Hi! Everyone

I have decided to try blogging. I do not know where it will lead us, but I certainly want it to be safe for everyone in our group.

It seems a good way to share thoughts and ideas about what is going on in our different parts of the country, as well as share pictures over the Internet.

I recently also discovered Picasa2, another free service from Google. It has organized all of my pictures that I had in my hp folders, and is easier to use.

We have had a lot of grass fires in north Texas and Oklahoma. I have not personally seen any here in our county, but have read about them in the news, and have seen the TV news with their reporting. Driving to and from Kansas on Christmas Day and returning homw on December 30th, I noticed about double the burn areas on I-35 in Oklahoma (from 10-20) even then. If Elizabeth joins our group, she can comment on what she saw last night between Oklahoma City and Stillwater. Llew and Vonnie have even seen that our county, Wise County, was on their TV news about the grass fires.

I know there is flooding in California and wonder if Anne could bring us up to date on that in her area.

There is rain and has been snow in Washington where Kristen and Llew are.

Anyway, just wanted to get this started.

Hopefully I will hear from you soon.

linsue