I am writing this on Sunday, 11/10. There are no pics this week.

Bud moved as planned. Danita did a fabulous job of organizing what would move and what wouldn’t. Everything went perfectly. Bud slept at Riderwood Friday night. Now the focus is getting the living area of his house empty so we can get painters in to do their work. The big decisions are made (such as which pots to move and which to leave behind). Now there is a sort of everything that’s left behind — especially papers. I can help by carrying sorted stuff around the house and putting it in various piles (donate, trash, take to Riderwood). Danita and I spent the last two day’s at Bud’s old house. We will also be there all day Monday. We hope that we will have the sorting of the living area done Monday. Then we’ll give Bud a week to move stuff around between the piles. We’ll  be back Friday to start working on the basement. Next Suday everybody will be there. We’ll go to Leona’s anniversary funeral mass, then have brunch. After brunch we’ll move stuff out to it’s designated destination. I’ll send Bud’s new address and phone number soon. We don’t have confirmation on his new phone number yet.

Early last week I got a little careless and hurt my back. I missed Yoga Tuesday. My rule: don’t attend yoga if Mountain Pose is a challenge.(That’s standing on both feet in good posture.) By Friday, I was feeling pretty good, and went on a Cycle2Health ride. It was 15 miles to the ride start, 30 miles for the ride, and 15 miles home (60 miles in all). The weather was windy and cool but otherwise good. It was an area I hadn’t ridden in before. It was the end of the fall foliage season. At the end of the ride, I joined the group for lunch at a pub. It was much more than I normally spend on a biking lunch, but the food was quite good. Overall, it was a great ride.

By the end of the day today, my back was sore again. I’m pretty sure I will miss Yoga again next Tuesday.

Last week I wrote about cutting the cord. When I actually called Verizon to cancel our service, they suddenly had some lower cost plans available. We decided to switch to a plan that has the same internet and phone service, but the TV is local channels only, with no “on demand” programming. Our monthly bill is substantially reduced. We keep our home phone number, and get all the Baltimore and DC channels. I’ve been working on improving our home network because Danita’s computer doesn’t get a very strong Wi-Fi signal in the TV room. I ordered some stuff and should get that all squared away sometime next week.

Finally, I think I might have fixed the Email problem with my web site. I guess I’ll find out pretty soon, because I’m about to hit the “Publish” button.I hope this finds everybody doing well.