It is Sunday, March 15 and there are only 31 days left to file your taxes.  Just think of it as letting the government take more of your money than they already have.  Afterall, the senators haven’t had a raise in a while.  Today we remember the birthdays of Hadrian, Liberty Hyde Bailey and Mike Love.  On this day in 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first new world voyage, in 1820 Maine was admitted as the 23^rd state and in 1954 the “CBS Morning Show” premiered with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar.  In Honduras it is Thanksgiving Day, in Hungary it is National Day and in Maine it is Admission Day.

I do not have a lot to talk about this week.  People have been the same as usual, so even though they are nuts, there is nothing new.  We had gone out the other day and I was surprised at the number of guys I saw wearing shorts.  The temperature had gone up into the low 60’s for a couple days, so I guess that meant it was time to wear shorts.  I thought they looked a little ridiculous wearing shorts, gloves, and a hooded sweatshirt, but that’s just me.

Our house hunt continues.  We went to one house recently that looked great in the photos they had on-line.  The place even looked great when we pulled up in front of it.  When we walked in – disappointment!  It is amazing how misled you can be by photos depending on the angle used to take the picture.  The amount of work that needed to be done just made it a loser for us.

We did see a nice place in a 55+ community.  I am having a tough time adjusting to the idea of a 55+ house.  It makes me feel like we have gone to a retirement village and everyone there is old.  I know that I am old, but it just seems different, somehow.   We saw one place where the woman was very into Elvis, and I mean VERY!  She had pictures, statues and stamps depicting him.  I wonder if she has his albums.  I was tempted to look, but figured it was really none of my business.  I suppose she would probably think I was a little crazy if she saw how many watches I own, so I guess I should not be so quick to judge.  Everybody has their “thing.”

One of my concerns is that if we decide to jump on this first place that looks good, we eliminate any of the others that may come on the market in a month or so.  Of course there is always the possibility that we will wait for a better house and then this one will disappear and we will have nothing.  This is just so much fun.  The lovely Elaine is anxious because she is afraid we will not find anything.  I am anxious because I am concerned that we will “settle” rather than find our “ideal” house.  Oh well, the search goes on, so stay tuned.

I will go into one other thing that I constantly rail about and that is drivers.  The adventurous part of driving is being on the highway going 65 mph and wondering what the person in front of you is actually doing.  Is it their intention to change lanes, are they drifting because they have dozed, are they not paying attention because they are texting?  Who knows?  I have taken to looking at them when I drive by to see if they look as stupid as they drive.  What?  You’ve never been tempted to look and see if they are having a stroke or something?  

Anyway, as I said there isn’t much to talk about this week.  I will make it a point to get out more next week so that I can regale you with new and exciting things.

This week our fact tells us that if you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.  The only thing you can hope is that when it happens, the bird is not flying over your head.  As a side note, we were on the beach with friends one day and a bird dropped a small load on my leg.  One of the people said that it was supposed to be good luck.  Sure enough, a few minutes later, another bird dropped a load on my other leg.  If that is good luck, I do not want to see what bad luck would have been like.

Don’t forget to wish your friends in Honduras a Happy Thanksgiving!  See you next week.