Kaitlyn, Lexie, and Granddad went to the Adventure Park

Poor Yiayia caught a cold and couldn't come 😢. We tried to have a good time anyway. 

 

Last picture of Mom

 I was going through photos this morning and realized I had never identified this picture as the last one of Mom. She was having a good day - Hershey bars always did it for her. It was not the best time - COVID made visiting pretty much impossible.

We Moved to Maryland

Eleni just hid the For Sale sign from the front of our house!

After 21 years, we left New Mexico to return to the state of our births. NM is "No country for old men," and Eleni wanted to be nearer to her sisters. We bought a house in Frederick without having visited it ourselves (Zak & our agent toured it for us while streaming video back to us). That was kind of too bad, because there was a lot of stuff wrong that we might have caught. But, there are lots of contractors in MD to fix all that stuff.

Goodbye to LCVFD and NM

We left a lot of great memories (detailed in other blog posts) behind - grandsons, LCVFD, our beautiful but too big home, NM MRC (not really), Jemez Pueblo, Santa Fe National Forest, Chewie, Arkoutha, neighbors, lack-of-traffic, and the mountains. We also left behind scarce medical care, horrible roads, horrible education, Starlink ($$ internet), miles to anywhere.

We got granddaughters, Independent Hose (work-in-progress), a more manageable home, NM MRC (really), Gambrill & other state parks, lots of traffic, and "mountains." John has walked and biked to grocery stores, hardware, government offices (service with a smile, but a big fee). We got a selection of doctors😩, a newly-paved road in front of our home, schools everywhere, and Xfinity (oh well). Contractors, of which we have hired many, show up at 7:30 am on the day they say they would show up.

We also got a lot of breweries:

• Idiom - great
• RAK - great
• Prospect Point - beautiful location
• Olde Mother - OK
• Monocacy - biggest disappointment
• Attaboy - haven't been yet - stay tuned
• Midnight Run - ditto
• Rockwell - ditto
• Steinhardt - ditto 

Did I miss any?

This is an old photo. We have MD vanity license tags now

Our garage is just big enough to get our vehicles in. A shed arrives in a few weeks that will allow most of the stuff in the garage to get out of the way!

A short video to show how cool my truck is now (despite it being linked to Elon in many minds)

We biked/boarded downtown with Zak. Happily he was uninjured by the car that turned while is was in a crosswalk

We visited Harpers Ferry in the Fall:

From above

Town center

The railroad station!

The Firehouse! aka John Brown's Fort

The railroad bridge. We never got to see a train crossing.

This sign was hanging in The Rabbit Hole:

We were obviously confused, having been to El Malpais and being pretty sure it was in New Mexico!

John visited Gathland by himself, but later took Eleni:

We walked/slogged the Bay Bridge Run:

Along the way

John at Mile 1. It was cold!

Eleni wearing the MILE 3 signboard

Eleni at the finish line

Two views of the sunrise at Zeta & Sean's:

That's it for now! More blogging from Maryland to come.