cool article on Marin Rowing

This article ran in the SF Chronicle today -- pretty neat.

Be sure to click on the photos! (none of yours truly, but some good shots...)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/BAEP15P421.DTL

Dogs go to heaven!

A Couple of Images

While I was down at my silent retreat I had an image of a bunch of peonies. Peonies are my daughter, Porter's favorite flower. They are so beautiful and colorful. I did a watercolor sketch of a few of them in my journal. Here they are....


Porter sent me this sweet photo of herself and Elsa hanging out on the porch at Silver Lake. Elsa is the 4th generation of Merrimans to enjoy this magical place. When you are there, you have virtually no contact with the outside world, very nice!

Elsa is a tall drink of water

Took Miss Elsa to the doctor today - she wasn't feeling great. (She's going to be fine.)

Asked them to weigh/measure her, as she's recently been busting out of her clothes at an amazing rate. And eating like a truck driver.

They weighed her, and, to my amazement, she has not gained an ounce since January.

Then they measured her, and in that same interval, she has grown - get this - three inches! Holy Cow. Guess that explains where all the food was going...

I'm pretty psyched, because her new measurements put her cleanly in the TALL category. A true Merriman. :-)

At 22 months:

Elsa is 27 pounds; 63th percentile for weight.

Elsa is 35 inches; 90th percentile for height.

how do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

 

like a log

 

cool video

Here is a great video - just published - of last summer's Ethiopian "blog union"... a gathering of adoptive families with Ethiopian kiddos. Elsa and I are in here in a few spots - and Jan makes a quick appearance too!!