Greetings all; Well, nothing special, except that's it's been 3 months since an update. Summary: had a fun Thanksgiving, great Christmas (no skate board accidents this time), and a fun New Year at the ranch with some mountain friends. January pretty quiet: Lynn worked a lot, but we did get to ski at Sunrise some! Feb busy with 1) Jim Shepherd came down and spent a month in Tucson; we got to play golf, mess around. I warned him to be careful with his belongings at his rental house (rented with a friend from Kansas) but it did little good. He was in town about 30 minutes and got his bike stolen... We also had a few days visit from old Junior High friends-high school friends from Topeka! That was fun as well. Other than that, Feb quiet too. March has been fun; Lynn and I spent a week in Winter Park but we were the only Dicksons there this year! Was quiet, but the skiing was superb and a day at the snowmobile playing place was a blast. We did set a new record...temperature was 0 deg at the base, 24 Below at the 12,400 foot summit wind chill. Believe it or not, it was really neat coming down Parsienne Bowl and we have photos to prove it! Before that week, Lynn was up at the Phx horse show place and won her share of pretty ribbons at an Arab show this time, on a borrowed horse no less. Things coming up: There's a Matteo birthday party coming up in Phx; I have found myself leading a book club discussion on the Apache Wars at the Mountain Oyster Club coming up; Taxes are due, and along with the Marx-Son Farms LLC it's an interesting project this year. Thanks a lot, U.K.! I'm needing a lot of ice cream for this one.. Just so you know, trying to keep in touch: April: Bob and Mary Leigh Dyck from Kansas come to visit the ranch (high school friend and wife), then Easter in Arizona, then I go to Kansas for turkey season! Come back in time for a coed horse trek and party down in the San Rafael Valley on a friend's ranch. May: to Lee's Ferry for a couple days fly fishing on the Colorado River as it enters the Grand Canyon. Otherwise quiet. So far. June: I have tickets to Kansas for the Dickson reunion, the first Sunday after Memorial Day, in Emporia so I'm going! After that it's a trip to California for Grandpa and G'Ma Lynn for a week in the Hilton Vacations club. I'm not sure who all else is coming but I think it will be a blast! July: Lynn has the 4th off this year, and the last two weeks off. I'm not sure what all we are going to end up doing but at least some of it will be in Colorado. August: no idea Sept: Have booked a Baltic cruise with friends and hope to visit Moscow as well. I also have an antelope expedition in there somewhere in Wyoming with the cousins. That's about it; trust all is well around the country! I'm betting at least one of the PAC-12 teams will win March Madness, not sure which one. Should be an exciting tourney, especially if the KU guys can stay out of jail... Love to all, UR/DAD