Retail Therapy (Thurs., July 10)

We went to the city today:  no, not SF -- Capitola/Santa Cruz.  They got a Mall there, folks!  We bought a washer/dryer set at Best Buy; did a bit of obligatory Trader Joe's stock-up; had a lovely lunch courtesy of Julie, who joined us with Steffie at noon; and stopped on our way home at a fine SF market called Nob Hill, to get some provender to replenish our larder.  It was quite hot, and we were glad to get home to a cool shower and a rest on our shady deck at sunset.

I am feeling a loss of control of our household operations and finances; we really need to get wired up here and set up useable office space, soon.  

But we are also trying very hard not to push ourselves or let ourselves be pushed -- the six weeks or so when the heat wave was so intense in SB, and we were getting packed up and handling all the administration of moving from our long-term base, were really very wearing for both of us; I didn't feel like I was retired, until we got up here.