Gulp moment...

Gulp moment...  I was just reviewing my blog's statistics, after noticing that there was a spike in page views yesterday.  Those page views all came from Facebook – someone somewhere apparently posted a link to my blog, and quite a few people clicked it.  In the course of trying to figure out who might have done that, I checked to see where (geographically) the page views were coming from.  While doing that, I noticed that there was a big drop in page views from Virginia.

Because mom, of course.

She was one of the few people who was a regular reader of this blog.  And now she's gone.

Miss you, mom.  In more ways than I had thought I would...

Paradise ponders...

Paradise ponders...  We had a nice meal for the holiday yesterday: the best burgers I could figure out how to whip up.  For the buns we had Macey's onion-and-cheese rolls, which we've been enjoying for some time now.  The burger was ground choice sirloin, about as good as burger gets.  Add ripe beefsteak tomato, extra sharp cheddar cheese melted over the burger, ketchup, Duke's mayo, lettuce, and Bermuda onion, and you've got quite a feast.  Later we had an ice cream soda made with Aggie's chocolate almond ice cream.  That was some fine eating!

Today we have a guest arriving: Jo B., who hails from Poland.  We've never actually met Jo before, nor have we ever spoken with her.  I've played nearly 300 games of Scrabble with her, though (all over the Internet).  She's a friend and business partner of my sister Holly, an a professor of math and programming.  Jo and Holly have exchanged visits before, hugely enjoyed by both.  We're looking forward to showing Jo a bit of rural and small town America.  She'll be flying here this afternoon from a visit with relatives in San Francisco.  The culture in San Francisco is about as far from the culture here as you can possibly get in America – it will be interesting to see if Jo picks up on that, and if so, how she reacts...