Hey, Everybody! Well, after having activated this blog a month ago, this is my first post, and, I hope, the beginning of a consistently-maintained journal of our lives here in Grass Valley for the benefit of the two or three folks who might check in every so often...but don't count on it. The best we can hope for are sporadic updates, probably, but why get bogged down with too much realism at the beginning? Still, if we even just half try, we should be able to make this work as one of the ways we can keep real-time connections alive with the people we care about who are scattered all over the place. Gradually I'll try to learn to use all the bells and whistles on this thing so that it will appear as though I eat new technology for breakfast, though most of you will know different. So, here goes...
A brief synopsis: We arrived here from the San Diego area, where we lived for 31 years, on April 11--nearly four months ago, now. All our stuff followed the next day. Since then, we've been trying to fit our Mars Way-shaped belongings into this new Echo Glen Rd. space with varying success. It went pretty quickly at first (dishes, bathroom, TV), then slowed down as areas needed to be customized a little or a lot. A big breakthrough was when all our books had homes. You can see some of the chaos on the website under ''moving in". We got Tom's office about 80% fixed up pretty early, so that he could work every day, comfortably. The timing for good Internet access (essential to his business, of course), was just about perfect, since a radio transmitter providing it was installed on a nearby hill about two weeks after we moved in. We were at the head of the line to get linked up. My job has been, and continues to be, getting us settled. My work spaces are still in process. We've had the privilege of hosting quite a few visitors, already, and have made a couple of trips away to visit others, ourselves. We've also been busy exploring our new habitat and learning about the culture and rhythm of this area. We'll expand on all of this a bit more in the next several postings. But this is a start. Feel free to chime in whenever you like about whatever! More soon!
Sandy
