Post about Peru trip

Someone left a comment on a previous post about the lack of pictures or posts about our trip in
South America.  This trip was more stressful for me that I realized. My emotional state was a bit of a mess for about a week.  I think I am better now, but not completely.  Nothing I need to see a therapist about, but it is just taking time.  I will not go into details about what contributed to the stress at this time.

Then there was a lot of catch up to do around home:  A huge stack of mail, weeds taller than the plants in the garden, work to do for the two organizations where I have the position of treasurer.

Next let me tell you about the pictures that were taken on the 14 day trip.  There were 11 people on the tour, all taking pictures.  I was concerned that some of my pictures may not have been the best, so asked for copies of the pictures of the others.  One man in the group had his laptop along and everyone downloaded their pictures to it.  He brought them over a couple days ago and put them on my external hard drive where I have my pictures.  There were over 9,000.  He figured if I looked at each one for 3 seconds, used one second to click to the next, it would take me over 9 hours (without bathroom breaks)!!   So I have my work cut out for me.  We are leaving on another motorcycle trip on Wednesday, for 10 days, so this will be put on hold.  I really do have hopes of putting something together later.

Visit from Son-in-law

Our Son-in law has been visiting us for the last week.  During the day he does his work (which is looking at the computer monitor for eight hours at a time).  Other times he follows us around attending dinners with our various friends and groups (G's motorcycle buddies) and assists G with projects.  Two biggies this week were 1) the Audi was loaded on a trailer and taken to the scrap yard where, we received $350 for it and 2) getting G's favorite motorcycle running again.  He had a little mishap several months ago where it started on fire and he could never get it running again.  S-i-L made a suggestion that it be taken off the center stand when trying to start it, as there is some kind of switch there.  It worked.  They spent several hours getting all the parts back on and last night it passed the test drive.

Today the two of them are attending a motorcycle swap meet, and tomorrow will go to an antique car show.

Since he and RM live within driving distance (6-7 hrs) we will see them more often.  I am happy about that.