2018 Life Logs, Day 224—A Day of Visiting
Date: Sunday, August 12, 2018
Weather: Mostly Cloudy with Periods of Sunshine; High 81, Low 70 F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was a laid-back Sunday that included some visiting. Heather sent a text early that their plans for the day had changed and instead of going there for breakfast, I took my morning smoothie with me and went over to just visit for a bit. Heather and Jed were getting ready to go shopping for a table for their deck and Ollie and Jonah were not interested in going. The Keefe’s next door were headed to Menauhant Beach and Jonah really wanted to go. So, I volunteered to take Jonah and Ollie to the beach while Heather and Jed went shopping. Heather and Jed then picked them up from the beach at 1:30 pm and headed to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History to meet up with friends and walk out to the beach there. When I got home from the beach, Peter and Karen Baranowski dropped by to visit for a bit. Karen’s Aunt Shirley, who owns the cottage as well as her own house next door, returned on Thursday after being away since May. So, Peter and Karen checked-in with Shirley and her sister Doris and then walked across the driveway to visit with me. When they left, I walked over to visit with Shirley and Doris and spent more than hour just sitting with them on the deck and enjoying their company. Doris will be 100 years-old on October 4 and Shirley just celebrated her 93rd birthday. Although their physical movement is limited, they are both totally mentally alert. As we sat on the deck, we watched the people next door who were cleaning out their boat on the dock, Doris mentioned that yesterday there were college-aged girls on the boat in bathing suits that left little to the imagination. I got a kick out of her comment about how good she used to look in a bathing suit. And she mentioned that she has worn two-piece bathing suits in her lifetime, just not ones that revealed so much! After talking with Shirley and Doris, I spent some time watering my gardens and then I went back to Heather and Jed’s for dinner. Unfortunately, Ollie was so worn out by his overnight at the Keefe’s and visits to two beaches today, that he was fast asleep on the couch.
But Heather, Jed, Jonah, and I had a nice dinner on the deck and I left wishing them a wonderful week+ vacation in Maine. They will return next Tuesday or Wednesday, so tomorrow morning I begin my vacation from Camp Oma. I have so many things I want to get done that I just don’t know where to start.
