Purpose of Blog

 To set a direction for my writing this blog, I was thinking about what the purpose is.  The original intention was to keep in touch with or let friends and family know how I am doing as I started something new with my life.  This is still a good purpose and in addition to that it will serve as a sort of journal for myself.  My memory isn't what it used to be.  So here is my disclaimer: Therefore some of the content will be uninteresting to some readers. And then, who am I to judge what is interesting to others - that's too much pressure for me as I try to simplify my life. Folks generally tend to know me as being pretty private with my life so it's possible readers will find insight in the little things I post - learning more about me than they did when living/working with me on a regular basis.

Yesterday I noticed a change in my tap water, it was cloudy.  For quite some time I have been in the habit of boiling my drinking water.  At my old house it was to remove some of the iron – I preferred the water straight from the well without going through any filtration or water softener, and I sure miss the taste of that pure water.  At my new house my water is filtered through a water softener and a UV system for water safety.  Here I have a sandpoint well versus the drilled 200 ft well at my old house.  Even municipal water is sometimes cloudy but generally deemed safe to drink and bottled water can have traces of microscopic plastic.