Running on the Beach

Photos are uploading again....Okay. We have quite a backlog, then.
This is on the Oregon Coast--Lincoln City. More later. I was just testing to see if it worked.

Several months

I know it has been some time since I've posted here. Periodically, I try to upload pictures, but it still doesn't seem to work. I just give up at that point.

Everyone is doing well. Not even all that much sickness so far this year. We haven't gone anywhere or done anything particularly unusual. We had a nice, if quiet, holiday season. Went to Seattle with the Lewellen's to go ice skating. The best part of that was watching Miranda ride the ferris wheel. In other words, ice skating is not my strong suit. Neither was it Jackson, who went around twice and cheerfully said, "I can't do this." Indeed, he couldn't, though he wasn't any worse than I was. Miranda did great with this little device, like a walker, that helped you keep balance...until they took it away from her. She was too tall to be using it, apparently. Sandy probably likes skating the best, but she didn't even go...was tending to Peter.

We're humming along a lot like that.

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For some reason, I'm not able to upload photos lately. That's the reason for the dearth of posts.

All are doing great here. We've all been sick some. Sandy pretty badly a couple of weeks back; I with laryngitis (I know, I know, finally a break for those around me); and the young Miltons mild colds.

Anyway, maybe someday soon the photos will upload again.
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Delicacies

I hope he's not allergic to peanuts.


Sandy, her mother, and I went to see Bill Cosby last night. Mim has always liked him, so we took her for birthday. Maybe this eating sequence reminds me of his goofy pudding ads.

He was charming, maybe even quaint. Funny, if somewhat predictable (he did a bit about dentists that I remember hearing when I was a child).

He made a few comments about sociological issues--he's become very controversial in the black community for his diatribes against general irresponsibility, especially absentee fathers--but kept saying, "I'm not being political about this." Pity, I think I'd rather have enjoyed that. See his now famous "pound cake" speech.

Of course, it wasn't really the audience for that--I think I saw 8 or 10 black folks. And Sandy and I were well below the average (median, mode, and mean) age.

One year

Thursday, October 16

The celebration of our homecoming with Peter.

Auntie Fawn & Peter before the dinner celebration.

Some days later...a sweet moment after getting home.

Tomorrow

October 16, was the day we picked Peter up in Atlanta.

Peter, about a week old.

It has been quite a year.

He has been a delightful addition to the Milton family.

And he looks good in hats, doesn't he?

Wanting a private moment...?

On October 2, we celebrated his birthday. Sorry, all the picture's were grainy.

An unbelievable surprise...or surprisingly unbelievable?

He looks pretty surprised, too.

And he has been the delight of his mother's heart.

But I didn't have to tell you that.

Bye...for now

We'll be taking a little hiatus from this blog. Starting back up at school is taking a lot of time--new building, new technology (I have to do a class web page, for instance), etc.

More later,
The Miltons