1. My sister-in-law Pamela has been blogging literally every day this year. I’m really impressed. That’s some great dedication, S-i-L!
2. I’m kind of being a bachelor as Nina is currently in Chandler, Arizona visiting with our daughter Jaelene and family. She’ll be there long enough to go to a baseball Spring Training game. That should be a lot of fun.
3. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon our oldest grandson Christopher, who is preparing to leave on an LDS Church mission to Singapore / Malaysia, came up from North Salt Lake to spend the evening and this morning with me. I had a great time … he’s a fine young man and really fun to be with. He went with me to my weekly Rotary Club meeting, then went along as we did our weekly Amateur Radio Emergency Service radio network exercise. We then had dinner at Chili’s and ended the evening watching the woman’s Olympics short program on TV. He went back home early this afternoon.
4. The Olympics have definitely dominated my time since they started. I love the winter Olympics and the competition has been outstanding. This year I’ve been very impressed with the snowboarding events. What a great addition to the Olympics.
5. Last Sunday grandson Christopher was the featured speaker in his Ward’s Sacrament Meeting. He had about a half-hour of time available to him and he used it to perfection. Even though I’m a bit biased, that was one of the best departing-missionary talks I’ve ever heard. Since Nina was going from there to Chandler, we drove down in two cars. I went over to Soda Springs to pick up my mother so she could be there for Christopher’s talk. She really enjoyed the visit. We stayed until Monday morning and came back north while Nina went south.

And that’s the way it is. Ta Ta for Now!