Quiet

We have had company over the weekend, Fred’s twin daughters and their husbands and one seventeen-year-old boy were all visiting us. The daughters and their families and I went out to eat in Burlington Last night. {Fred chose to stay home since he wasn’t having a particularly good day.} The meal was at a restaurant I had never been to before and was quite pleasant. The food was expensive but good and we were outside where we could see a bit of Lake Champlain and feel a lovely breeze.

It was nice to see them all and it is nice that they have all left now! I honestly can’t take  more than one or two people at a time and by the time they were ready to leave, I was stressed out by the noise. I went to bed early and slept ten hours which is a LOT for someone who usually does quite well on six or seven hours!

We are enjoying our home-grown tomatoes. I have picked almost all of them and they are sitting on the rail of the deck ripening. Today I took the ripest one, washed it, and put it in the cheese-and-tomato sandwich I had for lunch. Fred made himself a tomato sandwich last night while we were all out eating. My older son’s first wife used to refer to summer as the time of  "the tomato sandwich diet!" A few years ago, Fred would buy tomatoes in the winter but basically, they had no taste and were just there to make a salad look pretty. But we have found, especially this year, that the tomatoes we buy in the off-season taste MUCH better than they used to. I have no idea why, but we both noticed that the winter tomatoes tasted almost as good as the home-grown ones!

When I went to the book club meeting, my friends were asking me if I was still walking and I had to confess that I wasn’t. "Oh, that’s a shame," they said. "You were doing so well." Yes, I was and although walking is more difficult, I have resolved to start back. It is going to take a bit of self-discipine because I would much rather sit out on the deck and read the Kindle, but walking is good for my body and helps how I feel. This morning I walked up to the drug store to pick up prescriptions. I will take a short walk this afternoon, too. That is how I worked up to doing so well in the past– a small amount of walking twice a day.

It feels like autumn here today. I was sitting out reading and came in because I was chilled!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet