Milestones, passports, and plants

It's June 1. Today is the 41st anniversary of Walt's and my life together as a couple. We met in Paris in September 1981, We both returned to the U.S. in 1982. We got an apartment together in Washington DC in 1983. We moved to California in 1986 and lived there for 17 years. We sold our house in San Francisco and moved to Saint-Aignan in France in 2003. We've been here for 21 years now. That's longer than either one of us has ever lived in one place in our lives.

My new U.S. passport arrived yesterday. The renewal process was fraught and stressful, but now it's done. It took weeks to figure it out and I waited a month for the new passport to be delivered after I sent in the application. I'm glad I started early. The expiration date on my old passport was December 4, 2024.