There are no pics this week.

It’s been a full week for both of us. Margo is one of the people who work for Danita. Margo and Danita are quite close. We attended Margo’s wedding. Margo’s mother has been very ill. Margo has had to take a lot of time off work lately to support her parents. Margo’s mom died Friday. Her mother lives a day’s drive from here, and the funeral will be private, so Danita won’t attend. It’s been an emotional time.

I am trying to condition myself for another bike tour. So far, I haven’t made enough progress to feel comfortable going on my Adirondacks bike & hike. In spite of the slow progress, I still have 6 weeks. I haven’t given up yet.

Our neighborhood IT committee had webinar presentations from three companies to help us with our web site. We rejected one company because their product doesn’t meet our needs. The other two have viable products. One of them helps communities build websites with WordPress, which would let me customize the site for our needs. It would be a lot of fun. We expect to make a recommendation this month.

Danita and I are working on our Alaska cruise. We are looking at the activities we want to do at the various ports of call. We’ve decided not to take any of the excursions offered by the cruise line. They tend to be quite expensive. We can do any of the activities we are interested in just by walking into town. In one case, we’ll have to take bus. We think we can manage that on our own. If one wants to ride the world’s longest Zip line (for example), the only way to do that is to take an excursion. But we aren’t all that interested in Zip lines, or helicopter rides, or special whale watching boat trips. We’ll settle for the whales we see from the side of our cruise ship.

We’re also getting excited about Kathryn’s visit. She said she plans to arrive July 28 and leave August 2. It should be a lot of fun having her around.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.