Friday found me up at my usual before 6;ish roll out to my routines that start with the cup of hot green tea. We had the a/c on until this morning when a front came through dropping the temps down into the 50's with gray skies and some wind. We were heading out a little aft 8 for Keswick school for grand parents day for Eliza And Sam, so there was no pickle ball but I did get in an afternoon several miles bike ride through the hood after lunch. The school program was very cute and afterwards we each headed to one of their class rooms; Nancy went to Eliza's and I to Sam's. I heard awesome things about Sam a he was such a gentleman around his classmates and very considerate as well as talented.
We took them both out of school for the day and then stopped at Chick fillet and brought a sack full of their fav's home for lunch. I opted to eat tortilla soup since we had a huge bowl leftover from this past week. It was delicious on this cool overcast day. We taught Sam to play Kings on the Corner as we waited for Tyler to come along with Ava and take them home for the afternoon since Amy was still at school where she now works to help offset the school tuition for the three kids.
I headed out after they left for an hour long bike ride and the wind coming out of the north was very chilly. I decided after hand watering the gardens to finish Madame Fourcade's Secret Way which was an awesome read about the French resistance to the Nazi's in WW 11. She was a great leader of the Alliance despite so many setbacks and harrowing escapes throughout the war period and afterwards. Those French as well as British who managed to spy on the German regime and their activities helped with saving so many lives but hundreds lost their lives in the effort. Some of those who managed to survive told of the executions of their fellow spy's in vivid detail. Some bodies were recovered after the war and reburied in honor for their effort but many were sent to the death camps and burned like the millions of Jews in the ovens. Many were just never heard of again as the Nazi's destroyed most records of their vile deeds.
We headed out around 4'ish for Keswick School to watch the girls varsity basketball game team play in the regional finals and they destroyed the other team 51-10. This was the coaches 600 victory for the school. I noticed an older man wearing a USAF hat and struck up a conversation with only to learn he once lived in our neighborhood and remember me as a trooper. His grand daughter played on the other team. He knew of Nancy but mostly Betsy who he went to school with. We left there and ordered a pizza at a new small eatery on the way home which is near our 'hood. It only seats about 30 folks or so and it was turning away folks and no tables were available. The large pizza was very good and I have enough leftover for lunch. It's a mom and pop place and everything is prepared to order by real Italians.
After a fresh salad and a couple slices we settled into the Fox Cable News until I started dozing around 9'ish and then headed to the shower and soon some horizontal lab, LATER
