I’m sitting outside on my lanai patio with a cup of coffee as the sun rises over the Sierras - in my pajamas, no less. There’s an awful lot to be said for distant neighbors! We arrived home to damaged carpet and a BB gun hole in a large picture window, so we’re working out the details of replacing both, which essentially means that while we’re living here, we’re doing so with the bare minimum of furniture. Until after Memorial Day. One more chapter in this adventure of ours.

Surprisingly, the landscape around our patio has survived, if not thrived. A bit of care and water ought to fix that! We’re dealing with a population explosion of gophers and ants (both outside, thankfully), and an overabundance of weeds. Even so, we should have our garden in by next weekend at the latest. Have I mentioned that we haven’t STOPPED since we got here?  And somewhere in there I need to get back to my writing gig!