Haven't blogged in a while . . . been busy with Kiddo, Puppy's Pop and getting caught up on my magazines. I hate it when I read them and their news is already out of date! Bummer. Nothing spectacular going on, just routine matters. Starting to get ready for our Labor Day weekend Horseshoe Tournament. Also planning to tidy up a couple of rooms upstairs so there will be a queen sized bed and air conditioning for son and his wife's visit. Kiddo wasn't too thrilled when I told him we'd have to move the toy room! I may just enlist his help when he comes Friday. He likes helping and figuring out how to do things. So he may have some good ideas. Of course he's already told me that Uncle A and Aunt M can stay in the Blue Room so we don't have to move the toy room. He lost that round!
Puppy's Pop is off flying at the Yankee Flyers' field. He's thrilled (yes, I can tell!) that he's back to mowing the field just like old times and now has a place to fly regularly. I will also be able to walk around the industrial park when I do accompany him. Heck, he may even break down and get me a coffee on rare occasions! When he returns we'll head out to Oakland Beach for lunch and a walk on the sand. Spent a very pleasant day with younger brother's wife. Went to Foxwoods and did some shopping (more like looking), had lunch at the Golden Dragon and settled for coffee and desert at Gelato's. It's so good to have a friend to talk to who really does understand you after so many years of knowing each other. Before coming home kid brother gave me a quart of blueberries he had just picked. Fantastic. I believe a pie is in order!
Been spending some time trying to help one of my former students. She is a writer and has written a play based on her great, great Aunt's diary. She was a young Canadian nun who was arrested and spent months in an internment camp in France during the Nazi take over. She asked some of her FB friends to critique her work. I try to help but I'm unaccustomed to reading on my emachine and also writing notes. I so much prefer printed material! What an old fogey I've become! Her story is very good but I'd like to see her turn it into a novel. A play doesn't seem to have room for all that needs to be said! I sent her two emails and of course she can just dismiss them. She has friends involved in theatre, writing and editing so she's in very good hands. I just get an absolute kick out of knowing these kids. They're so alive and full of courage, strength and moxie! It's okay to be getting older if you can watch the young ones grow into their skins. What fun!
Quote: The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony. __Chateaubriand
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