Catching up...

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I've been away along time. A LONG TIME.

The last post i created was in 2012. By then, this blog had taken us through my time at USAA, my departure through there, the start of my commercial photography business SnowPro Photography.

I was too busy to post after that. 

Flash forward to 2020. 8 years, whew. Where has time gone?

Let's see. In a nutshell and in order: my daughter married, my mother-in-law moved in with B and I, my daughter divorced. B & I went to Italy on a Rick Steve's tour, my father became ill with the first of his long battle with cancer, I closed my business to help take care of him. B and I bought property out of state, moved, saw & photographed the 2017 eclipse in Tennessee. 


 

We bought an RV, moved out of Texas & built a house on said property. I went back to Texas in 2020 and in 2021 for months at a time to help with my dad's care through his battle with the big C.

 


I keep bees now, and B built his observatory that he has always wanted. 

Dad lost his battle in 2021 and Mom is with us now and not in Texas, she seems as happy as she can be.

I've done a bit of photography for neighbors and designing graphics for the observatory and for my honey jars. 

There, you've caught up.  Next up: another estate sale story.



 



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