Well Thursday was another hot and humid day and the short down pour of rain last evening late helped with that scenario but was it oh so welcome. The morning was much routine but the evening hours saw us at the Miller's Ale House in Seminole with neighbors and friends Dan and Carol for a delicious meal and then back to our hacienda for some card games and dominos.
The day started with my before 6'ish roll out to my routines that included a cup of green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then I spent a few quiet moments in thanksgiving with my Creator. Afterwards I checked my usual web sites that started with Ray's weather. com for the Sparta area then the Winchester Star for the obituaries in my home town. It was really interesting to learn one of my '64 classmates who just passed was a 30 year career CIA employee and that he passed from the same illness his wife passed from three years ago; a brain tumor. Very Interesting. I never kept up with him after high school as I really never had any close friends who were classmates. Since I was a farm boy I was relegated to feeding the livestock twice daily along with milking cows twice daily and the fact we lived several miles from town and the fact I left home right after graduation for N.C. to attend Gardner-Webb College. I did come back for awhile as I had a high school girl friend but that changed shortly after being on a campus with those southern belles who spoke ya'll.
I headed out on my bike for the Rec. around 8'ish and managed to get in a good wet shirt workout on the pickle ball court. We had two courts in action so I never sat down for the entire two hours. I made a quick stop at the library on the way home. Nancy was getting ready to run some errands so I settled into some computer work before finishing up a good read about good cops catching bad cops with the NYPD. The book is titled BLUE ON BLUE. This author was inside the departments IAB as its chief for 18 years and knew the insides and out of cops gone bad for whatever reason and their terminations and prosecutions; good read.
Amy and Eliza Faye came for lunch as GG was gone until Monday. Nancy spoke with her and she is occupied with new surrounding so her anxieties have gone by the way side and will be that way as long as she is somewhat entertained. That is why we would like for her to spend the summer months(5) in Michigan and then we entertain her while we are in Florida for those months which are about 7 when we get back in the fall. When she is bored she sits around and dreams up issues that cause her to be anxious thus she is at the doctors office 2-3 times a week, oh well. We finished up some leftovers for lunch then made plans to meet at 5'ish at the new eatery in the old Seminole Mall called Miller's Ale House with the Botbyl's. We had a 30 minute wait and ran into an old neighbor friend from 30 years ago or more. She had three girls the youngest which is Bobby's age and they were playmates for a couple of years when they were elementary school age. She now has several grand children and was babysitting one of her girls kids while they were away for the weekend.
Well after a great meal once again as Thursday's are prime rib night; I did the special and it was very nice. A huge medium rare piece with smashed taters & gravy along with cole slaw for 13.95. Nancy had what I had last time with shrimp in an Alfredo sauce and she brought half of it home. The menu said 35 shrimps and it was true or more in the dish. Well we came home and settled into a game of Phase 10 and then 12 rounds of dominoes. It was close to 9 when the party broke up as it was shower time for me and then some horizontal lab. The Ray's were off as they won their last series 2 out of 3 against the Indians and now take on the division leading Yankees at home for three games. We are getting closer to out Thursday morning leave for New Orleans for three nights and four days to attend our friends the Tracy's daughters wedding on Saturday, LATER
