So it is now August of 2022. I guess I won’t make any comment about not posting for a while, but it does surprise me that I go so long between posts. A blog is a good way to keep up with myself and to remember what I have been doing.
Let’s see. What exciting things have been happening? In March of this year we snuck out of isolation to visit Pete and Roxanne in Barbados. To do that we drove to New Jersey and got to see Ted, Patti, Timmy and Bridget and stayed overnight on both ends of the trip with Christine, Adrian and Stephen and visited Katie too. Barbados was lovely, but the Covid testing requirements were stressful. Hopefully, if we go back again, testing will not be required. I am also researching personal item bags that fit under the airline seat as our only luggage. Checking bags is a pain and the wait at the end of the trip is annoying too. I think I could use my blue bag that I have used as an under seat carryon on many airlines. We have our Rick Steves bags which are fine, but are technically too large for under the seat and require putting in the overheads which is a problem with the tendinitis in my shoulder. We don’t need all that much stuff if we are visiting relatives that have a washer and dryer in a warm climate.
I have been putting together my “Book of Things” which is simply an organized list of all of the stuff anyone would need to know if I were no longer able to explain things. Okay, maybe morbid, but Anne and others will appreciate knowing where things are and how things work.
I am also working on becoming paperless. I am trying to digitize everything and then organize it all. Organizing is the hard part. How do you make reference to and include things. I am using Apple Pages for my Book of Things and am trying to figure out how to either link to other documents or material or to somehow easily point out where they are in the cloud.
I should also point out to myself that I had a colonoscopy in July. There was one small, non cancerous polyp, but, they want me to through that again in five years. The last time I had a three year reprieve, but that time evaporated just as all time seems to be evaporating.
We are already well into August. In less than a month September will be here and I always think of Fall and Winter when September arrives. Around here the first snows can start to show up in October, although we usually don’t get much of any that early.
I bought two Amazon Echo Dots on Prime Days this year. They were $20.00 each with a smart light bulb. I was so impressed with the sound that I dismantled all of the equipment and speakers in the family room and now just have the dots. Alexa is pretty good at playing music from my Apple Music library. I am wondering what the slightly larger and more expensive Echoes sound like. Never mind. These sound just fine.
We are having a giant cottonwood (Eastern Poplar) in the back corner of our property cut down in a couple of weeks. Well, not quite cut to the ground, but enough that the little cotton balls that get all over everything will no longer be present. One of our neighbors gets the brunt of them and is contributing $1,000 to the $4,500 cost.
