I had very mixed emotions this morning. Either go take a nap, go to Curves, or blog. It's raining out. I didn't feel like leaving the house. So no Curves. I can take a nap this afternoon. So - here I am!
We have a houseful. Bob is here. He's just left for the Corning YMCA, which makes me kinda feel guilty. I CAN go to Curves at 3:00 instead, which I may still do. Noi and Greg are going to cook spare ribs tonight. Sounds good. One meal I don't have to prepare. So it looks like I can fit everything in. . . . if I want to.
Yes. We have a houseful. Brenda arrived, as mentioned before, before graduations.
Bob came in on Wednesday afternoon from Pittsburg, where he dropped his son, Paul, off. Paul had flown down to Fla. for his own birthday, June 18th, and then drove back up with his dad, so he had company on the drive up to visit.
Noi, Greg, Brenan and NeeNee and their little dog, Gus, arrived Saturday morning at 6 AM. They drove all the way through - 19+ hours - from Gainesville.
All of a sudden on Saturday, we had 18 people for lunch. Everyone came - from Corning to Odessa. Brenda even had her roommate and her husband drive up from Princeton for an overnight stay. (They stayed in a hotel. No room here.) Brenda made her pickled bologna sandwiches for everyone. We used up two loaves of bread. Plus Paul made up a huge batch of wimpies - 5 lbs. of hamburger mix. We had chips galore, so everyone had something to eat. Bob and I had gone to Sam's club in the morning and gotten one of their huge containers of small sugar donuts. They were gone.
It has been raining almost the whole time Bob has been here. He asked if it ever stopped. It's supposed to be better weather coming along, so that on Fourth of July, which is in four days we should have perfect Fourth weather. Let's hope so.
The whole family went to a Pioneers Baseball Game in Elmira at Dunn Field yesterday. We went for the game, but we mostly came because our Corning Grandson's baseball team was to be honored by the players being called onto the field before the game. Their team is sponsored by the Pioneers. Paul's son is the manager.
The weather forecast was mediocre to bad. A lot of chance of rain. The game was supposed to start at 5. All of us were to get there at 4:30 to make sure we saw the kids. The stadium is completely covered, but we sat half-way up the rows - to be sure to be out of the rain .. . if it rained. But - the best laid plans. . . We got there, and the first game hadn't been finished - due to rain. The tarp was still over the infield. That had to be unrolled. Then they had to rake up the dirt, and play from the 5th to the 7th inning. They did that. And began to prepare the infield.
Then a huge rain cloud appeared and they again covered the infield. The storm to beat all storms, perhaps a slight exaggeration, came up - the wind, the rain. We were all soaked because the rain poured over the roof, and the wind blew with such force that the rain blew into the stadium from the openings in the back. The roof leaked. Paul, I and Bob had umbrellas. Nobody else did. So we sat in our chairs, the rest ran downstairs to the lobby/ refreshment area. Soaked. The roof leaked there too. It was unfortunate.
After a while, Paul, Bob and I made our wet apologies and left for home. So did most of the family. We all felt guilty, but time-wise there was so much time left before the game could even start - the field had to be prepared for the new game. We got home at 8:00. Our daughter-in-law sent us an e-mail this morning that the game had been cancelled. Phew. Felt much better about the whole thing. It was not pleasant.
I want to thank everyone for our anniversary cards. We had a nice day: we had 18 people there for lunch and then in the evening Paul and I went to Tanino's Restaurant in Horseheads. It's my favorite. Our meals were very good. As usual. And I like the ambiance. Perfect.
So - I found that my math isn't so good. I want to apologize for my other post. To me, it made sense that two coffees would be $2.10, but people have pointed out to me that with tax, it comes to $2.11. So I grandly and with much fanfare, am showing the error in my math ways.
You can see that my Ph. D in Math daughter got her math abilities from her engineering/mathematically minded father. Not me. Mea Culpa.
Our week is full of activities. I'll report on them as soon as I can. It's nice to be busy, but we also like our quiet, which will come, and then we'll miss everyone again. It's a vicious cycle.
So - how're things goin' in your neck o' the woods?
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