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New Views
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Wildlife below the balcony
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First Christmas in our new home |
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In this section we will try to keep you up-to-date with what's happening with timely comments and links to other areas of the Web page.
What a lot has changed since the last update! We have successfully moved from Arizona to Pennsylvania and are settled into our CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community) - Shannondell at Valley Forge. It is a great place to live. If anything, the food is too good and there is a lot of it. The desserts are especially yummy. Our waistlines are giving evidence of that fact!
We have also taken two Holland America (HAL) cruises: Alaska Arctic Circle Solstice (June-July) and the Ultimate Mediterranean & Atlantic Passage (October-November). In February, we will head for San Diego to do HAL's Hawaii, Tahiti, & the Marquesas. Since we are now escaping real winter, we are looking forward to that.
Trips on the Web page - lots still in process:
Israel is finished!
Dreamcatcher
We named our Estes Park house and property "Dreamcatcher", not so much because of the Indian legend explained below, as because the house and its location represented a "dream come true" for our retirement. Our move to Arizona represented a dream of a slightly different sort, but just as appropriate, so we called it our Green Valley Dreamcatcher. Now, we have made what we hope will be our final move and will just call it just Dreamcatcher. We hope the Dream Catchers in our home will catch and keep the good dreams.
Indian Dream Catcher Legend
The Plains Indians believe Dream Catchers catch all dreams, good and bad. Good dreams, knowing the way, travel through the hole in the center, rest on the feather like a dew drop, and evaporate to the Great Spirit in the morning sun. Bad dreams, not knowing the way, get entangled in the web. The prayer beads on the Dream Catcher trap all the bad dreams that are left on the web. The prayer beads then burn them up.
