I'm now home.  Anne is in San Francisco.  Today she and Alex watched the colorful Bay to Breakers run that passed Alex's apartment.  He has begun hand therapy and is showing some improvement.  With luck he will tough it out and restore full function.  We dread painful relapses.

Returning from the coast I was surprised to find the forest still gray here.  Over the past couple of weeks the green curtain has formed around our house.  The wood thrushes and scarlet tanagers are singing.  Bird migration is in full swing.  I'm enjoying this but missing Anne.  Our spring RV voyage as been ash-canned.  I'm working on various chores.

Elley will make a brief visit to her Mom and brother next weekend.  She is doing a study with a group from San Francisco and so will be making a buisness and pleasure trip.  She begins her occupational therapy education in NYC when she returns home.  Hurrah for that.  I may visit Princeton and Brooklyn after her return and before Anne's. 

We are preparing for our planned Peruvian expedition in September.  I'm trying to learn about a thousand birds and refresh my Spanish.  We plan to stay for a week or so after the tour ends and relax in the Andes.

Heavy rain here last week.  It dampened our basement and closed the roads, but now all that moisture is allowing the forest to burst into full foliage.  Still having brisk nights and fresh days.  Our pellet stove died and we replaced it with a new generation machine that literally turns itself on and off by thermostat.  Oh, so much easier to use and more efficient. 

I work on paving our driveway.  I have finished the rough grading by hand.  That was quite a project, but it let me set what I hope will be an ideal line and grade.  I'll see what the contractor thinks.

That's all for now.  One bit of good news.  The Humane Society and SPCA have been forced to pay millions of dollars to the Ringling Brothers Circus for their bogus litigation.  It may not be punishment enough, but it is a start.