April 30. Sunny and slightly warmer. Very significant wind. 40 mph gusts according to the pronositco

Bed and chairs due today. Arrived without incident and had fast install

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Tried the Waterworks Hot Tub again, this time after adding a mat and Keen shoes. Worked quite well. Yeah!

Welcoming/marketing drinks and dinner at the Aquidneck Club. Drinks with the Murphy’s and then fish dinner on the patio. Decent meal. Lots of wind walking each way.

Dinner with M&G

April 28. Wicked tulips and furniture shopping.

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April 18, Sunday, most items put away and sorted, so a break….. first using of the gym! Well equipped but not well oiled. QB thinks not the quality level of Equinox.

Hot tub, waterworks in the apartment. Good tub, very slippery, no overflow valve. Hard to use this much water :-). Leg felt much better afterwards. Needs a rubber mat on bottom to get purchase; too hard to get out.

Tuesday: M &G arrive. Great to see them,

4/22 Thursday: incredible wind. Howling up in the apartment. Could barely put the chairs on the balcony. According to April this wind is abnormal, Generally windy around the tower but not like this.

Sunday 25th. First gathering of the Newport pod. Well, the pod plus Ellen and Evan (nephews of George), who are leaving the area tomorrow. Nine in total today, will be nine when Marcia and Bruce return from Florida. Dinner at Stoneacre brasserie in Newport. Handsome place designed by Dan. Sadly, food mediocre and not hot. Good setting and the only place that would take nine on rather short notice.

Sara and Lee came over for the yard sale. Took much of the left over decorator items. We will offer the balance to the staff here.

April 15 – shopping and looking a gas prices. $2.50-$2.60 Not in Cali!

April 16. A fine NE day. Rain, some snow, 37 degrees and lots of wind. Lots.

QB made a fine card for KB’s 75th. The theme is our new fortress squirrel constructed during the year of staying inside. Fortress squirrel, new electrical panels, re-design of the back yard,

A time KB much enjoyed spending with QB

April 15, shopping day. Passed many gas stations with gas around $2.50-$2.60. Not in Cali!

April 16. BDay card with Fortress Squirrel theme. The fortress, updated electrical panels, backyard redesigned were just some of the, at least for KB, the enjoyable year of staying sequestered.

Some early observations

Air Quality really good. Quite a difference,

Our new Rhode Island abode is now named. Reminiscent of Binghamton days where we lived in a building we named Geezer Towers. Of course, at the time we were not the geezers. And now we are.

Arrival.

Above, just some of the large collection of boxes from the Amazon, UPS and USPS moving company

Fab views

Fruit desert, nothing like Cali

Outstanding staff. All of them.

Many small items to fix, staff helping with many but others will require outside work, Not much.

Tuesday, finished unboxing with fab tool. Then off to Wickford a charming late 18th century town.

Early dinner