A day off. And it rained all day; Mary had to work, and John had been hoping to ride his bike down to the mall to see the vets and the Vietnam Memorial. Instead, John had a taste of retirement. He stayed home, exercised, read and made dinner. It worked today, but can it work every day?
It was a relatively quiet week. We had Sunday brunch with Margaret and Joe, which was fun, catching up on their work lives, their short-term plans for school or new jobs and other stuff. We parted ways when they went off to watch the Patriots play and we stayed home to watch the Bengals play Baltimore. We means John.
David sent us a CD last week with a post-it on top explaining it was a new top ten list of songs. When we played it, it was just one song - "Tequila". Hmmm. It did provoke a phone call for an explanation, and a little catching up with what's going in Fairport. We also talked baseball (World Series) and football. If men didn't have sports, there'd be nothing to talk about. I just can't get Grandma to talk about pro sports though. Or college sports either.
She, by the way, is good, and is practicing walking up and down stairs to get ready for Thanksgiving here, if everyone stays healthy. And we're working on that. Melodie and Jeff are coming over as well. Annie has to work, but is coming down the day after for a week.
Annie has stories. Lots of them. She is figuring out the favorite films of some of the young people she works with, and viewing habits. One person puts on a dvd and then walks around the room without watching anything. Kind of sad.
Mary's brother Tim has moved to Mexico. He has a place an hour or so south of San Diego. Sounds nice, and we all hope it's away from all the troubles in the country.
This weekend we broke down and raked leaves. The leaf blower from Pomfret comes in handy on our deck. With three big oak trees on the property we get a lot of leaves, and nice shade in the summer.
We also went out to dinner with Peace Corps friends who had moved here with their high school children after living out of the country for the last 25 years. They are having some adjustment issues, and it looks like they will be leaving after only a year. The wife is Irish so we talked health care quite a bit, and that is one of their adjustment issues, trying to deal with health care when they have had everything provided 100% for their entire adult lives.
That's it from down here. Love
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