We are stopping by the library once again to take advantage of their faster computers!  We plan to leave the sunny southwest on Saturday and head north to the cold and dark that is Wisconsin in the winter!  Here it is warm but the spring winds are upon us, gusting sometimes up to 60MPH and filling the house with a thin layer of dust, coating virtually every thing.

The dogs are doing well, TROUBLE is definitely pregnant and has taken to mooning around the house, eating voraciously and sleeping in until 8 a.m.  KAREN may be, she is off her food the past few days which is sometimes an early indication but sometimes it just means the dog isn't hungry.

We have been battling a little flu the past few days which has slowed us down some but not so much that we couldn't take in the Alamogordo Public Library Garden Party on Saturday complete with original western art auction!  We bought 2 great paintings and Jim also got an odd litho of a French street scene (!)  As his mom says, that is the way collections get started although any of our friends will readily comment that 'collections' started a long long time ago!