I enjoyed a long lunch at the Olive Garden in Casa Grande, catching up with Patti. She looks great, but we both forgot about taking a picture today so I have no 'proof'. 

Neither of us can believe that this spring it will be 50 years since we graduated from high school.

Due to traffic the drive home in the afternoon took half-again as long as the drive there in the morning, despite the fact that I had rain on the drive down and none on the drive home.

Alex had a great couple of days snowboarding in Flag - 

Here he made it over the 'cactus' with no problem, though at one point he did have a run-in with a tree.  As a result he's now sporting a very large bruise on his thigh ... plus I get to repair the resulting hole(s) in his pants.