I could totally take some of the posts in my draft folder and fine tune them, manually make the date(s) for the posts in July and miraculously create July posts....but I won't.
I'm a bit mystified at why I'm not inclined to write these days - but I'm not. Days fly by at a record pace and the business of life feels like 'enough'. Documenting all the stuff that is retirement life seems unnecessary?
I don't know. I'm just finding it hard to want to write.
It might have started when I re-read some historical posts and realized how much fiction is among all my musings. H.'s issues are everywhere and it's hard to wade through it all and realize the pure fiction of pretty much all of it.
It's created hesitancy about writing anything (else) about how things are going 'cuz truly? We have no idea how things are really going. We know what he shares and hope things are as he says but we have no way to verify much of anything.
Things are hard sometimes. We're muddling through.
We attended a Reno Symphony Orchestra concert on July 3rd at the Ball Field downtown - shared a sky box with friends and had a wonderful evening. The concert was epic, food was good and the fireworks were spectacular. My brilliant husband parked the car in an area where no one else parked which had us out of the multi-story garage in record time - avoided the 20+ minute wait others were having going the opposite route. (I can't explain how/why but there was another set of ramps we found totally by accident). We were out of there in a flash.
J. is enjoying the season of loads of golf play. Between his three golf 'clubs' and the annual Atlantis Cup tournament (which he's played in every year since we moved here), he is gone usually at least three days a week. I miss him - the house is quiet and he's good company - but I am happy he's doing lots of his favorite thing with a bunch of really nice friends. I enjoy being the drink girl on the third tee when they play at Silver Oak - which they do most Thursdays.
B. is arriving on September 13th for not quite two weeks and we are excited to have him visit. We offered to pay for his ticket to come here for the (last) Reno Air Races and he was excited - and was able to arrange two weeks of leave. He's moving to a new apartment at the end of August so he will be pretty busy and ready for a nice vacation break. We aren't nailing down too many plans - other than the Air show - he will likely try to visit friends in the Bay Area for a few days.
J. and I (mostly J. but I'm helping a smidge) are working on continued tidying of the stones on the labyrinth. The yard is blooming finally - Spring was basically non-existent and freak cold spells kept the earth chilly - it's taken a long time this year for things to finally bloom. We lost a lot of plants again this year - likely just the long-term brutal cold and so much snow - but we replaced some already and will likely replace more next Spring - if there is a Spring.
Lake Washoe is all the way 'full' to the freeway - and while we are starting to see some of the previously covered in water 'marsh' area(s), there's still an incredible amount of run off. Small bits of snow still clinging to the higher peaks around us - a reminder of just how much snow there was.
July had us at Atlantis mostly on Saturdays and Sundays - but in August, they are not hosting 'Local Bonus Freeplay' on Saturdays weekly - just one Saturday this month - so we've added playing at Tamarack in South Reno to our rotation. We are really enjoying it there - tons of Dragonlink machines for me and good Keno machines for J. . They have enticed us further with food offers and extra free play so instead of Saturdays @ Atlantis in August, we're doing Sundays there and Fridays at Tamarack. It's been a lot of fun. Last week, we ran into our (now retired) casino host M. at Tamarack - having lunch with her partner. She was shocked to see us there - but I'd told her when she retired 'we're loyal to you - not so much Atlantis' and guess her 'catching us' playing there confirmed it.
I love Atlantis but getting a Dragonlink Machine there is very hard most weekends.
OK. I think I'll stop now, get this posted and move on to working through the massive pile of paperwork sitting on my desk goading me into being productive.
Thanks for reading.
