A final post 2330L but Pacific time (see the bottom)

Happy New year!

Moving beyond 2017 to 2018. Day to day, week to week, and month to month.

Three hundred sixty five to fifty two to twelve.

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Transition - private lot to near by neighbors.

We now share a wall with one neighbor and an association road with a dozen others. Before, for the first fifteen years two neighbors were over one football field away. Then for the next ten years four houses were intruding visually but still out of listening range.

Now we also are two miles closer to two busy thoroughfares into the city.  Mail is still a one quarter mile round-trip walk (or bicycle ride). Setting out the trash is now a two car length lug on a flat surface. Before was a 377 foot uphill trudge on a gravel or snow packed drive.

And best of all a monthly fee results in a plowed and shoveled entry walk and garage pad.

Life is good.

One half way across the country.

In thirteen months we flew to either Nebraska or Minnesota three times and drove once.  From the East coast to middle America about every one hundred days on average.  Why?  To see Rose and her parents.  THE  END.

Walking in a quiet neighborhood!

Summer and fall walking is on sidewalks. Now after snow and then freezing rain the sidewalk is gone. Two brief warm spells may melt and clear most of my paths.

Heavy lifting

Church work often involves set up and take down. Today concludes four weeks of work!

Pick up and stack 80 chairs then unstack and set up two hundred others!

Public space clean up!

Typical careless trash is mixed with natural vegetation.

Specifically, leaves and cigarettes.

Lazy, lazy, lazy.   Makes one curious if they trash the floor at home. We know lungs are trashed.