January: The weather was a mite cool. Dave did donuts on his lawn mower. We bought a Roomba.
February: The lake was firm all month, but I never went out to look at it. Or much of anyplace else.
March: I bought an old-lady bicycle, also known as a "flatfoot" or a "crank forward". Dave borrowed it.
We replaced the living-room sofa with a futon. The washing machine died and I bought a Whirlpool.
Dave and Jeanie removed Evelyn's cedar chest from our parlor. I took the lock off my hope chest; there is evidence that the lock on Evelyn's once got stuck, and my lock was getting hard to work.
We're still having fun with the Roomba.
April: I planted eight multiplier onion sets and *finally* got all the tulips out of the marigold bed. I think I dug out all the tulips; I found two bulbs that hadn't sprouted.
Computers in washing machines are NOT an improvement over mechanical timers. (The ways they could be better have not been implemented.)
May: steamed asparagus, buttered asparagus, asparagus shortcake . . .
I renewed my passport.
June: In our fourteenth year here, I bought an elegant little “fused-glass” table to replace the worn-out lawn chair I grabbed as a temporary expedient for supporting my laundry basket the first time I hung clothes out to dry after we moved.
July: We replaced the range hood with one that works. Now the smoke alarm doesn't go off every time we cook.
I pulled thirteen multiplier bulbs, all fatter than the bulbs I planted, and left one plant to winter over in the garden. None to eat, but now I can afford to give away starts.
August: We celebrated our golden wedding.
September: I got a new front tooth and started a web page to report my quarter-century rides.
November: I bought a card table and we cleaned the freezer.
December: I wrote a letter.