Am still working on various projects. Made a picnic table and benches for son Rob for his March 5th birthday.
Also built myself a new workbench, 
and (after all these years) I'm putting a nice floor in the laundry area of our basement.
Kathie and I just returned from a long weekend in Rhode Island to visit Jessica and her cat, Ozzie.
She and her friend Mike 
are both students at Johnson and Wales University, where they are completing culinary programs with BA degrees. The New England area is a great place for seafood, of course. We had an exceptional dinner, beginning with six different kinds of fresh oysters. 
Also drove down to Newport and toured one of the "little weekend homes" that many of the nation's wealthiest individuals built there in the late 1800s and early 1900s (Vanderbilts and others). 
The flight home from Detroit to Cedar Rapids may well have been the worst flying experience of my life. We flew through or over that bad storm that passed through the midwest on Sunday. At one time they spoke of diverting us to Des Moines or Omaha, but we did finally land in Cedar Rapids. I've never seen so much lightening outside a plane window nor have I been in a plane so buffeted. Not fun. Glad to be on the ground again.
