2017 has not been the best or worst year for us. However the last month and a half has really been reaching for the latter title. Helen and I came down with a nasty strain of flu which in my case turned into Bronchitis and the two of us spent the last 10 days pretty much lying in bed and taking medicines that the doctors prescribed us. the last month and a half have been pretty rough on us. We barely had enough energies to actually open up the Christmas gifts we had for e

Our apologies for not posting much lately, but the day after Thanksgiving a very dear friend who'd been fighting cancer for over a year took a bad turn and we lost her a few days later. She'd been a huge part our lives for over 25+ years and had been like a sister to both of us. We've been trying to help her husband who is back up in Sacramento (we're down in the Monterey Bay area) from a distance as best we can. We've been limited in what we could do because Helen just st