This last week was mellow, but family-focused. On Monday, we drove down to Canton, to Aunt Mary’s place. We got take-out from Chipotle (Aunt Mary got a salad from Wendy’s), and we went back to the house to eat and to do our classic game-show watching: we played along with Wheel of Fortune and then Jeopardy!

On Thursday, Mer and I drove up to Cleveland, to the airport, to pick up Mer’s parents, Dale and Carlene. They were moving back to Ohio, which made me and Mer pretty happy. Their possessions were en route and would not get to Cuyahoga Falls until Friday, so we all drove back to our place for the evening. It was a later flight (8:00 pm), so Dale and I went to bed fairly directly, while Mer and Carlene chatted for awhile.

On Friday, Mer and Dale and Carlene went over to Dale and Carlene’s new home – a two-bedroom apartment in a nearby retirement village. The furniture was being professionally moved, so the movers did pretty much all of the heavy lifting. They got the heavy things into place, and took a bunch of boxes over to a storage unit until such a time as Dale and Carlene are ready for more boxes to unpack.

I ran over with Mer after work to see how things were shaping up. The place has real potential, although it was full of boxes. We brought over our older LCD TV, and I set it up on the existing cable line. The picture came in pretty well. The management of the apartment complex had left a cake for Dale and Carlene, so we all had a piece of that. I know it cannot be easy for Dale and Carlene to leave their home of the last fifteen-plus years in Florida, but it is my hope that having family and old friends in the area will help the transition. Mer and I are pleased to be able to “drop by” when we want to; it remains to be seen if Dale and Carlene see that as an advantage or not.