Busy Day

We packed up this morning and headed out to check off some of the things on our to-do lists. At the Texas room we did some laundry, and Ken pounded in the citrus fertilizer spikes to encourage our grapefruit and orange trees to thrive. (The lemon tree is on its own: it's covered with blossoms, and we had way more lemons than we needed this year.)

We put the bike rack on the truck. As usual, this process took much longer because it's been so long since we moved the bikes. We dropped the bikes off at Bicycle World for repair. Originally we had only planned to drop my bike off. The seat post refuses to tighten, so it's impossible to raise the seat or straighten it or stabilize it at all. When we went to put Ken's bike on the rack, he realized that it had suffered damage to the derailleur when the wind blew it over.

Ken had an appointment with Dr. Hook, an ophthalmologist at Thurmond Eye Associates. He's been having really blurry vision in his right eye and some eye pain. The verdict is that his cataract has progressed and is responsible for the blurriness. When we return in the fall he has an appointment for evaluation for cataract surgery. The doc didn't see anything in the eye to account for pain. If it returns, he's suggesting screening for temporal arteritis.

We had a quick supper at Subway before attending Darryl's C-1 concept dance at TVA. It's down to six squares, but was still lots of fun. People are saying goodbye and heading north. Art and Lynne leave tomorrow morning for Manitoba. Gord and Barb will head the same way in another week. The Canadians are limited in how long they can stay in the states without losing some of their benefits, so they dutifully head north even before spring is really sprung.

I had fun showing Jan and Steve how the Capital One 360 app works. We've enjoyed having an online only bank that works as well as Capital One 360 works and that provides such great customer service.  We were happy to refer friends. Now if interest rates will just recover a bit.....

This evening we finished watching the second episode of Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson. We are really enjoying the program. The presentation of the evolution of eyes was really good, except that it left out the fact that eyes have evolved multiple times, which emphasizes the survival and reproductive advantages of a visual system for many different types of organisms.