Hi Chuck and everyone,
For the Fourth, my son and his wife have invited the family to a mountain town near here to share a big suite. Let's see. It will be 7 people in my daughter's family, 3 in my son's family, and me. A nice crowd! (True to form, my ex has bowed out). Son and wife are competing in a bicycle race, so I'm looking forward to spending time with my 3-month-old granddaughter.
I had a great trip to SW Colorado. When I got home, though, there was a notification on my front door that I have to remove a large pile of chips by July 3. I was planning to use half this pile on my landscape, and make the other half available to neighbors who had expressed interest in having some. Almost all those neighbors have "ghosted" me though. I could absorb all of the chips onto my yard but I've been working on it for 3 days and the pile has barely grown smaller.