Prayers for Tom

 Later today we are driving to Abington for Tom's surgery. They are removing the melanoma from his eyelid. I will drive us home and then we are back in the area tomorrow for his eyelid reconstruction. I pray that all goes well. I love him so much!! <3

We ate at a diner in Mt. Holly the other day - Southside or something like that. It was good.

We've also been out to the movies five times and dancing at the Fairgrounds with Jeremy.

Craig and Donna have gotten inside dancing up and running but we haven't gone yet because of Tom's upcoming procedures...just to stay safe. We are looking forward to getting to dance on Prospectors new floor. 

Back to the Future

 Tom and I are back into movie mode and feeling comfortable about being in the theater(s) ....not the least reason being we are the only ones in the audience! We've seen four so far this week.

We also saw Back to the Future on a big screen in Smithville Park in drive in style from the comfort of our car. 

Other outside activities include dancing in the Fairgrounds pavilion  in addition to the previously described Prospectors parking lot popups. 

Today my Eastampton Book Club group met outside the Rec Building for our discussion after a year's worth of zooms.

Speaking of zoom, Sunday we had fun playing with Nathan, the Mays, and Jennifer. 

Nathan has graduated!

 

With Tom's upcoming surgeries in mind, we are exercising caution and not going inside with large groups, despite the post vaccination assurances

A Roof and a Visit

The roof replacement was postponed two days due to weather but they came at 7 a.m. the morning of and after hours and hours of banging and scraping and a deluge of falling old tiles, it was over and our new roof was in place (and so was the new roof on the shed....) Yay.

Before all of that happened, we had the pleasure of a visit with Sue and Patrick. We met them at Gaetano's in Willingboro for lunch as they headed to Philadelphia on their first leg of the journey home- road tripping through W.Va, KY...AR...OK and flying the rest of the way home to CA.

A visit to Antarctica and other April 2021 pandemic activities

 I didn't go to Antarctica but this presentation by fellow DKG member (Patti Rahn of Omicron) is so fascinating. It was a workshop tied to our recent Spring Convention. I hope sharing it here is okay- it was on You Tube, but maybe that is just a temporary platform. 

A Visit to Antarctica

This post vaccine month hasn't been too different from the last year of pandemic stay homedness, but we managed to keep busy.

Let's see....

Attended Cindy Hady's online class with guest teacher Rona Kaye (and opened a paypal account just for her!)

I was delighted to attend a virtual tour of The Barnes Collection

(thanks to Rutgers Alumni and Jane Murphy telling me about it).

Tom and I went for a walk on this beautiful 80 degree late April day.

Then there was the fun of Jennifer's bingo cards for watching the Academy Awards with. (Surprise! Chadwick didn't win which led to a very anti-climatic ending to the show.)

This year's TCNJ Alumni weekend had some virtual events I was interested in: trivia and bingo. I didn't win, but it was fun, even though most of the alumni were really young!

The virtual NJREA Spring general membership meeting went smoothly. (I hope our BCREA one is too!)

The SHIP Spring training was also virtual.

I have been to  many of their online trainings this season.

After the cancellation of the 2020 DKG convention, they decided to hold this year's virtually. It was so well planned and executed!

The workshops were available separately. (See the Antarctica link above).

It was a two day event.

We have been dancing outside Prospectors. They hope to get permission for inside dancing asap

Upcoming: We just heard the roofers are coming to do the job on Tuesday at 7 a.m. Whoo hoo! (That means we are okay with the Tiver soft wash on the scheduled May 11)

Tom's eye surgery May 24, reconstruction May 25, hip replacement June 30

Potential visit with Sue and Patrick May 3 (in Philadelphia for dinner not here?)

NJEA Communications workshop

Working the outdoor Friends of the Library book sale

Roof and Eye

The Roof Next Door....

Have I mentioned that we are back in the market for a new roof? We called in three companies for estimates and then sat around. I got a name from our hair person, then bumped into a neighbor with a company, and then saw the neighbors getting theirs done yesterday and called them.

Wish us luck! 

After driving to Jenkintown to meet with the surgeon doing Tom's upcoming eye surgery, we stopped at the Abington Boston Market for our 2nd post vaccine indoor dining event.

We also stopped on our way home for Dunkin Donuts and noticed how much smaller they are these days! 

Looking back, looking ahead

 I found fraudulant activity on our Amazon Prime Store Card. :-(

Jenn played with Anayah in the park on her vacation:

In looking for photos from Jeff and Alex's wedding, I came upon old photos of me I like. 

This April would have been Jeff and Alex's 25th wedding anniversary. :-(

We are going to zoom with Alex and Nathan on Sunday.

Tom and I are both finished with vaccines for Covid, but are still shaky on stopping our safe at home practices. 

Are we driving to Florida for our April 30-May 7 reservations in Ft. Lauderdale? Unclear at this time.

We are possibly moving along with the new roof prospects though. (fingers crossed).

I said, Happy Easter

I always loved this Easter card idea.

I said, HAPPY EASTER! right? <3

So it's April already. Tom and I are all vaccinated up, but still the virus is out there. I hope we get to see Sue and Patrick on their upcoming Zoe trip, but sadly we had to nix getting first crack at them after the plane ride east. We are also reconsidering the drive to Ft. Lauderdale for the first week of May (see skyrocketing cases post Spring Break)

Tax season (well, the tradtional kind) is nearing the end. I am glad I was able to get at least a few returns done so Idon't lose my spot. I really missed seeing a lot of my regulars.:-(

It looks like Samantha Johnson and the kids are in NYC. Cool. I saw facebook photos of Kendell and Junie. So cute. Poor Ross is home, though. I'll bet Millie and Harry are glad to see them all!

Tom isn't feeling well. :-(   I hope it wasn't from the dancing/sitting in the cold yesterday at Prospectors parking lot. It was our second time and so much fun!