Still Very Boring

It has been more than two decades since we spent summer in Texas.  We are leaving mid July but there has certainly been very little going on while we wait to drive off to our first stop, a week at Raystown Lake Resort in Entriken PA for a week for our family reunion (my side).  We have house sitters again for the summer.  Marina and Nancy are holding down the fort!  

Last time I wrote we were going to play cards at the country club and I won!  I only had 11 points and you want to be low.  

I worked two hours at the Thrift Shop.  This time I hung clothes that have been looked over and set aside.  The rest go in recycle bins and are sold by the pound.  This is how you will see a child on TV in the Congo wearing an Astros baseball shirt.  Most get shredded, cooked and fibers used for fine paper.  

I played Canasta and won too!  I believe it is the first time I ever came in first place in this group.

We did get our TSA numbers at Bush airport.  Ted’s passport is scheduled to arrive June 24 (arrived 6/20) according to the website but we will be gone when mine arrives.  I have added the numbers to our August plane tickets so we should be good.  

Our neighborhood birthday luncheon bit the dust after one by one people dropped out.  When it got down to just two of us, we bailed.  It will be November before I will plan another and December is always done by Deb so we will see what 2024 brings.  

Nancy, Ted and I toured the Conservatory just to see what they offer.  It is like a 5 star hotel with individual senior apartments.  There is no health facility associated with it.  Just beautiful apartments of various sizes with amenities for residents that include a dining room, cleaning, utilities, transportation, etc.  It is very nice.  We are not ready to do anything like that just yet, if ever, but it was worth taking a look to have the info.  

Ted had a nice Father’s Day hearing from all the girls.  We did nothing special that day though.

We did get our new gifted TV set up in our bedroom.  We had Jason switch the TVs, I looked and told him to switch them back.  Size wise, it just didn’t work.  But all is good now.

I had a cardiologist appointment and all looks good.  Dr. D was going to contact Dr. C to check on my cholesterol results which he had failed to send to her.  She upped my Simvastatin to 20 mg. last time to stay ahead of the expected cholesterol rise from my hormone therapy.  She needs to see how it has            worked.  That’s about it but maybe the two weeks before we leave will be a bit more interesting.                                                            

   

Past Two Weeks

 In all honesty, in the past two weeks, nothing much happened.  Now into another week, still not much is going on.  

We had our AC yearly serviced and made sure they cleaned the outside compressor.  Lots of things end up in there in a year’s time.  

I worked a day at the thrift shop and two hours lifting heavy bags and sorting clothes is tough on the old back.  I came home and took a two hour nap!  I am working again this week so I need to “toughen up.”

I got a hair cut, we’ve gone to church and out to eat.  I am still fine tuning all my computer work.  One liability policy did not get cancelled, though I have an email saying it was, along with all the others.  They keep billing me so that necessitated two phone calls.  

We received our new car license plates so I was able to remove the paper plate number from our 3 EZ toll passes (TX, FL, PA) and put in the new number.  I received a print out of our 9 days in FL.  There were two pages of the tolls equaling around $100.  Every road in the Orlando area seems to be a toll!  

Delta changed our Orlando back to Detroit departure in September so I used that opportunity to check how to put our TSA number in when we get it.  Then I printed the new schedule out and put our Delta cards in my travel file.  That file is filling up! 

We have an appointment next Monday to get TSA pre-check clearance.  Silly me, forgetting both of our passports were sent off for renewal, had to scramble for other ID.  Apparently our driver’s licenses and birth certificates will suffice.  Just in case, I have old expired passports and a photo of the current ones as back up.  Apparently my Student ID with my photo on it from Lone Star College will work too!  

Our neighbor’s husband bought two new TVs and gave us this 43” one from their bedroom that has been turned on twice!  We will move this to our family room and the family room to here once I get a TV stand to hold the 36”.  The picture on the new one is so much better.  When I asked his wife why they got new she said she had no idea!  Ted’s butler rack will have to be relocated!  

We are playing cards at the country club tonight!  Looking forward to that.  We play 3 hands, then have dinner, and finish up the last three hands.  We start at 5 so by 8 we are usually on our way home.  We come home now at the time we used to leave to go out!

Lots in the calendar for next week!  Hope this one didn’t bore you too much.