I really haven't fallen off the face of the earth, honest. I've just
been meeting myself coming for the last several months. Around
Thanksgiving or so, Mike and I decided that we wanted to sell our house
and buy something on at least an acre and get away from the Home Owners
Association that governs our community and tells us what we can and
can't do with our property.  We found a house in March and closed on it
in April, but leased it back to the woman we bought it from, so that
she could keep her kids in school until mid-June.  Worked for us
because we didn't want to put this house on the market until mid-May.
Real Estate in Phoenix has gone completely nuts and particularly in the
area of Phoenix in which we live.  Houses are selling in 24-48 hours.
At any rate, ours goes into multiple listing on Tuesday evening,
although after reading Ducky's post, I think I'd rather not move if we
have to go through that.  I'm scared to death that some idiot will
bring their kids over here to preview the house and leave a kid alone
in the back yard with the pool.  Because we have no children under the
age of six living here, we are exempt from having to put in a pool
fence.  I will be so glad when all of this is over with.  As much of a
drag as moving is, the new house is all on one floor and I won't miss
the stairs a bit.

In the meantime, I had a mammogram which showed something abnormal and
had a biopsy done a week ago.  We just got the path report and it is
clear, that G-d!  Like we needed one more thing?

Sir Arthur continues to govern my life of course, but hopefully after
this move I can quit living with lidoderm patches and Kenalog shots in
my hips every 3 months.

Hope everyone is well and healthy and I'll pop in when I can for the
next couple of months until things settle down a bit.

Anne