It's been just over five years since I posted to this blog. So many changes in life have occurred, so many significant events. Without dwelling too much on any of them, here's a quick summary, by year. I'll probably update this from time to time.

• 2016 - 
• Cece and I finally visited the last of our 50 states, with a road trip to Kansas and continuing to New Mexico.
• I retired from the Department of Water Resources after 38 1/2 years.
• 2017 - 
• Cece retired from Center Unified School District after 20 years.
• My mother was treated for breast cancer, but died in August
• My son Matt and his wife Sara had twins, Kendrick and Lauryn.
• 2018 -
• My father fell in his home, broke his hip, and had to move to an assisted living facility. He died five months later.
• 2019 -
• My siblings and I liquidated my parents estate.
• 2020 -
• The COVID-19 pandemic shut much of the world down. As a retired couple, our income is fine and we have had to find new ways to entertain ourselves during the stay-at-home order. We've done lots of puzzles, and Cece has been finding a number of exercise routines online.
• I began reading my first novel online.