Mon, March 29, 2010 - Clear Lake, IA

Brian and Lin had an appointment with their tax preparer at 9:30 am. While they were seeing their accountant, Maureen finished our tax return and e-filed it from home. It was a lot less complicated this year! Brian and Lin returned a little after 11 am with lattes and muffins from the local coffee shop. After our snack, we took the dogs outside to run on this lovely spring day.



At 1:30 pm, we were saying goodbye to Brian, Lin and their dog just as an appraiser arrived to evaluate our townhouse for the buyer’s mortgage lender. We showed him around inside and then directed him to the garages. Afterwards, Gale went right after gathering and inventorying the clothes he was giving to Opportunity Village. At 4 pm, we took Lucy for a walk and headed west on North Shore Drive – her favorite place to run. We were back in the parking lot shortly after 5 pm and joined Gary & Marilyn Huffine, Charlotte Hanson and a new neighbor, Wayne, in a conversation. Wayne and his wife bought Ardith Smith’s townhouse and he invited us in to see where he was with the renovation work. They moved some walls and opened it up which should be very nice when it is completed.

The Huffines invited us over for a glass of wine and we enjoyed visiting with them and catching up on their lives. After an hour or so, Maureen was suddenly overcome with her allergies so we said our goodbyes and went home to put a pizza in the oven and watch a movie.