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Sometimes life can be a bear and sometimes it even drops a house on you just when you thought the tornado was over. That has been the case with my wife, Fran, and I as we fought tooth and nail to recover from some severe lung infections. We don't know where this stuff came from but it was a great example of an H1N1 superbug (not really) that nailed us both in the ears with very high fevers over 103 degrees for poor Fran, bad sinus, lungs, and severe pneumonia in both lungs for me that caused me to lose 15 pounds and countless hours of sleep from coughing. So this site is wayyyyy behind!

There has been some good news as it finally started to rain again after going for weeks without a drop and our poor fish pond has lost over 4 feet in depth...not sure how many gallons that is for a 3/4 acre pond!! Thousands for sure!! But it drove us to finally start feeding the fish with floating pellets that the fish just love!! As they look like some kind of feeding fenzy as the catfish, white catfish (yes, 6 pure white catfish), large mouth bass, carp and others sweep through the floating food pile to tank up each day. As soon as we return tomorrow I plan to get some video and post it here so you can see it as it is really neat to watch. And some of the fish are BIG and weigh several pounds so we are already planning a big fishing contest/fish fry later this year for our friends and neighbors.

Because I broke my laptop last month (again, don't ask) I had to move my old desktop to the cabin so I could work out there better on my coursework. Bad part is I cannot get updates to the blog on that system for some dumb reason and I'm just doing updates as I can on other machines until I get a good laptop prior to heading for Minnesota the middle of July. I start one of the doctoral residencies then and I will need to access wifi etc while at the University of Minnesota. I am not looking forward to the traffic up there at all but I will be able to meet alot of other clinical psychologists who will be there too. Many are also in my two current classes as well and that is pretty cool to think about.


RIP

July 2012
Virginia (Franck) Bartel
Sweetest aunt in the world
You will be dearly missed