AT HOME IN LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE

We are adjusting to the reality that we now have only one home. No more packing up for the summer, using different doctors, grocery stores and hairdressers. We plan on being here for A long time. While there is so much to do we realize it will be there tomorrow and the day after that. We don’t have to do everything at once. We can pace ourselves. This was brought home this past weekend when we went to the boat to check on it. The packing and unpacking were a vivid reminder. Thank heavens we had my great-grandson (can you imagine?) who did all the physical work for us.
We have attended classes on the Kindle, the Nook and Excel. We finally decided to quit struggling to get my walker in our Saturn and bought a 2011 Hyundai Elantra Touring car. The Saturn was a wonderful car but took a beating being towed for seven years behind the RV. Zoe’s son bought the Saturn and is thrilled with it. He also bought one of our Kindles for his wife and we then bought the Nook. I love the Nook because it is backlit and I can read it in bed without bothering Zoe at night. Also we can download books free from the library. So we have one Kindle and one Nook. The Kindle is better with the internet.
I am still attending the oil painting class three hours a week and loving it. Of course I wanted to jump right in and paint something but this teacher insists on getting the basics first which is exactly what I need. After the preliminaries, I will finally start on my painting this week (a French café, of course) and am excited about that. Zoe has volunteered to teach a five-week computer class and is looking forward to that.
We are going up to the houseboat this next weekend to check on it and do any cleaning that might need to be done. We are hoping to have more action on selling it now as the weather is better. The same applies to the RV. Our friends, Jan and Sally will come down from Sacramento and have lunch on the boat with us. My great-grandson, Shaun, will also stay with us for three days until his apartment is available. He will be attending school in Sacramento. It will be fun to spend some time with him.
It seems like we get more technical all the time. We now know our way around the Kindle and the Nook and have learned that we can get Google on them, even when we are in Europe in September. We are enjoying the ease of Netflix streaming of free movies on our TV. Zoe’s daughter is in Mexico for a couple of months and they communicate face-to-face with Skype on the computer for no cost. Sometimes it’s almost overwhelming.