March 1, and it actually got up to 70 today for the first time since November. The apple tree got pruned and we all went over to the neighbors to rake up their pine needles and cones in order to turn our Bobcat pins right side up. The neighbors on the other side of the house are in Hawaii and they sent us the beautiful flowers shown in the picture. Jonathan and his friend Thomas are about to move into an apartment - I went over to the complex today to do the preliminaries with them and the landlord this afternoon. Back home, I got onto Marian and Steve's blogsite and found that they were replacing the Smiths in Ghana, our good friends of Oregon City days - you can't make this stuff up. Be sure to see the Shipleymission sight, linked to the right. We ended the daylight hours with a good pizza; all in all a lot done and discovered in one day.