A(nother) Relaxing Day

Usual wake up conditions, but it is getting warmer during the day. We got up to 29°C this afternoon.

After breakfast Lyn headed out to do the laundry and I decided to start working on the 3D printer. The first order of business is to paint all the components that make up the framework. I got the first part done, then Lyn returned from the laundry, and I decided it wasn’t a good idea to spray paint while the laundry was hanging out to dry! I retired to do some programming. Later I just hung around outside doing some Sudoku as it was getting pretty warm in the trailer.

After lunch we headed out to the convention centre in town where there was a presentation by the Canadian Snowbirds Association. This is a group that provide support and information for Canadians spending winter months in the US. One of their key pieces of work at the moment is to persuade the US to allow retired Canadians to spend longer in the US than current rules allow, i.e. 182 days. They also have customised medical insurance and currency exchange programmes. One of the things that we have learnt through them is to fill out some IRS forms that will exempt us from being treated as US citizens for tax purposes…. worth doing if you are in the US for more than 30 days a year.

Once the information session was complete there was some entertainment provided by comedian Jimmy Flynn and singer John McDermott.

Back at the resort we just lounged around again, doing nothing in particular. Again the BBQ was brought into use for dinner, it gets used about 5 times a week. Talking, indirectly, of food I am having problems with my weight….. it continues to fall. I’m down 45lbs from the start, and Lyn is down 50lbs and still slowly dropping. I’ve started to eat some snacks, and as I don’t feel particularly hungry I’ll plod along as is and at some time an equilibrium should be reached.

It has got very quiet on the comments from readers…. is there any one out there, besides Michelle?