What happened here?

Okay, so I have some explaining to do...

I walked away from blogging for a while do peruse other things. So much has happened since I last posted it would take too long to explain it all. For a while, I had created a new picture blog, and was just taking photos and not posting anything on the blog at all. Then life took a terrible turn.

My father was diagnosed with lung cancer in April, and life has been one hell of a ride since then. He has a tumor the size of a grapefruit over the top of the right upper lobe and it is wrapped around this trachea and larynx. It also had spread to one lymph node. The diagnosis came very suddenly after what we thought was a common chest cold. After a few weeks of terror waiting for results from the docs, we found that it was cancer, that he has a 30% chance of making it 5 years, and that he was to start chemo and radiation immediately.

The last two months have been radical chemo and radiation five days a week. Dad finally got a break about two weeks ago and is doing well considering everything he has been through. He is up and moving well, getting things done around the house that he always wanted to do, and now due to his retirement, he gets the time to do them.

My wife, daughter, and I took a vacation once he was doing well enough that we could take some time off, and I have posted those pictures here to give you all a treat. We were in desperate need of a break and finally got a chance to take that break.

So I decided to compile all my old blogs here and post updates in one place from now. I hope you like the new layout, new title, and new outlook. Things are different today than they have been in the past. I look at things differently than I used to, hence the title change. Hope you like it!