We are spending a chunk of change today.
Every couple of years we have a pruning company come in to clean up and trim our Arbor Vitae. Today is that day.
It's one of the reasons we were out earlier this week raking up all the crap under the shrubbery.
I didn't manage to get a before picture, but we are happy with the after.
We got a start on some yard clean up today.
Susan did the bulk of the work. My stamina is so crappy now that I really don’t even have the energy to do sustained raking. So I use the leaf blower.
I also got a fire going in the fire pit and burned up a bunch of sticks we collected from the yard.
It’s the second day of really nice weather. It got into the 70’s yesterday for the first time in 2026. It’s a bit cooler today but not so much that we couldn’t work in the yard or go on a bike ride.
So that’s the early Spring update.
One of my favorite Retirement Activities is to go to lunch with people. For the most part, those people are “guys”, but I don’t feel limited by that.
On Tuesday, Susan and I went to lunch at Jimmy John’s in Lincoln Heights for our 31st lunch. It’s a group of about 10-12 folks who get together on any month with 31 days. We know each other from church. I would not classify this lunch as ‘the guys”.
I have a regular weekly lunch date, loosely scheduled around Thursday, where I go to lunch with Rob (who I’ve known since kindergarten) and Mark (who I’ve known for about 45 years). The routine is we go somewhere to get a sandwich and take it to the Hub Tervan, where we enjoy our sandwiches with relatively cheap beer.
Today I went to lunch with Geoff and Mike. The routine with these guys is we go to different places and check out their food.
The destination was the Logan Tavern (ya see, I known how to spell it right) and we enjoyed their footlong hotdogs. Ten bucks! I had the chili dog which was quite a meal.
I was hoping to ride my bike to the lunch, but the day was quite rainy. The weather service recorded .17 inches fell today. And I’m too much of a pussy to ride wet.
