Coming Soon....

Happy May Day, Everyone!

After sending blast-o-gram messages to family and friends over the past few months while Cary recovered from surgery, I finally decided to take the plunge and start a blog... just in time to be tapped for jury duty. Guess I can scratch that off my list of Things I Haven't Done Before Hitting 40.

So while this blog may start off slower than I'd intended, it's starting nonetheless! I hope it will help our friends across the country and around the world (I'm lookin' at you, Mitchell and Fraser) stay in touch -- and maybe even introduce us to new ones.

With new friends in mind, let me tell you a bit about us:

Cary and I met while working at Hewlett-Packard. Not only were we on the same team, we had adjoining cubes, both had a dog, both drove Datsuns -- and were both untangling ourselves from our "practice marriages." We made a pact that if either talked about remarrying, the other would smack him or her right upside the head. Neither of us saw the loophole.

We've been married more than 10 years now. Our original dogs, Sassy and Conner, are no longer with us, but four black mutts -- Miele, Annye, Tripper, and Sherman -- have joined us over the years.

"Four dogs? Are you crazy?" you may wonder.

Sometimes I wonder that, too. Like when all four charge the front door like a pack of wolverines. Or when we're walking in the pouring rain before the sun's even come up. There really is a (semi-)rational reason as to why we have "all those dogs," as some have described them, but I'll save that for a later post.

For now, thanks for reading and stay tuned!