SAID THE CAT: Stuff!!!

My pony Subaru filled with the remainder of my downsized belongings, my cat Toby, and nine more boxes that came on Greyhound buses were the total of my belongings nearly six years ago when we traveled eastward to Pennsylvania. Now look...

Panorama this morning of my Stuff in Marge's living room which has become the staging area for the move to Dock this coming week. This evening, there is more.

Have I been saying "upsizing"??? Well, this is what happens when you upsize. Pat lugged boxes and bags, trotted up and down these three floors right along with me...

My iPhone.

...and Marge got in on the endeavor, too. And we're three "old ladies". Ha! There is plenty left in these seventy-somethings. It ain't over till it's over, Y'all. All three of us will pack our ponies up and Wendy, John, Aidan, and Keoni will jump in, too, with Wendy's Cadillac of trucks.

It is interesting that those six years ago Wendy's neighbor and our good friend Lydie, who helped me get my stuff packed and loaded in Tucson, just yesterday had a window of time in Maryland during a trip she's on so that she and Wendy could meet for a quick visit...

Hi, Lydie and Wendy.
What a treat to see this that Wendy sent me.

Wendy and John last weekend roasted lamb for throngs of people. It's a good thing the big yard next to the driveway was dried out enough from the rains so the 15 cars parked there didn't get stuck in the mud.

Game time.

Carving time.

And, there was another graduation. This time in Missouri...

Jackie, Della, Harper, Chad.
Congratulations, Harper! Well done.

Flowers are everywhere. Several days have been sunny, or mostly so. Aidan and I got another walk in and this time I didn't get chewed up by oak mites because I sprayed myself with repellent. It is deer tick season, too, and we know deer come along the path around the farm to get to the pond water. We find places they slept or laid low while chewing their cud. We approach the pond with a light tread and are rewarded with a couple of bullfrog croaks. So, it's not just the little high-pitched frogs we've been seeing up until now!

Aidan talks about school and describes the duresses of the Fitness classes he's taking this semester--we're talking extreme fitness. My 62 flights of stairs would be a warmup for him. He muses about the possibilities of his coming summer break. He is good company and his ways are gentlemanly.

Right after helping me move Keoni will be flying away again. I'll miss him but look forward to his return when he'll do another concert at the church that he and buddies are cooking up for the end of June. Aidan will be away in Michigan by then.

In Utah, great-grandson Dimetrios is improving a lot now, coughing and breathing better as he recovers from pneumonia. He's still in ICU and likely will have his 15th birthday there tomorrow, too. Get well, Dimetrios! We all love you.

Happy Update: Just got word Dimetrios went home today with oxygen, but Home! Yay! Hope your birthday is very, very special, Great-Grandson!

It's always a pleasure seeing the outdoors changing with the different times of the year.