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Oh yes, we're in the Ring of Fire. There's the Pacific Ring on the northern part of the Pacific where that includes the Pacific Northwest and volcanoes. San Francisco and California have the San Andreas Fault, but we're right over a subduction zone. That's why we've got these volcanoes. We do have a couple of different types of volcanoes here. How am I going with this? I'm hiccuping for some reason. I'm almost done with my coffee. I started with only half a cup of coffee. I'm not supposed to say cheers. Yes, well so far North America has dodged the bullet for major tropical storms. So, I've kind of lucked out. There have been lots of earthquakes. Yes, we get earthquakes here too because we're over that subduction zone. And yeah, earthquakes. They are real. They're not fake news. Earthquakes are real. And I can look out the window and see the ninth most dangerous stratovolcano on the planet, Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma. There on the horizon, or peaking actually up from behind the horizon because you wouldn't be able to see the ground there except that the dome is like, and statute miles is like two and a half miles high or something like that. I forget exactly how tall it is. I think it's four kilometers tall and two and a half statute miles tall. So, it's like 95 kilometers away or 65 miles away, but there it is. It's very prominent. You can't miss it anywhere. Sticking it's bold out of the troposphere. Anyway, and the joke is that living in the Pacific Northwest, part of living here is all these different things about kayaks and Starbucks coffee and admiring Mount Rainier while at the same time knowing that it's going to kill you someday. Anyway, take care of her. And now onward to my brother Clay and sister Rachie. So, 88 to both of you and mid 19th century 88. And a soror al sol 33 to Rachie. This is your sister Joan sitting here and looking out at Broadway Avenue. Pretty quiet here. We did get some rain the last day or you know like a night one of the nights it rained all night. And then it rained again a little bit in the daytime. And I love that. Clay and Rachie, I'm taking care of my friend Victor's pea patch. And so it rained so I don't have to go travel all the way to the pea patch to water it. Anyway, Clay and Rachie, please give us your reports.