Charging into 2023!

 

Every year is a fun year, but it only lasts 365 days (unless it is a leap year!).  This year saw Russia invade Ukraine in Europe's biggest war since 1991 though some people kept shouting "1945"! Nice to see out failing school system fall another notch below where people thought it would bottom out.  When Russia attacks, they seemed to have shot COVID in the head and the most dangerous disease the universe ever saw just vanished!  By April, it was like it had never been!

Of course, the Canadian Trucker Convoy in Ottawa has a lot to do with that too as Justin Trudeau, who is less of a man than my cat, fled and called people names as he contracted COVID for the second time.  Canada is still in the depths of dystopia, but it seems to be climbing back up the slope.

I never wore a mask or got the vaccine.  I refused to go along with it, went where I felt like, and told a couple of overzealous self-appointed "mask commissars" to mind their own business if they knew what was good for them.

Then it was all gone....just like that.

Hopefully, it stays gone. Some people just don't want to let go of it. 

Michelle and I had the best nameday ever, scaling the Superstition Mountains and patting sting rays at an ostrich farm outside of Mount Picacho, site of the Civil War's most westward "battle". 

We had several successful fossil hunts and I am busy putting all my findings in an online museum soon enough!  Stay tuned! 

 I spent a lot of time slogging and sloshing around in creeks and dried river beds finding fossils this year, burnishing my "credentials" (LOL) as an amateur paleontologist.  Michelle is more on the administrative side of things though she seems to have a knack for finding good fossils with minimal effort!

Off we go to 2023, faster, stronger, and smellier than before! :-)