Good morning. I have just finished my first year of architecture studio classes. I woke up today feeling GREAT! I went for a two hour ride up Chimney Gulch and down the chutes of the Apex trail. It was fast, muddy, green, blooming, steep, heart pounding in your neck, deer startling, only running into two people, wind cooling you off, sun making you sweat great.

What else is going on…Anne has only one more month to teach this year, and she has done well. I am becoming more impressed with this person I married all the time. She doesn’t let her kids mistreat her, or anyone, and she strives to find the next step that will improve her classroom atmosphere as well as each individual relationship with her students. She is going to do nothing this summer. And by nothing I mean hike, swim, spend time with friends, read, watch TV, garden, nap, and visit her family. Our sister-in-law in North Carolina is about two months pregnant.

I am planning on taking 9 credits (three classes), and working. I’m not sure where yet, but I am crossing my fingers that I will be able to leave Colorado after my classes end in early August, and travel out to California to visit my brother and sister-in-law in Orange County, and then up to Camp Calvin Crest, my home! There will be a small Cosby that we need to meet. I hope there will be time for singing and playing guitar, for writing poetry and mountain biking in the midst of this.

Before all this, we are going down to Charleston, SC, to spend a week with my in-laws in the tidal marshes. There will be much fishing, riding in boats, exploring, seeing of wildlife, eating good food, and bike rides on the beach. Can’t wait. Love you all.