Summer '09

The birds in our yard bring us great pleasure! Yes, we know...we are very dull people! If you click on this picture you'll see the golden finch. There are usually three to four feeding then darting in and out of the yard. Our other favorites are the cardinals. Sorry to say I don't have a picture of them.

Here's the view out the kitchen window. It's even better sitting outside! I love to sit out there in the morning drinking my coffee and journalling.

We met a new mid named Tim. We've decided to call him "tall Tim" and then we have "our Tim"! The other night when we were over on the yard watching drill practice, Tall Tim was leading 9th platoon right by us and calling the cadence. It was getting dark and it wasn't till he went right by us that we noticed who it was. Jeff said, "It's Tall Tim." He grinned and they kept marching. As they got passed us we heard, "Oorah, Mr. Steiner!" And then the whole platoon, "Oorah, Mr. Steiner!" It made our day!

Tim and Mike Tipton

Until August we were able to eat many dinners out on the patio. The heat arrived in August and so did the mosquitoes!


We were honored to have Stephen Schoenholtz come for an overnight visit. We met Stephen and Gloria in Corvallis when their son, Zack played basketball with Tim. Jeff and Stephen collaborated on some projects when they were both at OSU and now were going to connect again here in the DC area. Sorry to say, Gloria couldn't make it. They moved to Blacksburg, VA the same time we moved to Annapolis.

We sold Tim our red Camry and bought a Prius for Jeff to drive to Beltsville. He is proud to say he gets 55...almost 56 miles to the gallon!