Back into The Blogosphere

 We've been busy this past year in spite of the rest of the world shutting down for the pandemic.  Since our default setting has been "social distancing" for most of our lives, not too much seemed changed for us.  We did have to modify our restaurant visits.  We have had several cars and trucks and had never eaten in any of them over the years.  Suddenly, we found ourselves eating out of a paper bag in the car, balancing food in our laps.  NOT FUN!  But work around the property continued as usual with the possible exception of doing a lot more of it.  My garden expanded quite a bit, we put in new fence lines, and Ron cleared about another 3 acres to mow.

If you have to move to a smaller house, it's nice to have a better view.

We realized things had changed when we the original "fourteen days to flatten the curve" seemed to develop a life of its own and we were facing a winter of truly being shut in.  Neither of us does too well with being shut in.  Then the looming election presented new possibilities and risks for our life, and we decided we should sell our main home while the market was good and we could still see a tax benefit from doing that.  That began a very hectic couple of months with a quick sale, and a huge move.  You never realize just how settled in you are until you try to move everything you own.  With us, it wasn't so much about clothes, furniture, and housewares, but tools and equipment too.

Our move left us still with the prospect of a winter inside for two people who live mostly outside and who are easily bored.  So we found ourselves looking for new adventures to keep us occupied. 

So we ended up in Florida for the winter with a pool where I can swim outside every day,

with a drone to experiment with, and a new motorcycle to explore central Florida where we ended up.

So my enthusiasm to start blogging again was somewhat diminished when I discovered 737 comments on my blog - 99% of which were SPAM, about half in Chinese and Arabic.  Yikes!  I diligently reported every single one as SPAM and deleted about a hundred individually before I found I could do multiple at once.  Still, three hours later I am just finishing and wondering if it would be easier to just delete the entire blog and go see what I can do with the drone.