I am finally getting caught up. The first week we were home (mid September), I just collapsed. I was still sick from the sinus cold from hell, and it kept me exhausted. It took 5 days before we got the motorhome half-way cleaned up and winterized. While I napped and relaxed at home, Kevin went through every bay and cleaned and sorted them. Lots and lots of stuff came home. Some ended up on the garage shelves and some just ended up in the trash. I bet we are hundreds of pounds lighter! That is good because he is now packing up our “normal” stuff we didn’t take with us this summer like the 3D printer and the telescope.
Some things are great being back. For example, I am back in church choir! it is so lovely to sing with others again. It had been almost 3 years since we left for Arizona in January 2020. Choir stopped during the pandemic, and it just started again in September. We no longer sing every week since we only have one service split between praise band music and traditional choir music, but it is better than nothing. A lot of the regulars at church haven’t been coming. Some are still worshipping online, and sadly a number of the older folks died. That included people in the choir too. I have hopes a few more will start showing up for choir, but it is easy to lose habits when they are paused for 2 years.
We have finally bought a UTV, a skinny 50” wide 2020 Polaris RZR Trail model. Love it! It will fit in the back of a pickup eventually, but we bought a trailer for it now. Of course it needs all kinds of fun and practical stuff that Kevin is buying including a new roof/door combination, full front windshield, rear view and side mirrors, and turn signals. We intend on using it a lot in Arizona this winter, and they allow UTVs to drive on the street if equipped properly. It will be a pain getting it there this year because we have to tow the UTV and trailer with the MH while Kevin drives the Jeep, but then we will leave it in AZ until some time in June when we will pick it up and spend time in Utah.
Kevin worked really hard to get the garage ready for 3 vehicles again, but there is now room for the Jeep, the RAV4, and the RZR on its trailer. We hope to go for our first real ride in it on Saturday when there is a charity group ride in NE Iowa. We are hoping for decent weather and beautiful fall colors.
Coming back in the fall is always a busy time for us because we schedule all our yearly doctor visits now. Kevin has a big one – his knee replacement is scheduled for 9 November. Since I am a poll worker on 8 November until late, we will have a long day. The plan is to be healthy enough to head to Arizona soon after Christmas. Of course there will be a number of appointments for imaging and checkups in addition, but we will manage those. I finally got the colonoscopy I tried to have in April of 2020 (yeah, we know what happened then!) then in April this year (cancelled because I came down with COVID). Still have to schedule a mammogram, but my routine physical is scheduled for December.
Hopefully the next post will be full of lovely foliage pictures from the UTV ride.