2019 Life Logs, Day 89: Lynne Heads Back to Nyack
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019
Weather: Sunny; High 62, Low 46 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Visits with good friends and family that live afar are so special. But they always feel too short. It was wonderful to have Lynne here, but she needed to get back to Nyack to continue the transformation of her life without Ed. She just returned from five weeks in New Zealand with her friends there. Lynne lived in New Zealand from the mid-1970’s to 1990, so many of her friends from her adult life are there. In addition to living there, she and Ed spent a great deal of time in New Zealand during the 17 years that they spent sailing around the world. So it is very much home to Lynne and she hopes to return there for a few months each year during North American winters and New Zealand summers. She will become a New Zealand snowbird. But now she needs to figure out the rest of her year. Her family lives in Michigan, so she is going to start there. It is time to pack up her belongings in New York and head to Michigan. So off she went and I got a text saying she got home just fine. Tomorrow she will begin the readying for the move to Michigan. It will be harder for us to see each other as Michigan is not just a four-hour drive, but we talked about doing some travel together. That will be exciting to plan and to do.
Before her departure, we had a great morning together. We went to visit with Heather, Jed, and boys as she hadn’t seen them since Mark’s memorial. Then we came home to have breakfast with Karen Baranowski as I wanted two of my good friends to meet each other. After Karen left, we walked my daily mile together, and then off Lynne went. It felt very lonely here, but I did my exercises, iced my knee, worked on that puzzle, and did some indoor gardening. I put the little plants I have been growing outside to harden them up a bit before transplanting and planned what I will plant next. Tomorrow Heather is planning to plant some things in her garden, so I will head over to see if I can be helpful. I also need to prune the raspberry plants. I should have done this during the winter, but somehow never got around to it. Tomorrow is the day. Rain is expected in the afternoon, so hopefully we’ll get an early morning start.
