2018

There is still one milestone to go - Honey and I celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary the day after tomorrow - but for all intents and purposes, 2018 is pretty well in the books. 

Looking back on the year, there were some very positive happenings and some that were very painful.  It probably balances out somewhere in the middle - for us, 2018 was probably a wash.

On the plus side - 

• Honey had successful cataract surgery last spring, and can see without glasses for the first time in over 60 years.
• We got a back porch and a pergola built, and we love it.
• I installed a shooting berm out by the woods, and really like that, too.
• We both made it through another year without any significant health issues.

Minuses -

• The Graffs, the best neighbors anyone could ever hope to have, moved to Ohio.
• All of the St Augustine grass we bought when we got the pergola is dead.  We followed the best advice we could find to the letter, and it's still as dead as if we'd sprayed it with Roundup.  
• We lost our black-and-tan dachshund, Tinker, on December third.

Here's hoping that your 2018 was at least as good, and that 2019 is better!