Catch up post since retiring--Part 2

 After the two-week long motorcycle trip to LA I worked on the house and yard in Council Bluffs, Iowa, getting ready for 80th birthday party for Jerry's mom, Ruth. 

Late in July we went to our vacation home in Grand Junction, CO to see IF we could fix it and possibly move there permanently.  Turns out it was too costly to repair so on a whim we went house-hunting and found a house we liked.  Thus this purchase pushed up our move date.  We went home and the rest of the year (August through November) was spent getting rid of stuff at our IA house (we were moving into a house with less than half the square footage), going to Grand Junction (GJT) to get the new house ready for us to move in (paint, new carpet) and get the old house in IA ready for sale.  The IA house went up for sale just before Thanksgiving and we moved completely out to CO on December 28th, 2021.  

New house in Grand Junction, CO

During the same time frame I had the opportunity to ride my motorcycle to Tat Days hosted by Tatting Corner in Indiana.  Lisa let me have a table to 'Decorate Your Own Enameled Tatting Shuttle' and once again the results of everyone's creativity was outstanding.  I prepped and brought enameled shuttles with a plain color and then presented various ways to decorate ones's own shuttle.  Then I fired the shuttles to completed perfection.

I also had the opportunity to go to New York City (Manhatten) to hang out with an old college friend from Germany who was living there (but immenently going back to Germany) for a long weekend.  We walked all over and had a blast.

Adeline and Charlie in Central Park

Breakfasting on the roof of Adeline's apartment building in Manhatten.  It had quite a view including the Hudson River.

  

These are just some of the highlights of the last half of 2021 for me.  It was quite a year:

• Retiring from my professional, full-time job of being an Electron Microscopy Technologist June 1st, 2021.
• Motorcycle trip to Louisiana--first two weeks of June
• Motorcycle trip to Indiana to Tat Days-June
• Trip to Grand Junction, CO---bought a house
• September--trip to NYC
• Sold Iowa house and moved to GJT, CO Decemeber 28
• Not to mention the numerous trips to/from IA/CO to renovate both the new and old house.