Summary of 2013
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January: Dave bought another camera — a wee tiny movie camera.
February: After a drop in bank-account interest, we bought Norfolk Southern stock. I think this is the first time we've been directly in the stock market since we sold out to buy our first house.
March: Dave bought a computerphone; I started carrying his old TracFone. My epiretinal membrane was examined and found so stable that I don't have to come back for a whole year unless I notice a change.
April: Dave revised the household net to stand the strain of all those cameras. My favorite Mexican grocery was gutted by fire. My new typing chair wore out and I resumed using the old one. The spring flooding was interesting but not inconvenient.
May: Dave acquired a very large flower pot and bought a tomato plant. He brings the tomato in at night to foil the deer.
June: The second flood of the spring terminated the asparagus season. I accidentally rode my first quarter century of the year, then set out to do one on purpose, but dropped out when invited to dine at Mad Anthony's. We had several trees cut down, and the willow dropped a large chunk into the park.
July: Dave's tomatoes started turning red. I bought a pound of bacon. Dave called for an estimate on the rest of the ash trees. After carefully examining its construction, I bought the only secretary's chair in town.
August: Dave got a chunk cut off his nose. The cancer was smaller than expected, so no skin graft was needed.
A computer died and brought down the camera net for weeks. Most of what was on it was backed up.
I had a tooth cavity filled, deeper than expected. The cat was examined and is doing just fine.
September: The rest of our ash trees were cut down. The front lawn looks strange.
October: still getting an occasional tomato. Dave discovered that our slowest computer has been diligently running Seti At Home for years; he deleted it and performance improved.
November: we got our first snowfall on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It didn't stick.
December: Merry Christmas!