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If I’ve been a little remiss on the ol’ website as of late, it’s just that this is the first week I’ve had any time to sit down with the laptop at the café and put finger to keypad. Ike started back at school Tuesday even though I’m not sure how prepared he was for that to happen. Let’s just say his schedule is still strictly on vacation hours; by which I mean that he was awake and chatting in his room at close to 1 a.m. this morning. That’s the kind of kid Ike is though, and I think if it were up to him, school would start right after the sun sets, and he would sleep in past 10 a.m. every morning. When I went into his room to give him a kiss goodbye this morning, he didn’t even budge. Sweetie said he didn’t even open his eyes until he was being loaded up into the school bus. Talk about a rude awakening. Monday he went to see the surgeon who took off the soft cast on his right leg that had been pissing him off. All the sites where they had to go in to take hardware out and release tend...

Everything went smoothly...Ike did great, but due to poor communication between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon we are spending the night. They promise that we will all get to go home first thing in the morning.

Happy New Year to all you and yours who have come by my site both today and over the past four years to see what’s going on at the Park. In fact, happy everything…Happy holidays, happy morning, happy scrambled eggs, happy drive into work, and happy surfing the internet. Today, on the start of the 3rd day of the new year The Trailer Park is decreeing today, January 3, 2006 “Happy Everything Day”. And why not, I ask you? Surely we are as deserving as anyone else to be happy, and while it’s one thing to be deserving, it’s quite another to grasp joy with both hands and take it for your own. Today is all about that…it is all about putting the blessing of happiness on the ordinary to make you realize that there is nothing about life that is ordinary. We have created a world (or at least a corner of the world) that is all about scraping life’s hard edges off in the hopes that this newly founded piece of smoother comfort will complete the Life-Puzzle-of-Bliss we all crave. Where we seem to hav...