(originally written 12/28/11)

The house is finally finished! Every room is painted, arranged, cleaned, and staged. Ellen celebrated by throwing away all her paint supplies. We are on our maiden retirement voyage.

We are having a quiet evening in the motor home at Airport Park in Waco. I just got trounced at Boggle and we are watching a little TV. Vonage has bollixed call forwarding again and Ellen is talking with her sister who thinks she called the house. The weather is beautiful and we had a lovely tour of downtown Waco this afternoon.

Tomorrow we are headed to Fort Parker State Park for the annual North Texas Camping Association New Year campout. We have great gifts for the gift exchange. In addition, we have lots of liquor and kitchen stuff to give away. There will probably be more to give away before we are done.

Ellen has a couple of more days of work and we are headed to Connecticut and Massachusetts for a week.