Apart from the several excursions noted, as well as holidays and birthdays, and theatrical performances, our nearly ten months in Cary were fairly uneventful. Most days we sorted through our stuff, looking especially for prospective eBay offerings, looking for things to toss, to give to charity, to keep. Vicki sold more than $6000 of stuff on eBay or locally, several of the sales really surprising us...items we thought were sort of idiosyncratically ours but turned out to be in some serious demand. Despite having no specific goals, when it came time to pack up and vacate, were were disappointed that there was still so much stuff left. I never really got to the several boxes of files and mementos from my work life. These minutiae are the hardest to deal with. Next time. Oh, in addition to the death-cleaning bit, we also did quite a bit of walking, probably averaging 12k steps a day. And for the first time in some years, we watched some TV. Then sold the TV.
The pix below and in the next post will have to represent the rest of our time in Cary. I may add to them or edit further as time permits. But I'm already two weeks behind in my coverage of Paris!
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| Vicki's sister Marie came to visit us in late January |
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| Out walking |
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Vicki broke a bone in her right hand in January; dealing with it, treatment, and recovery, all had a bearing on our work...I tried to convince her it was a great opportunity to become ambidextrous, but she didn't buy it |
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| Daughter Rebecca's February birthday...one of the big ones |
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An item we sold that we will (hopefully) not miss...our bed-bug oven (for treating clothes, etc., killing bed bugs and their eggs) |
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My aspiration to become a Wagner scholar now officially dismissed;
and the scores sold to someone in Texas (Das Barbecu?) |
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Another item sold, with mixed feelings...my ultra light-weight backpack, which got us around five continents... |
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A disagreement among the doctors: in downtown Durham a bus
from Chapel Hill chides Duke Health for using animals in medical
teaching; there is no end to the hard-court rivalry |
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Another item not to be missed: our grizzly-proof food sack, for back-packing |
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| Spring finally arriving |
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In Cary's downtown park, another edition of the junior entrepreneur fair |
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P has won 'best in show' at several of these fairs around the Triangle; this time her jewelry-making skills earned her a ton of money |
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| At our birthdays dinner at the Fairview in Durham |
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| Nice finish |
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| Vicki's birthday brunch |
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| And three-generation tea party |
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Surviving picture of Easter brunch at the Peck and Plume in downtown Cary |
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| The carb table |
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Of great interest: wild wisteria in Cary, pockets of it here and there, vining to the tops of the pine trees; the bloom lasts a week or so, then, all gone... |
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One of the rescue bikes I acquired and fixed up in Cary; now in more expert hands; the female version is now Penelope's bike |
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New home: now a merely 10x15 storage unit, temperature and humidity controlled |
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| Some gorgeous sunsets in Cary, if you don't mind an obstructed view |
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One of P's 13th birthday gifts from us was a second day at Disney Paris--Vicki and P are en route from Les Halles as I write... |
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Part of the celebration...blooming of a Chinese flowering |
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The cicadas were with us from late April...not as bad as some other places, though still creepy and icky; and noisy |
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En route to her first prom
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Another of P's extracurricular activities were more or less
weekly sessions at our apartment acquiring an assortment of
culinary and textile skills...here working on the dress she
made herself (pix later) |
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Just before we left for Paris, we got to see P in her theater arts spring production of Frozen |
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| Very talented young woman! |
