What a fabulous weekend. Went to Truckee with the wife and kids and we had a blast. Saturday I watched the boy climb all over a rock chasing a lizard that he had happened upon. Despite his determination, the lizard was never captured. The girl was equally into all the antics as well, especially the walk on Sunday along the creek with an actual beaver dam. The kids did spot plenty of other cool stuff including but not limited to: snow plant, chipmunks, skeeter bugs, the above mentioned lizard, minnows, crawdad claws and various plants. They always asks me the names of things which I am all too happy to tell them. Unfortunately, the wife always steps in with the correct answer or quickly erases any information that I've pumped into their brain. I don't know how many times I've heard her tell the children, "kids...there is no such thing as a focasia tree/bush/animal/insect. It's the word Papa uses to describe any plant/tree/etc when he doesn't know. He thinks it sounds like a name that should be used." She's right, it should be used.


Last night we stopped in to visit the Country Griffith's. Talk about green acres, they are down right country bumpkins these days. Griff has all sorts of vegetables growing and they've got real live chickens. There is even some talk about putting in a bonafide cement pond in the back yard. Griff filled me up with some of his local moonshine and we ate chicken (hey wait a minute, weren't there three chickens here when I came in?). Anyway, the kids had a blast running around in the sprinklers, riding their bikes, finding frogs, etc. Griff was snapping pictures like a mad man so I'm sure he'll have a post up soon with all sorts of flattering content. Anyway, always good to catch up with Griff and his crew. Hope you are well.

Johnny GoFast