Scattered Thoughts . . .

Since I have so many photos of our time at the Montshire Museum of Science, I decided it would be best to break this topic into two parts.  First, let's talk about outdoors at the museum and share a few of those photos. We accessed the outdoor part of this science museum by way of one of the upper floors of the museum from quite a dizzying height! (I used to scale buildings and dizzying rock faces when my health was better but, since procuring Systemic Mastocytosis, I now find myself dizzy when just standing on my own two feet... and a step stool might as well be a tower. I have to say that the top floor balcony at the museum made me a little queasy!) Exiting the museum from the second floor brought us out onto a deck and wood bridge. This long wooden bridge crosses over the driveway to the museum so we had already seen this bridge from our car when we were arriving at the museum. It is an impressive structure. It is hard to see here because it is such a long distance bu

We had a very nice day the other day... sunny and in the low 80's... but I still wasn't feeling well enough to get anything accomplished on the house. It was a perfect day for mowing the lawn and getting some landscaping chores accomplished but I was not well enough for that either. Sheila and I briefly discussed my overall health just this morning. I was telling her how I am feeling a bit like a prisoner in my own home after having such a long bout with consistently poor health. Since returning from the lake three months ago, the only times I have wandered away from our tiny home have been to pick up dinner at the grocery store in town, our trek to Shelburne Farms with the kids last weekend, and a couple of visits to Arvad's for a meal when I was feeling too miserable to even prepare a meal. This has left me feeling a bit anxious, bored and in need of a change in scenery.  We both agreed that we are due for a change in scenery. The weather is finally cooling down so my