Heading East

On Friday we are going on a two week vacation to the East coast.

Mims is picking us up at JFK Friday night and we'll spend the weekend in Connecticut. We're looking forward to seeing Elaine and the kids. We haven't seen them in two years.

We're hoping to spend some time with Jean as well. She told us she just got back from a brief vacation at the Jersey Shore.

Aimee has friends in the NYC area who are planning to meet up with us while we are there.

Then we are headed to Endwell, NY to visit Aimee's brother Nils and mom and dad. We haven't seen them since the summer of '06 when they lived in Georgia. That time, Nils was out of town so we haven't seen him since we got married.

One day will be spent about an hour and a half up the road at Cooperstown.

Rosebud will be staying with a former workmate of Aimee's who has taken her before. There is another dog there who enjoys Rosebud's company.

Hopefully Rosebud will be glad to see us after 15 days.

Bass Lake Photos

Some photos of our trip to Bass Lake.

Rosebud had her own tent, which she flipped end over end one night. It did not phase her though, she just slept on the bottom of her pet bed.



Mark scored a double ringer in a game of horse shoes to steal the game away from the girls in one turn. Rosebud does not seem all that impressed.



She did, however, seem to enjoy her new chair.

Bass Lake

We are heading out for a long weekend to Bass Lake, which is just outside of Yosemite National Park.

It's the same place we've been to the last couple of Summers. This year will be Rosebud's second time coming with us.

We are spending three nights at a campground spot about a hundred yards or so from the water's edge. Rosebud has her own little tent set up right next to ours.

She seems to enjoy going camping........and swimming, too.

Even the ride up there goes smoothly because she sleeps for the whole 4 hour plus trip.

New Shed

We spent a good part of the weekend tearing down an old metal shed that was in the backyard and clearing out the space for a new and larger one to go in its place.

This one is a durable vinyl material that should hold up very well for a long time.

It was quite a bit of work and we had a guy come over on Sunday to help with the install.

There's quite a bit more room inside the new shed without taking up too much space in the yard.
We were able to move a workbench, some shelving units and a bunch of other stuff out of the garage and into the shed; and still there's plenty of room inside.

Thankfully, the garage is less cluttered and better organized. Plus, we'll be able to park both cars in there.


In the picture above, our plum tree can be seen on the left. We planted it three years ago and this summer was the first time we got fruit from it.
They are a little better than golf ball-sized and very tasty.

Dinner at Wimbledon

I just finished watching the Federer-Nadal Championship match from Wimbledon.

Well, I watched as much as I could.

Since Aimee and I had much to do on Sunday morning, I recorded the match and planned to watch it on Sunday night.

Around 7:30 pm we popped in the DVD and settled down to watch a great tennis match. As you may know, the start was delayed by rain. Then, there was another rain delay in the third set.

After Federer won the fourth set tiebreaker to force a fifth I knew we had a problem. Our recording was only six hours long and this match was already five and a half hours past the scheduled start time.

As I was watching the fifth set, with time running out, the rain came again. That's when the recording ran out.....2-2 in the fifth.

My hope was that this delay would be a long one so that it would be too dark to continue and they'd have to play the rest of the match on Monday.

I checked online..........no such luck.

Nadal won the longest Mens Final ever, 9-7 in the fifth. Apparently, the match was only moments away from being suspended for darkness when it ended. So, I missed the end.

That's the way it goes. Wimbledon.org and NBCSports.com both have video of the match available, but I would have liked to have seen it 'live.'

New Blog

Welcome to our new blog.

Oftentimes we don't really have much to report in the way of interesting news.
Much of our time is spent on routine stuff that doesn't seem like it would be very newsworthy to anyone else.

But occasionally we might be able to come up with something worth sharing, even if it is just a little thing. That is why we have TheThomasonsUpdate.

(well, that and also because it is free and we thought it might be kind of fun)

This way, you can check in with us when it is convenient for you. I can't promise that the posts will be fascinating or frequent, but the cost to you will be minimal.

Check in as often or as little as you want......we won't know.

If there is anything we think is worth sharing.....we'll try to get it on here.