Karen's last day for this year!

Today was the last day to file taxes thus the last work day for tax professionals at H&R Block. Jay, the guy in this picture with Karen, is not coming back next year and is "retiring." Now I don't think there is any retirement plan for these people as they are only temporarily employed during the tax preparation time of the year, January 1 till April 15, so actual retirement might be a misnomer if you expect a pension or anything like that. Nevertheless, Jay says he won't be back so it was an opportunity to send him off as a retired person. It was also an end of the season luncheon and I had lunch with them which gave me a little more time with Karen in the middle of the day. I loved that!!

So today it is raining and you know what they say about April showers. I'm really going to see some green around here as soon as it warms up again. Tomorrow Karen and I are going to spend the day down at her office closing it up and getting it ready for the down season. We had to go back down there last night so Karen could finish up some last minute work and we didn't get home until after 1:00am. So neither of us had much sleep last night but I'm not dragging too much today and Karen was too busy to be tired when I was there for lunch. The end is in sight and next week we will be down in Zion and this week will be history. Time marches on, so they say. No matter what, I am a happy guy being able to spend time with the lady I love even if she's a working girl.