prep time

  Spent the day getting ready to leave.  Mostly attending to small details:  mowed the lawn -- new battery for camera -- reload photo programs into the computer (continuing to fix the "fixes" done by a friend)  -- arrange my multitude of pills into a travel box --  grease and fix my knee brace which started to come apart when I walked this morning -- and etc.  of interest to no one, including myself --  But I needed an entry for today lest our fan base be disappointed  DA