ten years in the same house we are going crazy planting rose bushes and developing a real flower bed from land that had lain empty for about three years. We are finally fertilizing the lawn, too. It had gotten so bad that there was more brown than green, and what was green was as much weeds as grass. Hopefully that will soon change.

As for fun (and education) we've recently come back from a week at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. There is so much to be learned about Virginia and American history in these three places it boggles the mind. I especially enjoyed meeting Colonel George Washington in 1774. He does not, of course, favor taxation of the colonies, but he does think that as gentlemen we should be able to reach some civilized agreement with the King. Needless to say, things don't work out quite that way.

Perhaps there will be less time till my next post.