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119.2 - seems like the Cape Cod scale and the one here in Florida are more or less in synch.

Uneventful trip back yesterday and it is so nice to be warm again. Really nice! Having the airport here 10 minutes away makes it all so easy. We were home by 3:30 and did a somewhat shortened Justice walk at 4:30. Even though it was easy, DH and I felt tired. Maybe because we did get up earlier than usual yesterday.

I realized when we got here that this feels like home now. I used to call my former Cape Cod place my home and this was my winter place, but now it is home.

This morning DH plays golf. I have water aerobics, a Justice walk, laundry, food shopping, and I don't know what. Tonight we are meeting old friends of DH for dinner. DH did his weekly weigh-in and lost another 2.6 pounds. It is getting noticeable in his face - one of his golf friends up north commented on it.

That's all the news from down south. Have a warming Wednesday!

When deceased DH was working we used to extend every year because DH was never ready to get his stuff together (self-employed) and the partner in his building who did them for us was an accountant so doing everyone else's last minute stuff. We would pay a bunch of money in April by estimating based on the prior year. Half the time we paid too much and the other half we ended up with a penalty for not paying enough. And we always almost forgot the later date to file so still scrambled at the last minute.

Absolutely use those sick days if you don't get $ for them when you leave. We had a combined bank of days off including sick time, so we did get equivalent funds when we left. In my last years I used most of mine every year (even though I was getting something like 8 weeks a year) so I didn't get a lot but the check was a nice little retirement gift.

I keep a feeder out all year. We have over-winterers! You?ll even see them feeding in the snow. Natural plants I think are always best, but not much is blooming yet here.

The irrigation lines are that 1/4" drip line. It's under the rock mulch, so he either digs it out, or gets it at the emitters and yanks it up out of the rock. Then swings it around like a lasso and chews it up! Such a jerk.

Use the sick days in place of all the days you came in sick earlier in your career! My bank is now really low, so I'm saving a couple in case I actually get sick between now and June 13.