For one day out of the year, Nina and I are the same age. That was yesterday. Today she’s a day older and I’m a year older. I’ve made it all the way to 72 years of age. And we’re in the process of going full circle. I was born in Tooele, Utah. Tomorrow I’ll make the downpayment on a house to be built for us in Tooele, Utah. After looking all up and down the area, that turned out to be the best option for us.

We’ve just returned from a week-long visit to our daughter and her four children in Chandler, Arizona. We had a delightful visit and enjoyed getting to know our three grandsons down there again and to really get to know our new granddaughter. She was just a year old when we left on the mission, so she has no memory of us. Our granddaughter did a great job of teaching her about us so the visit with her went extremely well. Our daughter rode back with us from Chandler and will fly back home later this afternoon.

Since we now live in North Salt Lake rather than in Hawaii, I needed to get enrolled with a new doctor at the VA Medical Center in Salt Lake. Dr. Lebedoff has taken over those duties from Dr. Uchida. She was excellent and I received outstanding medical care while I was over there. She apparently finished at about the same time as well as she no longer works for the VA…. My move here was definitely timely as I would have been seeing a new doctor anyway! In preparing for my first meeting with Dr. Lebedoff I put together a list of all the significant medical issues I have. The list was not only impressive but somewhat depressive. It’s a long list and in many ways I’m pleased to see the 72nd birthday and feel as well as I do!

So, Happy Birthday Nina (yesterday) and Happy Birthday Me (today). we’re on our way to another year of adventures! Ta ta for now!