Well here goes....

Ever since our family blog mysteriously vanished, I've been thinking that I should just start a blog of my own.  This whole thing is extremely intimidating to me, though. That blog had been started by Matt as a means for all of us to keep in touch. Then when the grandchildren came along, both Matt and Rachel started their own blogs and I was the only one who would still post on the "World of Wiers" blog.  And, granted, I did not post all that often, but I found it to be a nice way to sort of "journal" about our activities, and mostly about our time with our grandkids. So I was EXTREMELY upset to find out several weeks ago that our blog was gone---just gone! I felt like I had lost a part of our family history.  Matt was able to retrieve some of the stuff on it, and I think he has it on his computer or something.  But there didn't seem to be any way to bring the blog back to life. 

So, here goes with my attempt at blogging on my own.  I asked for Bob's help in coming up with a name for it.  Since we are both now enjoying a slower (really??) pace of life in retirement, Bob came up with "Life in the Slow Lane." And who knows?  Maybe he'll even become a contributor to the blog.

I think that my last post on the old blog was about our October trip to Iowa---and shortly after that was when the blog disappeared.  So I haven't been able to post anything about our November trip to California.  That will be my first "real" post.

I expect that this will be quite a learning experience for me.  I hope that I am up to the task!