Heather and I finished in 24 minutes and 58 seconds, or therabouts. She's really pleased with her time and wants to do the 10K run next year! That run actually has a guy in a turkey suit, and apparently the trick is to beat him. He finished last year in about 42 minutes, so the suit doesn't seem to slow him down at all!

Heather and I did the 35th annual Mesa Turkey Trot 2-mile run this morning. It was a good way to burn off some of those impending calories. Mmmm...impending calories...

Random other house pic. A look at the back of the house from the other side of the pool. Apparently, they are leaving that pot-fire-thing as well. Mmmm...pot....

I hiked to the top of Squaw Peak about a month and a half ago. This is my camera phone pick from the summit. Whew! I'd like to go back up again now that the heat is gone. That's looking down into the Valley of the Sun.

Abbie and Heather, relaxing at home. Heather is the less hairy one.

We went to the wedding of Christine, Heather's old roommate, this weekend. Here is a group shot, even if its not flattering of me!

It's photo time! Here is a pic from area around Mingus mountain. Heather and I went camping in that area a couple months ago with a church group. I have a whole bunch of other shots of that trip as well, but this one is neat!

Weekend

Last weekend was surprisingly active. Friday night Heather and I went to a wine-tasting hosted by some people from church. It was a fund raiser for Habitat for Humanity. We got there late (as usual) but had a nice time. I got to drink some wine, eat some nice food, and talk politics with some angry progressives. Ah, blue state folk in Red state territory.

Anyway, we got a quick lesson in how to look at wine, including an "Olfactory Wheel" that listed the various types of scents including, and I am not kidding, "Wet Dog", "Diesel", "Garlic" and "Burnt Toast". I can see myself as a sommiler now: "It is bold, yet tactful, delightfully furity, but with a hint of wet dog."

Anyway, Saturday was mostly downtime, but Sunday we went out to lunch with a couple (probably the only couple) our age from church. They were fun people, and oddly enough, Heather had met them before when they stopped briefly in Dayton last December. Quite odd. However, they are both medical residents, so I don't know how much we'll manage to see of them! But it was good to meet somebody.

This weekend we are flying to Sacremento to see Christine Smeltz's wedding. She came to ours along with the California crew. It will give Heather a chance to see all of them again.

Trip to Knoxville 11-12-04

Mary and I went to Knoxville this weekend to see Nick. We left Saturday morning about 8:15 after talking to Laura, who is in Macedonia. The ride down to Tennessee was beautiful, or so Mary said, I of course slept most of the way. I did drive the last 60 minutes and it was nice to see trees that still had colored leaves. It had also rained a lot recently in this part of the country so the rivers and streams were running and the face of the hills cut through by the roads had little streams and water falls shining in the bright sun light.
We got there in about 4 hours and after picking up Nick and Ivan went for a walk in this nice park along the Tennessee river that Nick found. It is in a section of Knoxville that looks a lot like the west side of Oakwood. The people don't seem to mind if you let your dogs run in this park so Ivan had a ball. He also jumped into the river several times and rolled around in a dead fish. Phew!
Nick had to give him a bath after the walk.
We picked up Cate and went out to eat at Calhouns and took in a movie, The Incredibles. I thought it was really good and some of the dialogue was very funny. We didn't get back to our hotel until midnight.
We got up Sunday to have breakfast with Nick before he was off to work and we drove back home.

Mike is this what I am suppose to do??

I am Roy Berger and I have never been a part of a blog(?) So this is my first attempt at posting anything. A test.

This is standing next to the countertop in the previous entry, looking down into the dining room and den area. More of the floor that has got to go.

This is the kitchen. The floor is going, and Heather tells me that the countertops' days are numbered as well.

This is the best shot of our pool. I never thought I'd own one. I hope the rumors about the work required for upkeep are unfounded! At least we don't have much of the "leaves falling to the ground" season out here in Phoenix.

The nice people who we are buying the house from are leaving a lot of their outdoor stuff for the backyard. Example A: This bar and chairs.

This is Michael and Heather's new house in Arizona. It's 4 bed, 2 bath, with an Arizona room (which is apparently what they call Florida rooms out here), a kitchen/den, and a living room. It also has a nice pool in a well kept back yard. I'll put a couple more pictures of the place up.

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