It hasn’t been a very productive month here at the blog so far and that situation isn’t likely to change over the next week or so as we’re about to leave on another road trip, this one venturing into a part of the country that I’ve never been to before in the Upper South (just north of the Deep South) where we’ll be visiting relatives.

I didn’t plan to be taking this big of a break this spring, but , when the need for surgery arose last month, squeezing it in between two previously planned trips in late-April and mid-May seemed to be the best option. Thanks for the many well wishes – a few days ago, I wasn’t even sure that we’d be taking this trip, but the last day or so has been a dramatic improvement. Unless the house-sitter fires up one of the laptops left behind, don’t look for anything new here until the end of next week when a normal schedule should resume.

I’m not sure what I was thinking yesterday in somehow believing I was ready to sit in front of a computer for an extended period of time so quickly, but, it’s back to riding the couch for a while.

It looks like the Players Championship gets underway today down in Florida. That should be useful for whiling away quite a few hours in the days ahead. Watched some of the House hearings yesterday on last year’s Benghazi attack – hopefully watching grown men hitting a little white ball into a hole will be more fun.

I’m having some fairly routine outpatient surgery early tomorrow morning and, as such, offering up pearls of wisdom will be put on hold until such time that the drugs have worn off and I’m able to sit upright and type.

When that will be is anyone’s guess, but I don’t think it will be more than a couple days as I tend to get kind of bored after watching 10 or 15 episodes of Gunsmoke and Marshal Dillon (it wasn’t until a year or so ago that I learned there was a half-hour show with the late James Arness that preceded the long-running hour-long series).

There will be little or nothing new here in the days ahead due to a trip to the East Coast to visit family and friends.

Some minor surgery next week and more travel later in May will make for light or no posting for a good portion of next month.

Things should get back to normal before Memorial Day, but, then it will be just about summer time, a season when it is very difficult to sit in front of a computer in Montana.