Road into Retirement: October 2014

Our last few weeks in Conroe will be spent working, packing, and spending time with Jake and Claire.

We have been in the apartment about 4 months, and although it is a quiet complex, whenever I walk outside and see all the cars, I know that there are hundreds of people all around us. Can't wait to be in the quiet solitude of Burnet.

So Minnie is finally sitting on my lap, rarely, but it has happened.

She has also finally started going outside on the patio

(or catio, since we have it screened so she can't get out.

Took the twins to the mall, I had to pick up some stuff.

Claire jumped into a car, Jake did too, but no pic.

But Jake really enjoyed his Chick Fila meal.

The highlight was the really high-speed hand dryers in the restroom!

Twins had their 5th BDay party.

They were at the apartment one afternoon and Jake found Bill's

Trade-a-Plane magazine. He enjoyed looking at the pictures.

We made a trip to Cedar Park to check on the house and spend some time

at Apache Pass, where Jeff was holding a fly-in for his RC airplane club.

William, of course, was the entertainment for us.

Sometimes they fly these planes very slowly, almost hanging motionless in the air.

Here Jeff and another flyer sort of dance their planes closely around each other.

Tricky and awesome.

Jake is in TaeKwanDo (?). After a lesson, the instructor wanted to take a group picture of kids

with trophies from a weekend event. She told the kids to get their trophies and medals and come back for the picture. I heard Jake say, "I don't have a trophy." Then he ran off into the other room, and came back a minute later with a long sword in a scabbard. He got his own trophy! And he was in the picture on the front row holding his trophy!