We will be traveling to Lewisville this coming weekend, visiting family and taking care of some pre-moving business. Though our move isn’t for several weeks yet, we’ll be traveling a lot in June, and are trying to take care of some details ahead of time. On Saturday, we will be signing our lease, and taking some measurements, making sure everything we bring will actually fit into our apartment!
We will be staying with daughter Jen and husband Peter, and our grandkids, Ari and Will. Their house is centrally located in Lewisville, so our stops will be easy to get to. As you might imagine, medical care is a big deal for us, and we’ll be carrying referrals from Maurice, our Physician Assistant extraordinaire. We hope to connect with a clinic in Denton, just up the road from Lewisville.
One of the most difficult parts of traveling is the medication each of us take. I take a number of different meds each day, along with a number of vitamins. Since I take them at three different times during the day, it requires some degree of organization. Memory is becoming a major issue for me these days, and I have to be really careful in keeping track of things. I’ve already had some unpleasant experiences taking my medication, but I’m pretty well organized now. It does take me some practice!
One of our priorities is finding another Episcopal Church to attend, and fortunately there are several of them in Lewisville. We will be visiting one of them this Sunday, the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation. We are looking forward to finding a new church family! It’ll be a challenge, though, to find one as welcoming as St. Nicholas, Midland!
Having no yard at the apartment, our dogs will soon be getting introduced into the fine art of going for walks outside. Paco is pretty good with it, but Shelly and BB are rather poor students. We hope to cure them of their bad habits before we actually move to Lewisville! Rumor is, the Apartment Complex supplies doggy treats to all the apartment critters; I’m sure our dogs will quickly learn where such things might be available to them!
Cookie and I want to thank you for your prayers and best wishes. It’s getting a bit harder now to write these blogs. I’ve always been able to write them in my head, and then put them down on paper, the same way that I used to write my sermons. That is changing now, but I plan to keep on writing as long as I am able.
Blessings,
Fr Dave
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