It is what it is

Why do the days of summer fly like a jet, when the rest of the year is like a turtle?  Enjoyed the ocean yesterday.  Ogunguit and lobster roll, fried clams, and the Salty Pig were a bonus.   The weather was stable, no rain, but only partly sunny.  After last year we sure are not complaining.  Went on my birthday and it poured all day!  The beach was nice, the water cold.  So peaceful and serene.   Fun to people watch and water watch.  The tide goes in, the tide goes out.  That is enough for me!  The winding roads I can live without, but it didn't take long to feel normal again after our drive through Maine.  Amazing how many tourists there are! After a too fast day, we returned home and walked to The Salty Pig and enjoyed a relaxing evening outside on their patio, and a satisfying meal of cheese, meat and bread.  We closed out the evening with a walk to the store for breakfast frittata fixings. Flying home tonight, meeti...

The days have flown as has the summer!  After our busy rainy Wednesday and our yummy seafood dinner "down by the bay" at                              , Thursday dawned sunny but cool.  We drove with Andrew to Providence where his current office is.  Once in Newport, we found a cute bar called the Gaslight Lantern to have lunch.  I had my first real clam chowder.  One word.....YUM!  Otto and I continued to The Breakers, which takes a while to get through but is so interesting and mammoth.  We ran out of time to drive around and gawk at the other mansions or do the cliff walk, that I so wanted to do again.  One big difference from April was that the foliage is so thick on the trees now but didn't exist in the spring so you could see so much more from the mansions set back from the road.  What a place.  What a life they must have lived.  Imagine a summer home ov...

42 years ago today; Sunday, August 13, 1972, I said "I do".  After many ups and downs, I would not have had it any other way.  So much has happened.  I ended up a city girl, with three great kids that have, in my opinion, made great choices in partners and in life.  They live in 3 of the countries top cities, making travel to visit them fun.  I have a job that has been a career, teaching what I love (in addition to writing), and a husband that has been a good choice for a life partner.  (Most of the time...LOL).  And, don't forget, a dog that makes daily life interesting. Today, visiting Boston (in the rain) we are together celebrating.  We are past the going-out to a night club life (guess we were never really there!).  Most of the time we just enjoy each other's company and sharing the daily hum-drum activities. Every year we try and spend this day together.   Last year we were in Frankenmuth, Michigan, two years ago, Chicago, then...

Well thank God, there was no shower during the shower even though they were predicted.  I can't believe after all the planning and anticipation, it is over and everyone is back home (almost).  The shower was almost perfect!  The major meltdown was the food not happening at the last minute (Wednesday night) but Andrew helped me through it and I got it together enough to organize and find what we needed in time. Amanda and Bryce arrived first taking a red-eye from L.A. arriving around 6:30 Thursday morning.  Spent the day busy, she surprised her bff,  and we did all sorts of running around.  Friday, Andrew and Brian arrived in the morning from Boston, followed by Matt & Dana from Chicago.  We were able to pick up the remainder of the needed/ordered.  The day flew by and it was 2:00 in the morning before we knew it. Saturday there was so much to do to finish.  I get bossy and stressed but it all came together.  Everything was finally ...

Today my dad would have been 93.  He has been gone 33 years, more years than I knew him.  Hard to imagine that I am older now than he was when he died.  I have tried very hard to NOT do the things that were so harmful that he didn't realize he was doing.  You know, very little meat, lots of exercise, NO SMOKING, watching the BP and cholesterol .........so far so good since I have another birthday in 2 days.    Today it is suppose to storm.  Would like to hit the pool if the sun will stay out long enough!  Had Melissa's shower yesterday in Dexter at a wonderful restaurant with the best salmon salad I have ever eaten and cake (which I normally do not eat) that was filled with a raspberry jelly, and frosted with buttercream and shaved white chocolate....this is why I don't eat desserts....ooooo!   Beautiful shower.  Rain spoiled my nice clean car on the way home and we never got a drop here.    Went to the Spree to work the...

It could not get any better!

It just passed me by.   Will edit later.  Nearly half-way through June!