9-20-17  riding around St. Charles:

The first couple days were spent taking care of business---getting a tire fixed on the Escape and getting the Taurus inspected and registered.  Ken later decided to also have the brakes replaced and have the oil changed.  He also had a Dr. appointment.  While he was busy taking care of that stuff, I was busy going through more junk in the house and purging, going to the pool, having lunch with friends, taking a walk or two, even doing a little sewing.  We managed to have breakfast, lunch, or dinner with just about everybody.  It was nice catching up.
One of the times we were in St. Charles, we took a ride to one of our old favorite bike routes.  How I miss those flat paved roads to bike on!

 and checking out the farming changes.

 and the old familiar buildings.

I had hoped to find a bike to leave there.  I would have loved to get out there and ride again.  But with the temps being up in the upper 90's about 10 days and being so busy, I would have only had one chance to go.  Still plan to get another bike to leave there.