YAY, You’re Here!
January 19, 2025
Lisa and Claire have a welcome mat at their home in Ann Arbor that I comment upon every time I see it. We were at the Davis Food Coop picking up some stuff a couple days ago and Claire noticed this mat on display in front of the store. So… she bought it for us!
Is that great, or what?
Not an Early Spring
January 18, 2025
Every year, around the arb, there are these four trees that burst into bloom in January, and every year I say, wow, isn’t it a bit early for spring?? Today walking around the creek with Lisa, Claire and Scouters, we came upon those four trees and wouldn’t you know, they were in full bloom! January 18.
Claire looked them up. They are Japanese Apricots and are known for blooming in late winter… expected to bloom in late winter. For us in Davis, that is January. So, well done, Japanese Apricots!
It was cold!! 36 degrees when we started the walk, 52 degrees when we ended it.
Scout
January 17, 2025
Our first four-legged guest.
I’ll admit, we had some concerns, but she turned into a wonderful guest! She’s well behaved and sweet. Not to mention super soft. I do get why people love their dogs.
Oh, Scout came with owners Lisa and Claire, surrogate parents to Peter for the last four and half years in Ann Arbor. Their lovely relationship started when Peter landed in A2 in the August of 2020 – peak COVID — and was largely sequestered in his coop, unable to travel home for Thanksgiving or Christmas that year, and got from L&C a heavy dose of family love and support.
I do think of Lisa (and now Claire) as family, as Lisa is a famed Hesse girl… one of the 13 kids (three families with nine daughters and four sons between them) who grew up together celebrating Christmas Eves (and a variety of other holidays and gatherings) for a couple of decades. Our dads worked together in the go-go era of aerospace in LA. Lucky us girls, we’ve all stayed in touch and are quite the sisterhood. Particularly nice for me, having zero sisters and three brothers. One could say I had three brothers, sure, but gained eight sisters in the deal.
And a dog!
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