Possibilities

Seems like things are changing.   

 Summer is certainly fading away. I usually mourn that.   Our thoughts are to the future months, and our other life. (Florida)   There'll  still be some warm days here,  but  the nights are colder, the days smell like fall, don't look like fall yet. I know why I'm glad I'm not a teacher.  Or have to work.  Yes. I remember the couple of past posts when I yearned for the teaching profession - but this month is beautiful!   Paul had a fire out in our firepit, out by his shed, and we took lawn chairs and sat and watched it.  It's practically hypnotizing. 

 What a treat to have the temp around 70 and be able to still go outside without a jacket.  Although, sometimes in the mornings you might need one.  Labor Day really is the point where our Fall weather begins.  It's like a page has been turned.  Onward!

Paul's been working on something:  We're planning on staying south this Christmas and not returning here til Spring.  But, we're hoping to get the family together someplace in the southlands.  Some place where the family can meet and be together for the holidays. It'd probably be between Christmas and New Years. 

It's all in the planning stages, but Paul is in the midst of looking at possibilities, looking at that, thinking. . . what if. . . where can we . . . how about . . . why not. . .    Great ideas.  I have been his sounding board.   Nothing I wish to share with you as yet, but he's working hard at the possibilities.   Nothing's in stone.

Paul is nursing a bad cough.  We went to the doctor, thinking it may be bronchitis, but doesn't seem so.  He has medications he's taking but the cough is persisting.  Maybe we're just not patient enough.  We went on Monday and it's  Friday - four days of medication.  He has ten days to complete.    We're going to take it easy this weekend.  We had hoped to go to a family reunion in western Pennsylvania, but it will not be happening.  It is what it is.

Paul's car was supposed to be ready yesterday.  It wasn't.  No big surprise there.  We're hoping for today.  It'll be great to have two cars again.  In fact, it will be stupendous.  Now Paul says, they say Monday.  One part is still missing. . . Say, what???

This week has flown by.  Carol O. came for a short visit Wednesday and stayed overnight.  We had a great gab fest.  And took a walk at the mall.  Stopping in our favorite store up here - CJ Banks.

 Carol's due for another knee replacement on the 25th of this month.  She knows what she's in for, and knows how great her replacement knee has been, so that may have eleviated some of the stress.

  Her sister, Patti, is coming down from Rochester to help her out, and then Carol will go back with her and stay at some nursing facility in Rochester, nearby, for rehab.  It's all been planned with great forethought. 

She even signed up for the handicap car on the auto-train, when she heads south for Florida in January.   Great planning, Carol! Enough time has passed then that she should be able to enjoy being a Snowbird.  The possibilites are endless.  Are you going to take up tennis???  Perhaps play a little golf.  Circlewoods has a golf league, you know. 

I called Brother Bob on his cell phone last night at cocktail hour.  We talked via speaker phone.  He
was at our house having cocktails with Bill and Epril. What a wonderful surprise, and how great he sounded!   I had thought he'd return to Carol and John's house, but evidently he's doing well enough to be on his own. 

Saw Lue and her sister Sharon yesterday for lunch at Chef's. Good food.  Paul and my bill came to $7.50 together.  At the Harvest Cafe, it usually costs a 20 dollar bill.  It has very slow service, about a 40 - 50 minute wait, but excellent food   Lue looked well.  We're all going to her granddaughter's wedding in October.  That'll be near Boston.  Then we'll meet her little great grandson, Robert. 

Well - time to fold the wash, etc. 

How're things goin in your neck o the woods?