Goodwill accepts donations on Wednesday. First thing Wednesday I took several of Mom’s donations. Danita offered to help, but there was no room for her in the car. I was dreading this because Goodwill wants us to sort donated items in some scheme that only they understand. But this visit was a breeze. They’ve made donating a lot easier. They have empty shopping carts. Just fill one up, roll it to the door, rinse and repeat.

Yesterday, Ed and Lynne came down. After enjoying a very nice lunch salad they took away the last of the donation items.

Having reclaimed the garage bay, I went to park the car in the garage. It was covered with small sticky balls of sap from the trees. A quick trip to the car wash took care of that. I also cleaned the deck and porch yesterday. Speaking of “rinse and repeat”, this is the heaviest pollen I recall. For the first time ever, I had to do a pre-wash before washing. The good news is that the spring chores are “Done done done done” (to the tune of Dragnet, coolest TV song ever).

There’s nothing on the calendar today. What will I do? Unfortunately, it’s rain and showers today, so no bike rides. My back is sore. That limits choring. I guess I’ll just have to take a day off.

Dani and Gayle are coming tomorrow to spend some time with Mom. Danita will pick them up from the airport because It’s my turn to help count the take. Tomorrow afternoon we plan to attend Motus. It sounds intriguing.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.

We’ve been eating food and listening to music. The big news is that Mom in her new apartment in assisted living. There’s lots of changes that require adapting. My “2do” is still growing. One car is parked in the driveway while we sort through the smaller items, temporarily in a variety of piles in the garage bay. Our goal is to get all this sorted by the end of the week. We’ll see…

We’re having Easter dinner at Ed and Lynne’s this afternoon. Happy Easter to all.

These are busy days. We are in the final push to get Mom ready for her move to assisted living. It’s a lot of work, but we are also doing fun things. We took Mom out to eat for her 95th birthday. We went to a luncheon at UMBC. The speaker was the founder of the American Visionary Art Museum. The event included tasty appetizers and a nice lunch before the talk. The guest speaker has a world view similar to many other artists, which is to say it is totally foreign to me. We went to a concert for a string duo — violin and double bass. The musical offerings were eclectic but good. We had a good time.

I hope everybody is doing well.