There must have been a rash of duck invasions from feedings, that or there was a plague of bird droppings due to concentration of fowl. Something has prompted this new Ordinance and associated brand new signage. Anyway, the Ordinance has not yet been added to the city’s law clearinghouse yet, so no details are available. Stay tuned for updates…
One adventure that we hope to repeat is another whale watching trip out of Bellingham, Washington. A few years ago we were blessed with the opportunity to take a day cruise around the San Juan Islands in the Salish Sea north of Seattle. So many wildlife sightings of both sea animal and birds happened. The highlight of course was the sighting of a pod of orca killer whales, part of which is seen in the above photo we took. Note it shows an adult and a juvenile.
Road construction in the middle of our town continues this winter
Yes there are crews working today
What you see used to be a traffic circle. The new plan calls for the cross streets to intersect in the middle, passing straight through the town square. Right now there is one lane each way running around one side of the old traffic circle. It’s quite confusing.
This is one of our favorite photos from adventures past. We saw this cute family of ducks on a walk together and thought we’d share it again for you!
The local noon news announced that Indiana health officials today dropped the age for seniors to be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine from 70 to 65. We immediately got online to the State Health Department website and started the registration process. Within about 45 minutes Sher and I both had confirmed appointments back to back two weeks from today, on February 15th at our local Health Department Office.
Won’t be too long before we’ll be able to be back in the rig on the road again.
We’ve been really stewing over when we would be able to get the vaccine. We’ve even looked for states where we might be able to get the vaccine without having residency in that state. Fortunately we can stop that search now. What we have now is the chance to let loose with a sigh of relief and have a timeline in sight for future travel plans.
Well, we’ve got another 3 inches of snow on the ground when we woke up today. Snow pictures are sometimes boring, so here’s a picture from last summer.
The squirrel is enjoying a little snack of some kind. The young tree in the tomato cage is a Black Cherry seedling that we got free from the local Extension Service. We also got Tulip tree seedlings as well.
We hope we can get our vaccines soon so we can get away from the Indiana winter and head south somewhere where it’s warm.
Watching the CBS morning show this Sunday we saw a report on “The 500-year history of the pocket” The video was very interesting as I had never really thought about the story of how pockets came into being in clothing and fashion. The piece showed lots of history as well as quite a bit of past and current controversy over the inequality of men’s and women’s fashions use of pockets throughout history. Check out the link above for the CBS report.
After the segment on TV, Sher and I started talking about it. Sher asked what I carried in my pockets. I replied that since our being stuck with the virus I haven’t used pockets! Actually I have not really used many pockets since my daughter gifted me with the sling bag pictured above with the things I usually have with me. Guess this leads to a hopeful additional purpose of this post. What do you carry in your pockets? Do you even have pockets? Agree with some of the gender inequalities brought up in the CBS report?
Strange as it sounds, we’ve been waiting for a decent snow since we’re still stuck in Indiana. Snowfall is so pretty, and this evening it started at dark. Up to 5 – 6 inches is forecast before morning, which is the most accumulation yet from any event this winter.
We noticed this little bunny just sitting in the yard seemingly really enjoying the snowfall. He was there long enough to begin to get a covering of snowflakes on his back. He sat there for quite a few minutes.
Snow is starting to stick!
This time last year we were enjoying an RV Resort in the Texas Hill Country west of Austin. With any luck we can get our covid vaccines sooner than later and be able to get on the road again.
Space X, United States Space Force and the International Space Station all are interesting topics of late. Not wanting to be left out, we launched another 1000 piece puzzle to help keeping us from totally going nutso during the virus situation!
Our son picked this one out, and we’re just beginning to put it together. As you can see, we’ve started on a bit of the borders. And to quote that famous space traveler Buzz Lightyear: “To infinity…and beyond!” At least until the puzzle is done…
Don’t let your guard down! Stay safe and get your vaccine as soon as you can!
What to do and so many choices. That is the situation we are in. We sold our spacious 4 bedroom home with an in-ground swimming pool 5 years ago. Our kids were all grown and college educated and we were ready for a big change. So we sold our house and bought an RV to travel the country. And that is what we did for 5 wonderful, exciting years. Then coronavirus struck and shut down the US. Being of the 65+ older population, yes we are “baby boomers”…we decided to play it safe and stay in our small 2 bedroom house in Indiana. Plus, we have our youngest son, who is unmarried and takes care of the house while we are gone, that would be able to help us. You know, grocery shopping, picking up our meds and etc.
Then we fast forward, or slowly forward to today. Should we continue our adventures or should we acknowledge we are getting older and stay put? It’s a big decision for us. Our kids live in Washington state, Texas, Ohio and Indiana, we’ve always had fun visiting them while we travel. We are pretty healthy and able to get around and take care of ourselves. We’ve spent a winter in Harlingen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley which we loved. We were enjoying wintering in the Hill Country west of Austin when the virus hit the US and then we got coronavirsed in after retuning to Indiana. We were going to spend this winter’s months in the southern part of Texas and visit our Texas family while there.
So, maybe writing it down has helped me see things clearer and I’m questioning why I’m even thinking of giving up our adventurous traveling lifestyle. We just wish we could get our COVID-19 vaccines sooner than later.
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