HAPPINESS, is to have everything…
you need!
NOT the need to have everything.

10.30.2022-Sunday-Carla’s new hobby.

As I have mentioned before in one of my other blogs, Carla and I basically mark time each day with very simple tasks to face each day; mainly Doctors. We did visit Carla’s cousin Connie a couple of years ago and she mentioned she’d taken up a new hobby; diamond painting. I know, the name sounds like a very expensive hobby, but no. It basically consists of a mat with very little color in it but lot and lots of paint by number. In place of paints and filling in large areas on a mat, you make use of colored dots. Each dot number on the unfinished mat corresponds to a colored dot or bead, a better way of describing them. It’s not difficult but it is painstakingly tedious. each square inch of mat you see in the picture consists of 64 or more beads of different colors. To see how intense this hobby is, take your thumb and index finger and place them in the center of the picture and expand the picture size. Something else, hun! Carla is working on her second project except instead of the beads being square they’re round. I know, you’re saying “so what!” Square beads must be placed perfectly square in each receptive bead spot or it might not look as nice as it should. The round beads, fitting in round holes go in imperfectly with very little difficulty, cutting down the amount of time this project should take. If you have an interest in this, possibly, give Carla a call to learn more.

11.23.2021-Tuesday
Has it really been since October of 2021 since the last time I’ve written anything. So much has happened; yet I sometimes feel that each day is very much a “groundhog day.” 

09.20.2021 Laurel Lock RVP Oakdale, CT

Out of sheer boredom I went back into my photos only to find that in 2021 I’d taken almost 4000 pictures!!! All this time I figured we’d just stopped living.

This location did not even make it into the travel blog, at least, not yet. The hard copy has been ordered so I cannot change that situation but I will update the digital portion. It was this time last year that we decided to devote to Fr. Michael Gill, a life-long friend, pretty much like family. Seems so long ago. We enjoyed our stay there very much.

This location was central to many venues I wanted to take in. Cheryl and Mike don’t live that far away, Cheryl in Norwich and Mike in Quincy, MA. Most importantly Fr. Michael who lives in New London, CT. Just took a quick look at the digital version of my travel blog and I was right. I never mentioned Laurel Lock, except as a line-item for September 20th.

According to the time-schedule we ended up spending 2-weeks at this location. Yup! Bottom picture in the Journey our last mobile-home. I would be kidding you if I said I still did not miss it; I do. But life is ever changing and there are very few choices. Carla and I were both very fortunate to have had even those few months in our lives. I’m not going to go into to much detail about the campground except for adding just a few more pictures so you might enjoy it as much as we did. This felt good, hope I can find more to write about.

01.19.2022-Update
Carla continues to do well. It’s not to say there are no down days, that’s to be expected. Last week, unusually, she had four-down-days in a row and started get back to “normal” yesterday. We continue to do “housee” things. The additional cabinet arrived, and we put it together for the bathroom and yesterday we confirmed with a contractor to install screening around the front porch on the third week in Feb. I think we’ve located everything that has some importance to us finally. Storage in the house, considering how small it is, is adequate and the shed outdoors is working out well.

12.24.2021- Christmas Eve Day

Could any two individuals be any happier. This chapter in our lives is far from over but, at the same time, it’s a good time to reflect on days we’ve enjoyed and document all those days we’re about to continue enjoying. Today, as you know, is Christmas Eve.

As you can see our tree has been trimmed and the stockings are hung and what you don’t see is both of us just laying back and enjoying the day with Hallmark Christmas Movies and listening to our old CDs once again. 

Unlike the past eight-years, this year we’ll enjoy Christmas in our new home. It may not look like it, but this new home is just about the same size as our last couch. I forgot to add, we needed a shed to provide the additional storage the coach had in its under-floor storage bins. This, however, is just a sub-chapter in our life together.

The early-early years. Our life together began in 1990. Shortly after we married Carla mentioned that a colleague of hers had their family boat for sale.

It was just a 22-footer and worth every inch of it. In our second year with the PJ&CO we took if on our biggest challenge; we boated to Block Island, NY. Twenty minutes out we lost sight of land, but Carla did not even give it a moment of concern.  She was right, of course, and within another 15-minutes we had land in our sights-Awesome!

We attended the Newport Boat Show in 1993, I think, for just the fun of it and we discovered the Bayliner 33-footer. We both fell in love with it. It was like going from a 15ft travel trailer to a motorhome.

With no help from Loran. I did everything I could you feed the precise Lat/Long coordinates, but rarely nailed a Buoy on the first shot, yet given all my petty failures Carla never fretted- We always managed to get back to port before dark.