This Weeks Update [3/27/16] - Happy Easter and Happy Early Birthday to GJ

[The Weekly Update is an email that was started in the fall of 2010 to keep family and friends informed of my medical condition and has continued as a review of family activities.  Written by Zelma and edited by Steve. Working on adding past issues to the blog.]


Hi All,

Matthew's spring recess has come to an end and GJ and I took him back to Oswego today.  He made good progress on his various writing assignments.  He also received his first round of thesis comments back from his adviser.  More to do on that this week, but as he says, feedback was good (aka not a complete do-over).

While Matthew was home we celebrated an early 86th birthday for GJ today.  Her actual birthday is on the 30th (Wednesday).

Miles for the week are 63, miles for 2016 are 828 and total miles are 16,392.

Take care,

Zelma

This Weeks Update [3/20/16] - Matthew Home for Spring Recess

[The Weekly Update is an email that was started in the fall of 2010 to keep family and friends informed of my medical condition and has continued as a review of family activities.  Written by Zelma and edited by Steve. Working on adding past issues to the blog.]


Hi All,

This week seemed to fly by.  Friday, Matthew came home.  He has a week off from class for "spring recess" - which looks more likely to be better known as writing boot camp.

The time so far has been spent trying to put the last pieces of his thesis together.  The house looks like a thesis disaster zone with books, binders, printouts, laptops and the printer covering all the surfaces in the kitchen and the front room.  My proofreading eyes are also starting to cross.

Fortunately, Granny Joyce has been making us dinner, so Matthew has not had to disturb his work zone.  After his thesis is sent off to his adviser in the morning, then there are 5 more writing assignments to start on. :-)

Miles for the week are 77, miles for 2016 are 765, and total miles are 16,329.

Take care,

Zelma

This Weeks Update [3/13/16] - Thinking Spring

[The Weekly Update is an email that was started in the fall of 2010 to keep family and friends informed of my medical condition and has continued as a review of family activities.  Written by Zelma and edited by Steve. Working on adding past issues to the blog.]


Hi All,

It was a quiet week.  We did get a mid-week teaser with record warm weather [75F on Wednesday the 9th]- a little rain and wind and a lot of being at work deterred any outside riding. Can't say I was glad to lose an hour of sleep this morning, but it was nice to see that it is still light outside after 6.

The puzzle for the week was picked because it looked to me the most like spring.  :-)

"Uncle Jack's Topiary Tendencies" by Charles Wysocki from Buffalo Games & Puzzles

Miles for the week are 63, miles for 2016 are 688, and total miles are 16,252.

Take care,

Zelma

This Weeks Update [3/6/16] - Pretty Quiet Week

[The Weekly Update is an email that was started in the fall of 2010 to keep family and friends informed of my medical condition and has continued as a review of family activities.  Written by Zelma and edited by Steve. Working on adding past issues to the blog.]


Hi All,

This week was uneventful and as I sat down to write this note, I thought I can't wait until we have an outside biking picture to attach instead of a puzzle. :-)

Maybe we will get lucky and our relatively mild winter will turn into an early spring.  Next week's forecast is predicting at least 1 day above 60... now if it could also not be raining.

This week's puzzle is another one from Steve's archives.  The ground in this one was deceptively hard.  [The process was also complicated by me knocking over Zelma's wine onto the puzzle about half way through. -Steve]

Miles for the week are 62, miles for 2016 are 625, and total miles are 16,189.

Take care,

Zelma