Seven days to the wedding. I'm getting excited. I asked my wife to marry me almost 20 years ago. On Sunday before Valentine's Day this year I asked her to get re-married. This time, we're even having a honeymoon! I haven't told her where we are going, but I think she will enjoy it. It's fun watching her and our friends try to guess.

I've been learning how to make movies on our computer. I've compiled a tolerable 20-minute video comprising the first 10 years of our marriage, plus the first year of having our daughter. Now that I've done it, I know how to do it a lot better. I wonder if Steven Spielberg has the same experience with his movies.

Speaking of movies, my friend Scotte and his daughter Kayla have some great movie reviews (and other stuff) on their website / blog:

http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/

Today was a beautiful day, but we were full of sadness, still missing Hope, our dog of 15 years who died almost two weeks ago. I think it was because we worked in the yard most of the day, and she would have enjoyed being outside with us very much. Also, we planted an azalea bush that one of my daughter's pre-school teachers gave us in her memory. I used to bring Hope when I dropped off Sara at pre-school, so the teachers knew her, and they knew how much we all cared for her. Today I kept looking at the worn spot on the carpet between where her doggy bed and her dishes were. It used to be very beaten down, and it was usually covered with kernels of spilled dog food. It seems to be recovering, like grass does after people stop walking on it. I can't imagine that so many years of life can just vanish, and leave such a faint trace.