October 31st, 2007

Halloween

Here are some pictures of our little Turtle. Understand he was not happy about the hat.

An update on the Pet Insurance. If your pet has not been seen by the Vet in the last year they will require a visit. My Vet wants $50 for a physical for Winky. I decided not to put him on the plan.

Pet Insurance

After some careful consideration and talking with friends who all have story's about vet bills in the 800-1500$ range I have broken down and added Winky and Revel to a VPI Pet Insurance policy. I stuck to the basic policy as the vitamins and flea medications are not my concern. It's the 1000$ surgery that would follow revel eating a pair of socks. Not to mention the game of chase that ensued into the street where Winky glanced off a car managing to only nick his chin in the process (he's down to 8 life's or fewer). Could have been much worse and I am not going to be the one to say we cannot afford to put either of them right.

Here's the details cost about 24$ per pet. Pay two months up front. Covers all major illness and accidents at least to about 75%. You pay the bill and submit it on a paper form you can download from the web. If you have a pet and know your going to do what ever it takes to keep them healthy I would recommend it.

October 28th 2007

The weeks over and several things have happened. Wednesday was my last, last day at AdvantaCare. I turned in my badge and called it quits. While I really love building up the extra cash, the time is hard on all of us. I am working 40 hours a week and no more from now until I retire.

Saturday was fun, played tennis in the morning, took Edward for a drive, then spend a few hours looking after Gavin. Gavin and I went for a walk then came home to do a quick photo shoot in his cute little "My First Halloween" outfit. Many of the photos are available in larger format in the Picaso web site.

In the afternoon Teddy and I worked on adding a new a new plug in one of the kitchen walls. We also had to move the cable TV from the island to the same wall. It took several hours and Teddy did all the wiring. I was most impressed, and very happy to do the ugly work (I crawled under the house to move the cable wire).

Sunday Edward and I went bowling as we do every other weekend. Edward has gotten very good. He has bowled as high as a 158 this month. His current average is 124.2. You will notice in the one picture that we record all scores into my IPAQ pocket Excel. He has learned what an average is an how to manipulate the scores in Excel to find the highest, and lowest scores.

It was a very nice weekend. Got some small walks in with Revel but Dorothy was out sick with a very bad cold so we had to stay close to home.

October 14th, 2007

Its been over a month since my last post. Sorry to all those of you who live for this. Hard to believe but I think there are one or two of you. Not much new around the house. I have been working AdvantaCare and Watsonville Hospital. Dorothy and the Teddy are back in school. Teddy is very involved with the drama department. Even being in the next production, hard to believe for the shy kid in the class. We are looking forward to the performance. Edward has been working with Community Options and he is doing very well there. Amber and the baby are here pictures of Gavin later. We did a bit of a photo shot today. Kid really is easy to photograph.

On the 30th of September Elda and I took a hike with my friends Mary, Marybeth and Crystal. We all really enjoyed Garland ranch. Revel and I have done several hikes of 4-6 miles. Capitola, Santa Cruz, and Manresa. The house is holding up fairly well. Revel has won the battle over the bench cushions. They will only be used when we are there to watch them. I will be replacing at least two of them. The curb on the front of the house is attracting skateboarders. I have turned my mean sadistic side to this problem and come up with several options intended to stop this activity.

On October 10th we took Teddy and Amber out to dinner on his birthday. He turned 17 this year. He is growing up very very fast. He is really a wonderful father. Over the next year I hope to work with him on the financial responsibility involved in having a family. Hopefully he will embrace this challenge as well as he has the other parts of fatherhood.

I will try to be better about future posts. My job at AdvantaCare is ending next week. I am turning in by employee badge and taking the temptation to work extra out of my life.

Last shot Revel after his favorite activity of the day. Six miles to Manresa beach and back. "A Tired Dog is a Happy Dog"