Keeping The Windmill Alive – June 2023

A new month, another month gone. Time marches on!

June 1. I've been getting into CDs lately. This journey started about 5 years ago when I heard about "limited edition" cds. I now have a 27 gal container full of them. Some sets were purchased for $160 and now sell on eBay for over $500.

I sold a $28 face valued cd (I paid $60) for $180 early 2022. Thought oh well a fool and his money are easily parted. Today, same CD $250-$300. I still have another copy never opened.

None of the above is anything I pretend to understand, but I'm going with it lol

I’ll be glad to get home again on June 3rd. Living out of a suitcase since May 10 is no fun anymore.

Just doing a little walking after surgery

Hot!

nothing

Yeah.. sure..

Just finished 2 2600 mile drives.. each took 38 hrs straight..

Glad that's over

Family in PA

Will be driving my long time friend's elderly mother a few hundred miles for what will almost certainly be the last time we'll ever see him.

He's been fighting cancer for a couple of years, but was told by his doctors the other day that there's nothing more they can do for him.

Wish I could post something a bit more uplifting here right now. Sorry.

Too hot here for the first of June.

to various doctor offices.

Watching Fubar on Netflix, not bad!

Nothing special

It's saddening to feel the loss of a loved one; so sorry.

the garden takes up most of my time now being retired doing home projects ! not allowed any more on a ladder or work on anything heavy im only 81 LOL

Argee with you, I will be 81 in 8 days and it's hard to do anything with all the restrictions.

well the rain has dropped the smoke out of the air
32000 acres burnt, before summer even properly started
makes me homesick

Here we go

After experiencing Israel, Jordan and Egypt over the last 25 days I have come to the conclusion that Egyptians cannot drive a car if it dd not have a horn just as Italians couldn't talk without hands/arms.

Spinner

So sorry. I know the feeling. If it wasn't for the clinical trial in Houston I would have been going down the same road.
Mary

Happy Sunday to all...

Hills are now completely brown in this part of CA until at least October now...

for another week

Nowhere interesting. Getting ready for a couple of things later this summer.

Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it.

Thank you so much. Good to hear that you are doing well.

I go over to our 40'RV motorhome and check for anything unusual, like mice. Start it up and let the air bag system inflate. Do a walk around and then plan a trip on the computer.

However...... Can't drive the beast until about September or October, so I just go to physical therapy and look forward to our next trip.

Such is life. Not complaining, just counting the days.

Washington, DC to Hanover, PA

Heading out tomorrow for a dangerous trip. Going to be camping for 3 nights with BOTH of my wife's sisters and their hubbies. GAH!!! Singly they make me crazy but both of them together will be nuts. Just made a query of geocaches in the area of the campground. Maybe I can escape for a while.

Will use my trusty nüvi 760 to get to the campground and my GPSMAP 78S to find the geocaches (or at least some solitude). "The guys" want to go fishing but I gave up fishing 20 years ago. One of my wife's sisters suggested "the girls" go "antique shopping" during that time. My wife told her that sounded "like torture". When asked what she planned to do my wife said, "A whole lot of nothing. We're camping!"

For reference we just got back a couple of weeks ago from a 3 week camping trip to Arizona to visit a few more US National Parks - we've been to something like 43 of them now - and have our own "style" of camping. We've camped in deserts and mountains from roasting hot to freezing cold and from well below sea level to over 2 miles high. Sometimes we are many miles down dirt roads with no other people for miles. We travel with a small Teardrop trailer which is pretty much a queen bed on wheels. There's a small hatch compartment with a refrigerator that looks like an ice chest and I keep my cooking stuff in that back compartment. My wife's sisters think "camping" is traveling with a big trailer and staying at a KOA with hookups, showers, a store, lawn, etc.

It's going to be an "interesting" trip. Compared to some of our camps where we have been visited by bears, buffalo, rattle snakes, scorpions, fox, and skunks, and listened to cougar's yowl in the night, this one seems much more dangerous. I hope I can survive the experience.

RT

Sounds like you've found a recipe for creating your own delightful experiences.

Italians can't drive without swearing every 5 seconds and honking the horn for emphasis. All justified of course, because they drive like they are in a Grand Prix. I wouldn't drive in Rome again if you paid me.

Ocean and river cruising in Europe

Baseball, hospital - no relation

When I do, it is because I missed my exit.

Another month is here and I'm going to enjoy it. Whither I like it or not.

nothing

To an offsite training.

Where the chilling winds don't blow.

Smokey

Hello

Only 19 years and I will be 100.

and I took a road trip to DE, watched Super Mario Bros.

Dawned on me, he's 9, and this is the first time I've seen a movie with him (seen 5 concerts and 2 NHL games).

Seats are reserved and you push a button to recline them? Never seen it before but I know it's been around. Good thing I didn't purchase only, there would have been like a $4 fee. for what?!

We then hit Costco, a liquor store, and a big box store. yep because of the sales tax being 0% lol

I think of your generation as being the real "rock stars."

Your generation is the real deal. Likely has the best values and has worked the hardest. just my .02

Here we go

Where to?

Have a good weekend.

Posting your profits from sales of CDs may make it easier for taxing authorities to come after you.
Mark