End of year closeout

Seems a little odd that today is Monday and that it is New Year's Eve day. That's the way mid-week major calendar locked holidays mess with my mind. I'm not back to work until Wednesday and from Friday through today I get mixed-up what day it actually is. So here we are on the last day of 2018.

Most recent, my side of the family Christmas get together was Saturday. A great turnout and a spirited Yankee Swap. We missed having Lindsey my niece's family, her two little ones had ailments to be tended to and Ali had a previously planned family activity.

I mentioned in a previous posted blog about some health maladies I was dealing with one of which turned out to just need time to heal and has done so. The other involved having an MRI to make a diagnoses, that came up clean though still needs a follow up though all is seemingly fine. Now I'm working my way through a normal cold.

The word on recent weather, "Cold". Note the capital C. Not the extreme cold that I'm sure will descend upon us at some point but a steady below freezing cold, sunny, cloudy and overnight with an occasional damp snowfall that freezes over to be a nuisance around the yard. For the most part it been good for the roads and driving abouts.

30th work anniversary that I had posted earlier. I had the opportunity to select an award gift from a catalog, went with a Nikon Coolpix B-500 DSLR camera. A upgrade from my Canon PowerShot that is a fine camera in it's class. Guess I'll have to step-up my photo shooting.

Became more tech enabled with more devices such as Amazon's Alexa Dot and Roku devices.

Sports - Unfortunately my Green Bay Packers had a very disappointing season. Only good thing to come of that is they fired the head coach which I had been hoping for several years they would do. On the other end of the equation the Boston Red Sox had a very successful baseball season by winning the World Series.

I celebrated both my 64th birthday and Carol and my 43rd wedding anniversary.

RV camping - Odd, it appears I didn't post any blog content from our camping forays, though I did post somethings to Facebook. Some good times camping though with a few snags along the way so I'll finish up this post with photos from those occasions.

Memorial Day Weekend, visiting Salem MA

Stoney Brook Campground - just to get away with the camper

Labor Day Weekend

Ship Harbor Trail

Wonderland Trail

Flying Mountain Trail

From around the campground region 

Camper cat

Megunticook Campground, Camden, ME

Not to make it a New Year's resolution I am intending pick up my posting pace maybe not to this month's level but more than the first 11 months of 2018.

Have a Happy New Year!