In February Craig & I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary
at the Rendevous Restaurant (Russian food) in central New Jersey.
As has been the case in years past, I am fortunate enough
to travel back to Togliatti quite often. Here I am in the office in May
2003 with most of A Volga Girl's staff (our second Svetlana
was nice enough to take this photo). From left to right: Yana, Svetlana,
Me, Helen, and Julia. Both Svetlana and Julia are awaiting the issuance
of their finacee visas. Both will be living in Seattle, Washington.
In June we found a young crow in our yard. He appeared to
have fallen out of his nest. We have many stray cats in our neighborhood and
I was fearful that they would attack this young boy, so for about 1 week we
had a new house guest. he became tame very quickly and loved to eat fishing
worms.
His parents stayed in the trees around our house and when
I would take our friend outside they would begin to call very loudly. When
he was able to fly, he rejoined his family immediately. I felt very good about
this.