Ah, what a day . . .

Such a pretty Miss.

Nowhere to go because of the bad weather forecast for tomorrow so P&D's Pop took us to Oakland Beach on Narragansett Bay today. Incredibly beautiful, bright, cold cloudless afternoon; sat in the healing warmth of the sun in the wonderful windows at the Top of the Bay and watched the gulls and cormorants wielding overhead; excellent lunch with a Black Russian and some Bud. If you forget about the idiocracy in Hartford and DC life can be perfect. Almost 48 years married and the pleasure, warmth, closeness and love is sweet.

On our return we went to make another video of the newest plane. The Panasonic is much better than the old Konica/Minolta for video; that's for sure. Grampa is in the basement hangar working on bettering the Shark. We will miss having Kiddo tonight because of the weather forecast but I should see him next Friday when I go to help at Sacred Heart and then he, his Mom and I will head to Stonington for another basketball game. The kids got robbed Tuesday when they played St. Bernard Academy. Our local catholic schools have grades K-8 in one building. They have no middle school to speak of so the JV teams for sports in all K-8 catholic schools are made up of Fifth and Sixth Graders. The Varsity teams are only 7th and 8th Graders. Since St B's Academy is a true Middle School they play Sixth and Seventh Graders for JV and actually allow some of them to play Varsity. That isn't in the rules governing our K-8 Schools. The academy is only supposed to play their 6th Graders against the Fifth and Sixth graders of the other Catholic League Schools. Our kids were working hard and were a bit ahead of St. B's when the St. B's coach put in his 7th graders. We lost by 3. I suppose it may be considered sour grapes but there are supposed to be rules about only Fifth and Sixth Graders playing JV. Oh well, I have someone looking in to the rules for me just for shits and giggles. And yes, my language is appalling but I really love that expression!

Quote:  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.   ___Spurgeon