I am so HAPPY!

[IFjane]

Congrats, SK!!!! May you and Bubba be celebrating 40 in 2027!!!

[SadieKate]

Reporting in from rainy Redding. Testing out La Quinta and their poodle accomodations. So far, so good. aka_kim, you'll like to know that the WP is taking full advantage of familydom again by sleeping about shoulder height between the two of us, which is even a bit extreme for him. A bit of anxiety, eh?

Yeah, yellow, it was a close one with PERS. Of course, now Mining and Geology wants him to come down for their meeting in Feb and . . .and . . . and. Word went out fast. He's got several days scheduled in mid-February already so he may fly to Portland from Sacramento and back for the NAHBS. What a riot.

aly, hubby practices natural resources/environmental law. That's why he serves as counsel for Fish and Game. He's also done the same for Mining and Geology, Forestry, Air Resources, Water Resources, etc., over the years, but F&G is what he loves. It's kind of entertaining when he comes home from a day in court and flummoxes the opposition when he can use actual experience as in "I stood on that rock just last year fishing for steelhead, and I saw . . . " (or whatever is appropriate in court).

Who else? RM, IFJ, RR, X, MP . . . Thanks so much for your well wishes. I've been relaying them all to the Bubbameister. He was so exhausted last night that he couldn't really take it all in, but today he's loving it.

Now, if the weather clears just a tad tomorrow so I don't have to put my skid car training into real life practice.

Happy_Wheels!, I guess you can tell I am one Happy_Girl!

[SadieKate]

Ha! While I was typing this Bubba said to tell yawl that he is not retired, he is "alternatively employed." If he was actually retired, he'd have to wear polyester, drive a golf cart, and clip coo-pons so he could stand in line at Safeway at 5 pm with all the working parents, just to annoy 'em.

[jobob]

wizeazz

[IFjane]

...wear polyester, drive a golf cart, and clip coo-pons so he could stand in line at Safeway at 5 pm with all the working parents, just to annoy 'em.

GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hear they also consider driving golf carts exercise.....

[snapdragen]

Yay for SK, Bubba and the Wonder Poodle! Family together again at last. Expect to have a poodle glued to you for the next few days....

//if I'm lucky I'll join the bubster in retirement in about 18 months...fingers crossed!

[xeney]

Congratulations, SadieKate! That is so exciting.

(My husband works for CDF -- or CalFire, whatever they call it now -- and we have lots of friends at Fish & Game and all those other places you mentioned.)