What can I say about the month of June? Well, best to admit, it was special. During our time in Munich when Margo and I were attending a conference at which I was speaking, the idea came to us that perhaps we were doing too much. There was a shared sense of being overwhelmed where the first thoughts about how best to simplify our lives were discussed. Central to these thoughts was what could we do with the Colorado condo we had acquired two years earlier? Was having a second residence, one that was very close to our grandkids, really meeting all of our expectations in this regard. At this time of year, the heat has been turned up in Florida. When daytime temperatures touch 90F with humidity hovering around 50% there’s no missing the news that pool temps are already at 90F without any outside interference. Don’t need to have the pool heater fired up although, for the spa, there will be a need to run the spa heater for a short time – we like the spa temp set to 102F. With this in mind,...
Whereas Margo never really likes to mix business with pleasure, this past month such a mix was unavoidable. Business required us to participate in a HPE Nonstop community gathering in Dallas (Hurst), Texas. Pleasure, if it is fair to call it that, required us to return to Longmont, Colorado. The serious side of selling our condo to our daughter Anna and our son-in-law Erich was to begin and we had a desire to get this moving so we could make plans for the rest of the year. We readily recall having stepped off a Princess cruise ship during the early months of 2026 and, here it is, almost half-way through the year, and another journey beckoned. It’s safe to say that in our honest opinion the years seem to be passing by rather quickly. In so doing it seems we are just wrapping up a future plan when the future arrives. We do like to travel, as this blog ceaselessly reminds us all, but it’s getting a bit old of late, not so much the travel but as our peers will attest, it’s th...