Fun Holiday

Hello,

It was great to go to an outdoor band concert with friends. I am so glad they thought of it. We liked going in Burlington where we could just walk into the park and be there. Somehow it had escaped our notice here. So good to visit with others!

Now today we spent much of the day with just ourselves. Leroy had gotten inspired a couple days ago and moved our TV to a new location in the living room. Today it was on to bigger and better moves. We moved out the secretary that had belonged to his family and put it in the spare bed room. It fit by shifting the dresser and bookcase around and removing a chair. I kept saying, “If I knew we were never going to live in a bigger place again, I would get rid of the dining room table that we have in the computer room. We are also both ready to get rid of the old school desk that we have moved many times. Then there is a big black pillow that Brian got rid of at his house and I thought the grandchildren might like to use it when they visited, but it is mostly ignored so it is going. I am also going to get rid of one of the rocking chairs. Life is just too crowded. In spite of that we still talk about getting a couch, but can’t quite bring ourselves to bring it into this small area.

Last night our guest suggested that the box that converts the signal for our old TV might be what causes the channel to break up. I think son, Brian, had suggested this some time ago, but it sometimes takes a while and more pressure for an idea to settle in. So maybe we will get that new TV because we certainly are not going to buy a new box for this 15+ year old model.

We went on an extended bike ride in the late afternoon. We checked out the chalk drawings downtown before heading off to parks looking fruitlessly for a place to cook hotdogs over a wood fire. We have hotdogs left from when the grandkids stayed with us. Leroy declared that the only way he would eat them is if they were cooked over an open fire, hence the search for a fire pit. I was pleased that so many people were using the parks. Somehow that seems right and proper for an Independence Day celebration. We will try again tomorrow as we both have the day off.

Paula