http://www.patwatson.com Pat Watson will discuss family, travel, business and educational issues . Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:16:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been some time since I wrote on my blog.  There has been so much happening that I must admit, I forgot about it until the other day when Cyn said she hadn't seen anything for a long time...she was right. I started a new "old" job.  As the Director ... http://www.patwatson.com/as-life-goes-on/ It is always interesting to check out what type of trip you want to take, whether you want to take a cruise where all you have to do is relax and enjoy yourself without having to think about dinner or entertainment, or to plan out where you want to go ... http://www.patwatson.com/cruise-vs-land-trip/ There are many things of beauty in the state of Arizona but capturing two such totally different ideas was just a delight.  First there is the beauty of the Prickly Pear cactus that can be seen all over the area.  Take a walk in the desert and you will be ... http://www.patwatson.com/contrasting-beauty-in-arizona/ [caption id="attachment_570" align="alignleft" width="336" caption="Great guests"][/caption] We had a delightful time with our visitors from Russia this week.  Super nice ladies, each with their own sense of humor and stories.  Hopefully the balance of their trip will be successful too.  Of course, they were tired.  It seems that programmers just don't ... http://www.patwatson.com/russian-vistiors/ Tomorrow night we are going to have the privilege of having three Russian English teachers here for dinner.  One of them is from Stavropol which just tickles me so since that is the region the medial teams we worked with while I was with ICIU is from.  It will be ... http://www.patwatson.com/the-russians-are-coming/ This will be a great weekend and beginning of the week.  Bobbi and 4 of the 5 kids are coming down so that Papa Don, both Aunt Cyndi's and Aunt Heidi can meet Spencer.  Since Jake has a basketball game, his last for this year, they won't be here until late ... http://www.patwatson.com/the-family/ This has been a week to see and hear from old friends and it has been delightful.  Our friends from Ecuador have moved back to the states and are now in Oregon.  Health issues were part of the reason although they now seem to be well on the mend.  They ... http://www.patwatson.com/good-friends/ As we get older and think about how our life will be in a few years the one thing that makes us face up to the fact that we are not immortal is the loss of a friend or family member.  We may think we are, we may plan our ... http://www.patwatson.com/loss-of-a-friend/ Well, we got home in time for one day of warm and now it is getting cold again.  It may even snow in parts of the city on Tues.  Great!  Oh well, we know that it will be only for a couple of days and then back to warm. Friends of ... http://www.patwatson.com/warm-not/ [caption id="attachment_552" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Spencer and Grandma"][/caption] Spencer was born a week ago and is doing really, really well for a little bitty one.  Weighing in at just 6.3 lbs when she was born she was still bigger than K when she was born but oh my gosh, she's a little ... http://www.patwatson.com/the-new-baby-and-other-trivia/