Weekly Report

Met with my accountant this week to start the process of filing taxes. Amended the financial aid forms for the boys to make sure they have the option of returning to California next school year should they choose.

Drove my youngest daughter here and there all week. She's been accepted into the boarding school in Napa that she wants to attend next fall -- that will depend on some major financial aid.

A work, I am the guinea pig testing a new type of scheduling software. It always makes me feel dumb to test software -- I don't take to it easily. You must have to have  amuch more logical brain than mine to be good at these things.

I woke up this morning and decided to take my core team (4 people) to lunch. It's birthday time for two of them (aged 32 and 31) so we walked to a local hipster joint most of us had never visited.

A nice break.

Now the weekend. Gotta help my youngest son find an affordable ticket home from Missoula for spring break. Will take my daughter not once but twice to the SPCA tomorrow. A friend will drop by for tea. Julia plays futsol on Sunday.

Grandson James pitched for the first time today in Little League in San Jose. Photo above.

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Fruits, Vegetables and Jasmine

My daughter Sarah and I talked about how to introduce our kids to more vegetables (and fruits) on Saturday, and that conversation inspired me to go out shopping on Sunday, when I bought onions, orange bell peppers, garlic, zucchini, cucumber, baby carrots, key limes, mandarin tangerines, brown mushrooms, basil, apples, grapes and peaches.

I love filling my refrigerator with these items, because I like eating them and I love serving them to my kid(s). These days, that would mean my one remaining kid at home, 16-year-old Julia.

On the way to work yesterday, I shot this photo of a flowering jasmine plant. The kind that smells, especially after dark on a warm night.

My neighbors removed all of the jasmine from our mutual fence in my front yard last year, it seemed like it was gone forever. But this weekend, I noticed that one little strand of jasmine has returned, on my side of our fence. A little strand, making a statement.

I love that! May it grow up to look like the plant in this photo.

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