The Firepit

Location: Radford, Virginia

Boring.  That's a word we've heard a lot lately - and not just from other people (yawn). It's been about 10 months since we last wrote a Khronicle just after Covid hit.  Mostly that's because there just hasn't really been much going on for us to write about.  It's not like we've been travelling to exotic locations or doing cool or funny stuff.  On the contrary, like many of our friends, we've been leading relatively quiet, boring lives these days.

You know the drill.  Get up, make coffee, read the news, have breakfast, decide what we're going to do today. For us these days it's been mostly house jobs and going for walks.  Having been isolated for so long, we've given ourselves a long list of jobs; floors, kitchen cabinets, painting - you get the idea...

One of the highlights of our fall and winter that hasn't involved work has been the fire ring Julie requested for her birthday. It's really extended our outdoors time together, as well our ability to socialize well into winter.  Several of our ex-cruising friends who are now RVing have stopped by on their travels to visit for a day or a few.  Since they are traveling with their own homes, we can stay isolated in ours.  And with social distancing by seating them on the other side of the fire, it's almost like the "old days" pre-Covid.

There's nothing like sitting, chatting, quietly staring into the fire, feeling the warmth in front and the cold in back, taking turns to periodically mess around with it, pushing the coals around, adding wood, moving your chair to avoid the smoke, etc.  Oh, and let's not forget the ring toss game...

Actually, maybe our lives aren't so boring after all....

And, as an extra bonus this year, we got to wake up to a white Christmas!

All the best,

Mark & Julie