Alone tonight, I write a blog.  Anne and I successfully completed some 134 miles on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia finishing up last Saturday.  The walk went well starting out warm and ending up chilly.  The trees in the valleys had greened up, but those on the ridges remained in gray dormancy.  The wildflowers were putting on a show everywhere.  Trilliums and star chickweed were especially abundant. 

We met about a dozen early through-hikers who had started in Georgia before the end of winter.  We will cruise south to Virginia again on Tuesday to walk another ninety miles.  On this hike we expect to see more birds.  The great spring migration is underway.

Home again we work with my mother to sell the house and transfer joint assets to her name.  A slow process, but it comes along. 

We returned home so that Anne could join a quilting retreat in Pennsylvania.  She has abandoned me for a few days.  Our feet needed the rest in any case.  I’d like to say I am taking the opportunity to do nothing, but in fact am working through a list of chores.  Today I made a frame on which to mount a new flat panel television in the motorhome.  With prices down, we bought to reduce the weight in the rig.  We had to wrestle out the old cathode ray tube television.  It went to auction with my mother’s excess property from the house.

I’m also making final preparations for the hike next week and making final arrangements for our RV cruise of Michigan that is scheduled for late May through early June.  Looking for birds there.  After that we return here for a couple of weeks before going to Cherokee where Anne will work for six weeks.  Alex has made arrangements to come visit while we are there.  He enjoys both the climbs and whitewater paddling.

Our schedule is full, but we are having fun with all of it.