Another busy few weeks

The later part of Februrary and the first part of March were busy as usuall. A number of Carols co-workers wanted to take me (Eric) out to celebrate my 50th birthday. Wow, another celebration of my birthday, I think my waist line has had enough of that. Well, we it was a very nice evening with all of these great people from the HR department of CAL-FIRE.

We also bid goodbye to a neighbor Susan who has been living full time in her fifth wheel. She retired from her job at VSP, a vision care insurance company. She is chasing her dream (and ours) of living on the road and seeing this great country of ours. Please be sure to check out her blog at www.whatsupwithsusanandcompany.blogspot.com.

We've had some good news on our oldest dog Roxy recently. When we got paid the other day, we were able to take Roxy in for a check up. We've been waiting the last 3 years thinking she had cancer and that her days were numbered, but with the exception of her arthritic hips, she has been going strong as long as we blend her food every day. The consensous is that she's got scar tissue not a tumor going from her stomach to her small intestine. So, as long as we keep blending her food, she should be around quite a while longer.

Speaking of dogs, Rosie, has been such a wonderful addition to our family, we are so happy she is part of our life. She still continues to have some seperation anxiety. So, every once in a while she takes out her anxiety on something in our home. The other day, we came home to find that she had dug a hole in the couch. Oh well, nothing a little needle and thread wouldn't fix.

We are also glad to welcome to our extended family, Cowboy, an Australian Shepperd. Carol's brother Calvin adopted Cowboy from Brandee and Kevin after it was determined, Cowboy was going to pose too much of a challenge to their livestock.

My old boss John Pinola Jr has retired after 13 years working at Volcano communications. John was just as fed up with Volcano as I was and needed to move on. I was glad to be able to go to Teresa's in Jackson to join John and a large number of my fellow co-workers at Volcano to celebrate John's service to the company. The general consensous is that Volcano's days are numbered. Because of the loss of state subsidies, many of us don't expect Volcano to exist 3 year from now. It would be sad if everyone at Volcano loose there jobs.

Later this week, we will be headed off to Calistoga too enjoy a three day weekend in the motorhome. Stay tuned at our blog for more pictures and stories from that trip.

Happy camping! Eric and Carol