Life on the road

Do you know where you are when you wake up in the morning? Sometimes we do… but not always. Sometimes we’re surprised. It wasn’t all that uncommon a sensation, waking up in the morning and not knowing who I was or where I was, when I was overseas in the Army and had been drinking the night before. Now, here we go again. The challenge: Wake up. Think it over. Do you know where you are? Do it with a minimum of clues. See if you can figure it out where you are, before you open your eyes.

Dessert

Once a month daughter Becky creates a dessert and delivers it to a stranger. Not to just any stranger, but the same stranger every time; the high bidder at the annual fundraiser for the school. Each year, she prepares one dessert a month, for an entire year, for the highest bidder. Can you guess what the most popular dessert is every time? Of course. Grandma’s cheesecake. Rich, creamy, fresh cheesecake. Mom passed the tradition along. It skipped a generation and went right to Becky. And every time Becky delivers a cheesecake dessert, she includes a write-up with the recipe and its history. Mom’s cheesecake lives on.

Fall

Okay, I’ll quit sending the mongo pictures and go back to the reduced versions. The big pictures aren’t a problem for those with high speed connections, but not everyone has access to high speed (including me). I get into this mountain scenery and want to send the pictures out high definition. For some, this means a standard size picture with more definition. For others, though, it just means a picture that won’t fit on their screen and they have to scroll around through it. I’ve probably sent enough “screen saver” material, so I’ll go back to less pixels per picture. It’s not like if I just try harder I can capture what it really looks and feels like, anyway.