Thursday Morning

Somewhere around this house, I have put down my watch and now I can’t find it. It may well be somewhere in the bed! There are only two times I take my watch off. One is when I wash dishes and then I usually  put it in my pant’s pocket. I have checked there and it is not there. The other time I take my watch off is sometimes during the night for some strange reason, I have been known to switch my watch from my left wrist to my right wrist while I am half awake. I have caught myself doing it and still cannot give you the rationale for it. So, when Fred wakes up, I will check the bed.

Last night I watched the movie “Bend It Like Beckham” on the recommendation of my sister. This is a very cute feel-good movie with a happy ending. I like movies like this. It had at least one laugh-out-loud incident. The movie is about two girls in England , one Indian and one English and their families. The Indian girls’s sister is having an engagement party and all her older women relatives are there sitting in a row in their saris  and dispensing wisdom and gossip. Suddenly in the midst of the chatter, a cell phone rings and every one of the old ladies simultaniously digs into her purse and pulls out her cell phone to check if it is hers!

 I can well believe this. A couple of years ago I was in England and was amazed how many people of both sexes and all ages walk along chatting on a cell phone. Certainly in my part of Vermont, it is oh, maybe one out of 25 people one sees on the street. But then, of course, this IS Vermont, a state that prides itself on being rural and that has laws against bill boards on highways and cell-phone towers on hills. {I approve, incidentally.} 

Well, time to get coffee and a little food into me. This morning I am off to the local school at 10 am to have a look round at the set-up for the reading program. Right now at 8 am the temperature is minus 11 and feels like minus 22. That will make walking home later fairly challenging but it is only a short distance and downhill so I am not unduely worried about it. And it will have warmed up a little by then {although I am still sure the temperature will be in the minus numbers.}

Until later…