Unplanned Staycation in October and November

 Covid put a monkey wrench in our plans to go to Hawaii with Kirin and Matt in November.  So many plans get changed for everyone these days.  So we must be flexible.  I can't say I was very accepting when we first realized we may not get to go to Hawaii - I haven't been there for 36 years and Scott has never been.  

For a time Hawaii was only accepting entry of people who had one of the 3 US approved vaccines - J & J, Phizer, or Moderna.  They would not accept my Astrazeneca even if I got a booster of one of the others, which I couldn't get because I had Astrazeneca vaccine.  So I cancelled our flights and gave in and we had an active and wonderful over 2 months at our Longmont area instead.

The time at home allowed me to do a great deal of research to make a plan for a new front landscape.  I've been wanting to do this project but didn't make the time until this October and November.  The photo is not our yard, but I hope ours looks like that when the work is done.  It took an incredible amount of time to formulate ideas and to hire a landscape company to do the work.  We start next April.  Yay!

We got to spend time with Scott's grandkids

We picked and processed more apples!  We were apple obsessed for sure.

We camped at Chatfield with Joe & Nancy and had some great bike rides!

You can't see both, but our campers are cousins - both e-Pro brand.

Joe & Nancy happened to be passing through on their way back to Wisconsin so we got to spend some time with them again!

I got to visit my former sister-in-law Lynn several times.  She lives at Brookdale Senior Living in Boulder and always has a happy attitude.

We took Brendan to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg on one of our visits.  Scott tried a mustache but finally shaved it and I was happy about it. 

I enjoyed the Longmont Halloween parade with Bill & Lorraine Eyl on a warm day.

We celebrated Terri's birthday in November inside a restaurant!  Me, Terri, Maureen, and Marianne.

It was a pleasure to be home and to see friends regularly, to get back into a running routine with Jen and with DGz on Sundays, to do some fix-it, and plan the landscape upgrade. 

Washer had a problem.  With help from Youtube, we fixed it.