Okay, the gap since last posting is because I have been crashing on the first-ever fundraiser event we put on for the Homestead Town Hall Museum. I’m sure I posted previously that this event was supposed to have been prior to our Viking cruise and the major HCA event of Art and Artisan show was also supposed to have been before the cruise. My intent was to have these two things which take a huge effort would be done so I wouldn’t have them facing me upon return. Due to other factors, each had to be re-scheduled. That resulted in us getting back with only 11 days before the HCA event and the museum event following 19 days after that. Then of course, there were all the usual things to take care of. In other words, even for me, the convergence of tasks has been pretty close to exhausting. On the other hand, there were people helping and that did make a big difference. The “downside” was neither event was as successful as we had expected. Lots of work for a minimal return. As usual in these situations, there is no clear-cut was to determine to “why”, which of course gives way to speculation. Those “what-if’s” and “maybe we should haves” are tricky. Anyway, there is one more set of tasks I must deal with over the next week and then perhaps I’ll be on the usual busy, yet manageable scale.

On the family side, kids are booked with flights for the post-Christmas trip and for the next few years, their schedule allows us to fly them home Jan 2d instead of the 1st. That makes life simpler and we can enjoy a leisure day of recovery for New Year’s Day. Mother Nature wasn’t very kind last year with unseasonably cold weather for the first part of their stay. Hopefully, we’ll be normal this time.