Retirement Sabbatical Year of Discernment

  LesThora being towed to the Ford dealer in Fairfield.     Some of you may be familiar with the children's book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.  In that circular story if you give a mouse a cookie then the mouse is going to want a glass of milk and so on. Our story of LesThora being towed to Fairfield begins: If the campground gets firewood for the first time in a very long time on March 1, and continues: then Rob and Kathryn will have to move their bicycles out of the wood shed, and if they have to move the bicycles from the woodshed they'll have to put them on the bike rack on the back of LesThora, and to do that we'll have to move LesThora forward to more easily load the bicycles, and a week later when I want to ride my bicycle we'll have to move LesThora forward again to remove the bicycles from the rack, and that's when she wouldn't start - over two weeks ago. When we turned the key nothing happened - no lights on the dashboard and no engaging of the starte...

  March greeting from Straus and Elsie.     Straus and Elsie continue to thrive with RV life as half of the inhabitants of LesThora. This spot they're resting on, in their separate beds is where we'll usually find them. Their days are pretty lazy with occasionally chasing each other from one end of the RV to the other.  When we first were planning for this year of RV life we thought we'd need to find a home for them, but then we decided to bring them along and it has been a good decision. We enjoy their company, and they seem very content to be here with us. We find for us that cats are much easier pets in an RV than a dog would be. We have no problem leaving these two inside while we hike or work or even go away over night - not so easy with a dog. We do sometimes miss having a dog around though, and Rob makes friends with most of them that pass by, even overing them a dog biscuit. One of the many dogs Rob has offered a biscuit to. Last week on Monday and Tuesday, M...