This evening I have an owee on my nose, but I am feeling pretty dang happy. I last wrote to you when we were still in New York. Let me tell you about our adventure getting home to Florida first. Then I will tell you about the nose. Our last day in NY, Steve's kids came over for dinner. Steve's son brought his guitar and speaker and I got to hear him play a tiny bit as he and Steve fiddled with the controls on the speaker. And get this, a year and a half after I started hanging out with Steve, I finally got to hear him strum a guitar. But they didn't play a tune for me. They just putzed. Some day... Our flight from Albany, NY to St Pete, FL was to take off on Monday at 7 pm. Steve's daughter gave us a ride to the airport. We arrived in plenty of time. We boarded the plane. We were practically the only passengers with masks on. We didn't want to risk taking something nasty home to our friends in Florida. The plane didn't start rolling. Instead the pil
Hey There, we are still in the Adirondacs. I guess I missed sharing with you the picture I took during totality. You can't see the moon covering the sun in the picture, but you can see the darkness, and the light off in the distance like a sunset all around on the horizon. And you can see ...I think it was Venus. This morning we took it easy for a while. I studied Spanish using Duolingo, read the news, and did some of my Physical Therapy exercises. Steve made us an amazing breakfast. Then we bundled up to go for a hike up Ampersand Mountain near Saranac Lake. Right away we were peeling clothes. It must have been about 50 degrees and the trail started climbing right away. It was a fun and scenic trail with extremely tall trees, lots of little streams to cross, and stones to step on to avoid the mud puddles and traverse the mucky places. We climbed 1600 feet and walked 5.5 miles. We didn't make it to the top, the trail became a steep sheet of ice with water flowing over i