Monday, July 27, 2015

Happy Birthday to Chuck!




Today Chuck is 65! We went to the Colophon Cafe in Fairhaven (Bellingham, WA) for a lunch of peanut butter cream pie. This has been a rare favorite dessert for decades, since we were in college and dating.

I always slice off the top chocolate layer for Chuck to eat because I do not like dark chocolate. When the young waitress wondered where my chocolate went, I told her that. Then she said, "That is adorable!" (The giving to him part, I assume.)

Such a comment was sweet, but made me imagine an extremely elderly couple. . . .maybe what we are as we head into the Medicare years!

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Blogging



I have had a respite from blogging since May (or longer). I did not even blog at all in the month of June. The main reason I am writing some now is that a friend I rarely see told me she missed my blog posts. At a good-by party for someone else, Nancy asked me if I was still blogging and that she missed seeing what I posted.

What a surprise! I did not think anyone noticed. Although I realize that blogging friends and other friends have treated me with patience and understanding, I am pleased that someone told me that my blogging posts were missed.

This is probably a poor time to start again, because tomorrow (Wednesday), Chuck and I are making our annual trip to WA State to visit our daughters in Seattle and Chuck's parents in Bellingham, plus friends that still live in the area. Going on a trip means busy-ness keeeps me away, but I will try to put some pictures and comments about what we are doing up.

The weather has been unseasonably warm/hot in WA State, so we hope that the 90 degrees weather is behind them. Chuck and I are too accustomed to being inside air-conditioned houses and find non-air-conditioned homes to be uncomfortable when it is so hot.

Luckily, where we will be staying in Seattle is at our long-time friends' home, and they have a basement that stays cool. In fact, that is where Chuck and I will be sleeping!

Monday, July 20, 2015

Prayer



“Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed.
Even if sickness distracts from thoughts,
all that is needed is the will to love.”
                                                     ~St. Teresa of Avila