2023 Life Logs, Day 125: A Day Full of Laughter
Date: Friday, May 5, 2023
Weather: Cloudy AM, Partly Sunny PM, Still Cool; High 55, Low 44 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA

If laughter is good for the soul, my soul should be good tonight. The day started off as just a normal day, but the laughter came later. At 8 am I left home to drove north across the bridge. I was headed to West Wareham to pick up the generator I took in almost a month ago to have the carburetor cleaned or replaced. It sat from 2016 until this last winter without anyone trying to start it, so they did have to replace the carburetor. I thought we were going to need it as an auxiliary power for plugging in our power tools for working on the boat as the electricity source wasn’t reliable. But somehow that remedied itself and the generator wasn’t needed. Good thing because it took much longer to get it back than promised. So that is now running again in case we need it for anything.

I barely got home for the next activity. At 10 am, Claudia Needham came over to meet about the Public Policy group we co-chair. We met for two and half hours and came up with some really good ideas for the group. I had planned to clean house this afternoon as there is an open house on both days of this weekend. But just before Claudia left, another friend called to remind me that we were going to local theater production together tonight. She also mentioned that she was going to the public library at 3:30 pm to see “80 for Brady.” This is the movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sallie Fields, and Rita Moreno with appearances by Tom Brady and the Gronk. Claudia and I had both wanted to see this but not gotten a chance. So, we decided to go to that. She went home for lunch and then I picked her up and we went together. The movie was hilarious from beginning to end with a few touching parts that almost brought tears. I laughed ‘til I cried and cried ‘til I laughed. So much fun.

I barely had time to get home, fix dinner, and take Shadow for a walk before returning to town to go to see “Something Rotten!” at Highfield Theater. It was a Falmouth Theatre Guild production. I have never been to one of their productions and I was presently surprised. This play was first produced on Broadway in 2015. It takes place during the Renaissance in 1595. It is a musical comedy, and funny it is. The acting, singing, and music were all top-notch. And it kept the audience laughing for almost three hours as ”two brothers set out to write the world’s first musical in this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway.”

I drove home by the light of the beautiful full moon set in a sky mottled with white clouds—very dramatic ending to a great day.