A three hour drive is pretty easy. Jeffrey and Melodie made the trip to Grandma's and back on the same day. John and Mary stayed overnight.
But that is if it really does take three hours. On our way up, we took rte 295 in NJ and looked over at a parking lot and wondered what that was. Turned out it was the NJ turnpike. A terrible accident shut down the turnpike in both directions, for five hours. Luckily we decided to take 295.
Because we had a great time, catching up with Grandma and with Jeff and Melodie. And with Peter and Janet and Sean who joined us for dinner Saturday night. Grandma looks and feels a whole lot better. She's walking again, and we even went grocery shopping. Sunday morning we went to Perkins for a healthy brunch.
Much of the conversation was on politics and books we were reading, dogs, plays, crafts, grandchildren and family memories. (We tried to talk Jeffrey into taking the foreign service test!) Andrew, perhaps you can help us with the name of the fried chicken fast food place we went to in Carmel Ind. We talked baseball and Grandma was really into the NFL draft - she was hoping the Lions would take Sanchez instead of the Jets.
Mary uses her time in the car for all her calls; I think she gets tired of talkking to me, or listening to me. She learned her brother Tim may be coming east in May, that John and Marilyn had a good time playing golf in South Carolina, but wondered what else people do down there, that Marj and Lew are also renovating their house. Mary also called Annie, but this is crunch time for Annie at school as she is wrapping up her thesis. Soon she'll be able to talk longer.)
Joe had a party this weekend where the theme was bad decisions. People were supposed to come dressed up as bad decisions. Mary said that she would have come as a tatoo if she had been invited or able to go. Kathleen came down for the weekend. She is getting ready for a 5 week trip to China before she starts grad school in August (at some school in New Haven.)
Last weekend, we went down to DC for Sunday morning brunch with Joe and Margaret in the eastern market. City life looks like fun.
Did I mention Mary is playing the guitar? Look for her first cd out soon - Skip to My Lou, Amazing Grace and Clementine will be her break-out covers.
No dog stories this time around. Have a great week. Love from down here.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
two websites
Hey. We've got news!
First. In case you didn't get enough dog news, here's one more. Margaret was interviewed by the local NPR station about her adoption tale. Check it out..
Adopting Foster Animals - Not Always Just a Heart-Warming Experience http://www.wamu.org/news/09/04/13.php#25985
Next, click here to see the project John has been working on for the President's and Secretary's trips this weekend. http://townhall.howcast.com/
You can even watch a live stream of Secretary Clinton at her town hall event. Hope you're having a great week.
First. In case you didn't get enough dog news, here's one more. Margaret was interviewed by the local NPR station about her adoption tale. Check it out..
Adopting Foster Animals - Not Always Just a Heart-Warming Experience http://www.wamu.org/news/09/04/13.php#25985
Next, click here to see the project John has been working on for the President's and Secretary's trips this weekend. http://townhall.howcast.com/
You can even watch a live stream of Secretary Clinton at her town hall event. Hope you're having a great week.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Easter
Joe and Margaret just left after Easter dinner, and we walked it all off. At least some of it.
It was an eventful day and a restful day. Joe and Margaret (and her dog d'Angelo) came to spend the night in order to be here when the Easter bunny came. We had a long Seinfeld-like discussion today about the logic of the bunny with eggs and chocolate and hiding the eggs, and we got lost in the logic. Then Grandma told us that Claire had done a reading at her church today which may have tied the tradition to the church. Would you share with us the reading Claire?
The events started with the cat and Margaret's dog not really getting along, at least Moe was not being very hospitable. So, we decided to take the dog to church with us, and we left the windows of the car open enough for plenty of air while we went to church. When we came out the dog was gone, and had jumped out the car window. Fortunately he had a leash and a dog tag, and about an hour and half later we got a call that the dog had turned up in someone's yard. Thankfully. The rest of the day was spent eating too many jelly beans and chocolate and reading. Nice.
Mary had the whole week off, and we started off her spring break in Pittsfield, doing a little work on the house. It was cold and it snowed each of the days we were there. Nothing stuck, reminded us how further along we are in spring. We went out to dinner with her Aunt Mary and went for a long discovery walk through the woods in the back of our house, ending up at the family cemetary. John left to come back on Wednesday, and Mary went on to Stonington and Rhode Island to see Dan and Maura, and Marg and Lew. She drove back on Friday, stopping by Hightstown to visit Grandma.
Who is not feeling so hot. It looks like she had a bad reaction to some medicine she was recently prescribed. She went off the medicine, but it's taking some time to get out of her system. Slowly on the mend.
Annie spent Easter with friends in New York, first in NY City and then on to the Hamptons! Must be nice. She's got a few short weeks left, but a thesis to finish in the meantime.
John's been busy at work, preparing for two big trips this week with Obama and Clinton going to Trinidad this coming weekend.
Not much else to report - baseball season started and things were more hopeful last week than this week. For Reds fans anyway.
Hope you all had a great Easter, and spring is on its way. Love from down here!
It was an eventful day and a restful day. Joe and Margaret (and her dog d'Angelo) came to spend the night in order to be here when the Easter bunny came. We had a long Seinfeld-like discussion today about the logic of the bunny with eggs and chocolate and hiding the eggs, and we got lost in the logic. Then Grandma told us that Claire had done a reading at her church today which may have tied the tradition to the church. Would you share with us the reading Claire?
The events started with the cat and Margaret's dog not really getting along, at least Moe was not being very hospitable. So, we decided to take the dog to church with us, and we left the windows of the car open enough for plenty of air while we went to church. When we came out the dog was gone, and had jumped out the car window. Fortunately he had a leash and a dog tag, and about an hour and half later we got a call that the dog had turned up in someone's yard. Thankfully. The rest of the day was spent eating too many jelly beans and chocolate and reading. Nice.
Mary had the whole week off, and we started off her spring break in Pittsfield, doing a little work on the house. It was cold and it snowed each of the days we were there. Nothing stuck, reminded us how further along we are in spring. We went out to dinner with her Aunt Mary and went for a long discovery walk through the woods in the back of our house, ending up at the family cemetary. John left to come back on Wednesday, and Mary went on to Stonington and Rhode Island to see Dan and Maura, and Marg and Lew. She drove back on Friday, stopping by Hightstown to visit Grandma.
Who is not feeling so hot. It looks like she had a bad reaction to some medicine she was recently prescribed. She went off the medicine, but it's taking some time to get out of her system. Slowly on the mend.
Annie spent Easter with friends in New York, first in NY City and then on to the Hamptons! Must be nice. She's got a few short weeks left, but a thesis to finish in the meantime.
John's been busy at work, preparing for two big trips this week with Obama and Clinton going to Trinidad this coming weekend.
Not much else to report - baseball season started and things were more hopeful last week than this week. For Reds fans anyway.
Hope you all had a great Easter, and spring is on its way. Love from down here!
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