  friends Leeward (aka Rick) and Marianne Pettys surprised us with a visit today, so nice to see them. Marianne complimented my fresh flowers and later I realized that that was among my best personal improvements of 2003. As everything always does, the thought festered into a blog entry and here we are with a growing list. Best moves of 2003: -having beautiful baby girl, Eleanor (aka Ella, Ellie) -starting a blog -putting Aidan in pre-school -started frequenting urlLink the Pilates studio -having at least one bouquet of freshly cut flowers in house every week -acquired Yolanda's help, which enabled the visits to said Pilates studio -getting our lovely cat, Zia -discovering urlLink Earthships -not judging friends and acquaintances => cannot step into same river twice -getting urlLink TiVo (barely in under the wire! ) -surviving aftermath of Columbia tragedy 
