Notes - nothing much /

         Mid-morning. You are ready for your kidney ultrasound at Bethesda North this morning and will be leaving in about ten minutes.

         I can’t help thinking about Bob Pringle and all those years of kidney problems he suffered through. I am glad, that at least in imagination, I can keep him close through Merlyn and Arthur in the story.

         It is nothing to tweak a story, orndorff. Why not, no harm done either way. – Amorella.

         Mid-afternoon, and you are at the Tylerville’s Kroger while Carol picks up fruit. A near miracle occurred in that Carol and you returned to Cincinnati Stone on Cox Road and she picked out her granite for the kitchen countertops and island as well as the sink and faucet.

         I am amazed. We started this shopping last January and in January we will have it installed. Now we have to pick out backdrop tile from the countertop to the bottom of the cabinets and that should pretty much do it. Carol is excited, no more second thoughts. I have lived so long to see Carol make up her mind on a major purchase. “Most awesome”, as my mid-eighties seniors used to proclaim. I have to temper my thinking here. She picked out our last home (which we had built) on a Saturday morning without much of a search beforehand, so there is precedent.

         It has been a great day so far, and we had lunch at Longhorn – steak and baked potato with a side of cooked mushrooms and onions to smother the steak with. Carol had her favorite salad. Lunch, all of it, was only 650 calories. I thought it would be a 1000 because it was so good.

         Tomorrow Carol has her breakfast with several retired Blue Ash teachers and is getting her hair done in the afternoon. You can relax more than you usually do.

         I would like to spend some time with Merlyn and Arthur.

         Perhaps so. Post. – Amorella.