Spring Bee Hiving Moon
We have landed at Mahoney State Park about 10 miles outside Omaha. This is a favorite place of mine to stay since it’s cheap, $60, has a restaurant and the rooms come with balconies overlooking the Platte River.
The drive was uneventful, which is good. We drove from dry to wet, then wet to dry and back again. That’s the cool, humid east. Soon we’ll be in the arid west where any rain is a blessing. Fortunately, the Rockies had a great snow pack this year, so problems for some states will diminish. But not vanish. The drought in the southwest is brutal and continuing.
Kate drove the whole way. It helps her back. She got out and was not in too much pain.
I’m writing this entry on my new Lenovo laptop, the first time in 8 or 9 years that I have not used my netbook. It ran windows XP and since Microsoft shut down securities releases for XP this month I decided to get a more up to date laptop. This one runs Windows 8.1. I’m not a touch screen guy but we’re living in a touch screen world now. Fortunately, for those of us retro folk who still use mouse and keyboard, it’s possible to revert to the former connection methods.
I had no trouble getting the wifi connection here and, as I usually do, I have my own keyboard and mouse with me. That makes typing so much easier.
