Home Ownership

We have a new garage door. When you’re a homeowner, a lot of things become a priority that you’d just as soon not deal with. My husband and I are expert at kicking the can down the road until we have no choice but to deal with it. In this case, the garage door, after 45 years, decided it no longer wanted to open without my husband’s help. We’re not getting any younger so …

Voila! A garage door with windows!

Let the sun shine in!

It will be nice not to have to turn on a light every time we enter the garage.

Family

We visited my nephew and his family in South Carolina this weekend. Our first visit, but not our last. He has two teenage sons and a 6-year-old boy and (almost) 4-year-old girl. The drive from our home to Columbia was long (about 10 hours start to finish); the way home was only an hour shorter. But it was well worth it to have quality time with my nephew and his family and to be (at times) commandeered by his two youngest. For the most part, they considered us as furniture and spent a goodly amount of time sitting or lying on our laps. I had hoped to see a bit of Columbia itself, but once we were there, we just wanted to be with family.

Health

The last few weeks were spent seeing a lot of my orthopedic doctor as we (once again) tried a treatment to alleviate most of the pain in my left knee. Fortunately, I really like my doctor. She’s young, she listens, and she’s, overall, very cool. I received a series of hyaluronic acid injections as expected but she also removed a large amount of inflammatory fluid before each injection. Ick.

While my knee will never feel 100% great, I’m having a lot less pain. Fingers crossed it stays that way for a long while.

Flowers

It’s starting to bloom around here.

Cats

Raji and Wendy have a way of reminding me to enjoy the simple things in life, like the perfect sun squares for napping.

It’s so rare to see them willing to face each other while sleeping.

Thank you for reading!