Life After Windbird, Day 60: Dinner with Friends in New Hampshire
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Weather: Sunshine, but Still Cool; Low in the 40’s, High 59 degrees F
Location: At Home with Rich and Leslie Kole, Rye, New Hampshire
My day didn’t go exactly as planned, but I did make it to New Hampshire to have dinner with friends. This was a ‘girls night out’ with teaching friends Detta Porat, Leslie Kole, and Cheryl Dolin. The three of them have been getting together almost monthly during the school year for over 20 years. At one time everyone lived in Concord, New Hampshire, but now Cheryl is the only one there. Detta and Leslie live in the Portsmouth area on New Hampshire’s tiny bit of coastline. With traffic it was almost three hours from the Cape to Portsmouth to Leslie’s home, and then we drove another half hour to meet halfway from here to Concord. It was lots of driving, but well worth it. I had an evening of fun with friends and got to enjoy the colorful fall leaves here on the coast. The colors further inland weren’t this vibrant, so that was an added bonus.
I mentioned that my day didn’t go quite as expected. I had hoped to get here much earlier in the afternoon, but my departure from home kept getting delayed. The final delay had to do with the ‘no heat’ in my apartment situation. When I stopped to get my mail, The Studio maintenance person, Ed, saw me and inquired about the fact that there is no heat in my apartment. My neighbor Kat had seen him and explained the situation. He asked me to go try a few things, so I did, but still no luck. He thinks it might be the thermostat and said he would have to call a heating-air conditioning repairman. Thankfully the temperature is going back up over the next few days giving us a little time to solve this problem.
I am staying with Rich and Leslie tonight and Leslie has a vigorous five mile walked planned for us in the morning. Not sure my knee will make it five miles, but we’ll go as far as I can go. Then it is to Kittery, Maine, just across the border from Portsmouth, for a little outlet shopping. And then home.
