Sunday, January 1, 2023

Happy New Year, and Hello Again!

 I’ve missed you all!!


I won’t apologize for my fall and holiday complete slack off except to say I completely slacked off. There is nothing wrong with me that wasn’t wrong with me before, lol. I took excessive time to “veg out”, took a trip to Denver to see my son (from now on I believe that I'll be alternating holidays so next Christmas will be in the cold cold north), did some introspecting about blogging and life and the world as we know it, and so on. 


All of which should give me lots of fodder for blogging here for the next month or so at least.


Speaking of introspection, I am glad I will now be spending a holiday each year in the north or the north that is Colorado (I’m assuming my son will come here in the summer). But man o man, I do not question in any way my decision to move. Even after my experiences with some brief Texas freezes and even with the Time Hell Froze Over not that far behind me. This is now my place. I know my sister would love it if I moved back and shared the house, but this is now my place. Aside from the temperature differences and the friends I have made, the house would require just too many adjustments and we have completely different temperature requirements. I mean, they keep the house at 67 now I’m gone and this place is easily at 72 minimum during daylight hours.


But it truly is a lovely place to visit, in every respect, a couple times a year!


What else during this partial update?  I have restarted or rather reimagined my retired women’s meetup that I think I was just working on before. It’s a slow start but I am looking forward to meeting new friends, but it will never be at the social or energy level of the one I had in Denver (which, by the way is still equally active with the people who took over). Three different social events with one group every week is no longer my thing, if it ever was. So now we plan something once a week or so, keep it very low key and limit the number so we can each get to know each other.


I’ve been doing a lot of creativity. Or maybe a lot of activity that’s a little creative. I played around in about ten different mediums over six weeks and made a fun list and pinterest boards of things I want to do, but not much got finished. I have partial weaving projects, art journal projects, an unfinished christmas quilt, and two knitting projects just off the top of my head. Even us non organizational types need a little help sometimes, so I am spending the last five days of Christmas reorganizing my craft room studio and a corner of my living room so that I can accommodate multiple projects at a time. I may not have attention disorder of any kind but my need to dabble, putter and flit seems to increase exponentially with age.


I do have a list of goals and a bucket list for the new year, and I will share those shortly with you all. I have four unvisited and unexplored states  and one that I have just hit a corner of. Since I won’t make it to Alaska this year, I’ll look for recommendations on which way to go. I also have some new skills I want to learn and other things I want to add to my daily and weekly “doings” mix, without taking myself totally back to pre-covid craziness.


More to come, but meanwhile, here’s an ask the readers for ya. My nephew is getting married in South Lake Tahoe in June. I’m trying to decide if this is a road trip worthy vacation, or a “sit between daughter and son in law and hold hands on the plane” trip. It's a good 24 hour drive from me and I’m just not sure driving through that part of Nevada and environs is worth the drive. Has anyone has ever done that drive either by car or RV from anything close to my neck of the woods?  


See you Monday or Tuesday. With photos.

24 comments:

  1. Nice to see you back to blogging! Happy New Year!

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  2. Happy New Year! I have spent the day making pinterest boards. I hope that I actually do something with them, lol.

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    1. I actually use mine instead of bookmarks. 3sp3cially for recipes and such like that, but yes, I have fifty boards and will never use everything I saved, lol.

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  3. Glad you're back. I enjoy following your retirement story as my own begins.

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  4. Glad to see you back blogging. Your plans for the New Year sound ambitious and fun!
    All the best in 2023.

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  5. "Dabble, putter and flit." I love that phrase, it describes me too!

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  6. Welcome back Barb, Glad you are well. I vote you fly into Tahoe. We lived there part-time for a number of years. Never had a visitor who enjoyed the drive from Texas or Colorado. (We had family in both places at the time.) Love Lake Tahoe. The bus from the Reno airport to Tahoe is very convenient.

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    1. Good to know. I traveledcto and from overseas for most of myblife and have no idea what this abject fear is now but I'll adjust. I'd rather have those miles and head to the gulf.

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  7. Welcome back, I always worry about you when you haven’t posted in a long time. We did a motorcycle trip over 30 years ago from Colorado Springs to California and drove from Ely Nevada to Lake Tahoe. From what I remember there’s not a lot between Ely and Reno and there are lots of stretches where there’s no services for over a 100 miles. If you like the desert it can be beautiful but it’s also a bit lonely in Nevada. But I am like you, I enjoy road trips. Kathy

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    1. I do. But thus one has an important destination and I would not have the chance to just stop and wander as I usually do. Even if there was something to see.

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  8. Welcome back! I’ve missed your blog and am always inspired by your creativity.

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  9. Happy New Year. You are really busy with creative projects.

    God bless.

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  10. Welcome back! We drove from Fort Worth to San Jose, and it's a rough drive. The route to South Lake Tahoe is a little different and maybe worse. Fly!

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  11. Welcome home. Hope all is going well.

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  12. Welcome back! No opinion on the road trip as I don't like driving more than a few miles from home now.

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  13. Seriously, fly. An awful drive.

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  14. I would fly into Reno and then rent a car to drive to Tahoe. The drive is one of the most beautiful in the world once you hit 89 and start going around the Lake.

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    1. I checked with husband and he said from Reno, take mt Rose hwy which he thinks is 431 and than you come into Incline and that's Hwy 28 and then go around the lake till you hit HWY 50 and that takes you into South Lake Tahoe. You could also take I 80 from Reno into Truckee and then 89 goes around the East side of Lake Tahoe and around Emerald Bay then on to South Lake Tahoe.

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