The other day we took a picture of our cat Merlin on the bed. From the looks of it, he is either recharging or disguising himself as a mouse. He travels pretty well, and he seems to enjoy finding new places to explore, unless those places are home to great horned owls, which he doesn’t […]
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We are in the middle of our second year of full-time RV living in Arizona. For those of you who haven’t followed us for long, we are members of the Thousand Trails program. It allows us to stay at campgrounds and RV resorts around the country for a yearly fee. The program we bought into
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Our first winter of snow-birding in Arizona was eye-opening. There is a real learning curve to navigate, and we got a crash course in the RV lifestyle. We arrived in Mesa the last week of January and got situated for a two-week stay at our first campground. This was described as an RV resort and
It has been several weeks since I have had the time or inclination to write a post for this site. We have been preoccupied with downsizing, as in selling our house and moving into a recreational vehicle. Most of the fall of 2020 was spent researching RVs, weighing the pros and cons of motorhomes vs.
I heard a story once about a doctor who was at a party and people kept coming to him to ask about their aches and pains. Eventually he met a lawyer at this same party and told this person about how this always seems to happen wherever he goes. The doctor asked if there was
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‘Tis the season for political campaigns, and things are normal. Which is to say I am trying to figure out a way to hide from all the political ads on TV. It seems to me that signing on to an ideology of one side or the other really defeats the purpose of being an adult.
I have been trying to get a handle on my love handles for quite some time now. Lately I have had to get serious about it. It’s not that I can’t lose weight, in fact I have lost 100 pounds in the past five years, the problem is that it is the same 20 pounds
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We are now well over halfway through the “new normal” baseball season, and things appear to be pretty normal in that my team is mired in the near cellar of the division. After the spring training shutdown and subsequent wrangling over when and how the season would happen at all, I heard a phrase that
I just returned from a few days on the road to relax and unwind. I guess I have owed it to myself, I haven’t had an actual vacation since there was a Black man in the White House. So, I decided to get away for a few days with my wife (those who read my