Helping Feed In Our Community

This weekend was the annual SCHA concert in the park, featuring Red Herring. We have enjoyed listening to Red Herring for several years at this concert.

At last years concert, while enjoying the live entertainment, visiting with neighbors and tipping a few glasses of our favorite beverage, I thought that maybe we could do "more" next year. So we contacted the HO, let them know we would like to advertise a donation at the concert, to benefit the Issaquah Food Bank.

Well, we are happy to announce that we collected over 230 pounds of food plus cash donations. All will be delivered to the IFB tomorrow. It feels good to help less fortunate neighbors. We all have so much and can afford to contribute to those with less.

End Of The Summer Season

September first has arrived and gone. That coolness is in the air, and it shrieks to me that SUMMER IS OVER. Now is the time that I start to plan my fall, winter and spring escapes. As beautiful as the Pacific NW is during a long, hot summer (like the summer of 2009, not 2010), when the days get shorter, light later and dark earlier, all I can think to do is escape.

This week will bring me to Alameda, to visit K&J and Violet. Grammy must visit often so Violet will know who I am. We also skype several times a week, so that helps.

My wonderful husband (WH for short) and I are considering a fall get-away to Zihuatanejo. We visited this small town for a day one time, and are thinking that a week in sunny, hot Mexico would feel good in November or December. We have both been checking out the reviews of where to stay. Lots of nice places to choose from.

The end of the year will be a road trip to visit our children and grand children. And we will enjoy our annual winter get away to Kauai in February. Somehow, I will slip in a few more visits to family & friends in warmer climates. And hopefully that will get us back to late spring and summer when the days are long and the temperatures are high(er).

One Year Later

Wow, I am a smokin' hot blogger, LOL. It has been over a year since I posted to Life Is Good. I guess if I don't want anyone to know what is going on, this is a pretty good blog spot.

The result of my previous blog (August 23, 2009) was born on April 24, 2010. Violet Kira Vona arrived. Now she is such a precious 4 month old, a happy, friendly baby adored by her parents and grand parents alike. Not that I'm prejudice, but Violet is the most photogenic baby I've ever seen. (Now you know for sure that I am her grand mother). Actually all of our grandchildren are just beautiful.

Violet is doing all the things that are normal for a four month old: rolling over, grabbing at her mommy's spoon, getting up on her knees. Soon it will be time to try cereal! Everything happens so fast with a babies development. And I am so enjoying watching my daughter be a mama. She is a much better mother than I ever was, happy and enjoying every moment with her little baby.