Hello there.

Hi everybody.

How are you?

I missed you guys. 

There's a lot going on, huh? We'll get to all that. But first, some pictures from my morning walk, back at home this morning for the first time in forever:

My first stop was the art gallery, where there were a lot of cheerful things.

 

The Town has repainted one of our crosswalks on the bike trail.

Someone put this sticker in a very appropriate location. Genius artwork.

The chalk bandit strikes again.

And the sticker bandit, too.

Fungi.

And lots of flowers.

Mrs. Marshall's rose garden is really showing off.

Highly recommend this place. Try the cashew chicken or the Panang curry. Oh yum.

This guy was at the coffee shop.

And back at home, my zinnias and asters are starting to bloom, and I have a couple of poblanos!!!

Future salsa verde. I can't wait.

I think Rufus is glad that I'm home. 

Rewinding now to forever ago, when my little family was tick-free, had clean and dry laundry, and ready to hit the road. We took a quick morning walk, stopped by the Little Free Dog Library, and headed in two cars to a Newark, Delaware storage unit and the city parking office, dropped off a carload of stuff and one of the cars, and continued to Upstate NY via the dreaded New Jersey Turnpike. WAZE, which is usually pretty great, tried to send us through the Lincoln Tunnel and into Manhattan, but I wasn't having it, so we took an alternate route through Paterson, NJ, which was, um, interesting.

We reached our destination in the dark, but we woke up the next morning to find a visitor in our back yard. No big deal, just a bald eagle hanging out by our rowboat. 

And so began two weeks of ups and downs, and loading and unloading cars, and walks and kayak paddles, and cleaning and shopping and organizing, and celebrating birthdays, and just so so much stuff. I'll put some pictures of all that in another post. Right now, though,I have a lot of catching up to do around here.

I hope you guys are ok. It's so hard to watch the news right now, isn't it? Thank you to everyone who is still standing up and speaking out in the face of the increasing danger of doing so. Silence isn't an option. Resistance is everywhere, and it's growing. Keep it up.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Onward.