I just went inactive from this blog in mid 2017 …. I don’t know, lack of interest, lack of ambition, who knows. My interest tends to jump around from time to time and it was just one of those times. So, why was I doing a blog to begin with? I think more than anything else, I wanted to see if I could learn enough to do it myself, without help other than online guides and searches. I think I did that to my satisfaction and just decided to move on to something else of interest. Most blogs/bloggers are chasing “followers”, people who read the content and appreciate if for their own reasons thereby validating the blogger’s effort. To be honest, there were only two people who really followed and read this blog anyway, me and my mother-in-law Virginia.
Here we are, half of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and now half way into 2022 — dang, that’s five years and a lot has taken place during those five years. I won’t go into a lot of detail on what’s taken place in that time, but will outline some key happenings: My one and only blog follower has passed on and we miss her; we lost our last golden retriever companion; Allie Mae and we miss her too; Our Son and his wife relocated to Dallas from Florida and that makes us very happy; Kay has had major foot and back surgery; Kay has become an active Dallas County Master Gardner; We lost a much loved grand daughter to gun violence; Kay and I both experienced Covid 19 first hand; Kay lost her younger brother to Covid; I have experienced and moved past prostate cancer; we have sold our home of thirty plus years and moved into the Highland Springs Senior Living Community. That pretty much covers the main events of those five years past.
Wow, a lot has changed in five years, but there is much that is unchanged. We are reasonably healthy for our age, we still love each other unconditionally, we still love and treasure our family relationships, Kay continues to be an active, competitive bridge player, we still love all dogs and especially our grand-dogs Bear and Goose, Kay continues to be the “much loved” social butterfly while I continue to be the “sometimes grumpy” social hermit, and we continue to explore and develop new interests along the way.
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