..at keeping up with this blog LOL. Everytime I say that, I go months in between posts. Anyway a lot has happened, too much for me to condense into one and go into detail. So here are some summaries:
1. We have a week left before we move back to CA. We are moving back to help my mom with her fight with cancer, and to just help out in general while we're there, with whatever is needed, for a year, then we're looking to settle down and drop anchor in and around Portland, OR. That way we are only an overnight drive , or a 1.5 hour flight away for emergencies, and to just be able to be closer to family in general.
2. Father's Day morning (YES, ON FATHER'S DAY!), I went out really really early in the morning to go take some nature photos. One location I was planning to shoot was Ithaca Falls. Well before I step in the river I check all the connections with the camera onto the tripod, and everything is golden. Set up the tripod, it leans a little forward, and the camera falls into the river LIKE IT WAS NEVER EVER LATCHED ON THERE! WTF?! Damn tripod malfunction cost me my camera. It took me two weeks, and the support of family, fans, and friends to raise enough money to get a new camera. My exact model is not in stores anymore, and the equivalent T2i is sold out everywhere, so I decided to upgrade. I got a Canon 50D, and BOY do I love it to pieces. This camera will be the diving board that I will use to really dive into this business. It can do so much more that my entry level Rebel XSi could only dream of. It is a SOLID mofo, and the geek in me is excited to relearn all the new controls and settings. I just got it this morning.
3. In short Hailey had to have 3 teeth removed, and we went to an oral surgeon who removed three COMPLETELY WRONG (and perfectly healthy) teeth. Needless to say, I was madder than I have ever been in many many years. It took all my effort, and Katie and friends talking me down to not go over to the oral surgeon and take those three teeth back from him...from his own mouth. That's not just talking, that's what I truly wanted to do. Needless to say we sought legal council, and we have two lawyers now who are very interested in possibly taking the case. Katie met with one this morning, and we met with another in the afternoon as a family. Nothing official yet, but this is pretty cut and dry malpractice, and negligence...so I'm pretty sure they'll bite, and we just have to decide who we'll be going with.
Well, that's my life the past month in a nutshell. My last day at work is this Friday, and I am really really sad about it. I enjoyed working with my coworkers, and I could have gone and sought more money, and more mental stimulation, but I enjoyed working with them so much that I could never seriously think about leaving. It's funny that a job I picked up, purely because it was simple and at the time I thought I could leave easily, turned out to be a job I really loved. My original plans were to only work the job in the dead period between the harvest of 2007, and the growing season of 2008, and quit it and go back to the winery full time again. But in that short amount of time, I grew to love working with my team, so I decided to stay, and try to squeeze in the winery as a part time apprenticeship. I truly am very sorry to leave.
