Notes - two fun days with friends and family

12 September 13         

You had a good lunch and conversation with Fritz (Fritz and Carol are just back from several weeks in Scotland) at Bob Evans on State Street in Westerville and presently you are Otterbein Cemetery looking southeast at the stained glass on the west side of the Mausoleum.

         1309 hours. I took a couple of photos but they did not come out well. At least it is not raining and I can put the car windows down. It is a rather bleak day and it poured most of the way up here today. No complaints. We need the rain. It is mostly quiet in this cemetery. I have always liked it here since 1944 when we first walked the graveled roads of the place over to the west woods going down to the bottoms of Alum Creek. My earliest memory would be the pretty shaped stones, green well trimmed grass and shrubbery and the tall trees. I liked the way the stones were lined up and that some were large enough to hide behind. I don’t know when I became conscious people were buried in the cemetery until I was four or five. Anyway, around that time I became even more respectful of the place it added a sacred/haunted/spiritual quality to the cemetery. (1319)

         Time to stop by Cathy and Tod’s. Enjoy the day. – Amorella

13 September 13

         Mid-afternoon and you and Carol had a treat at Graeter’s before coming over to the far north lot of Pine Hill Lakes Park where you are facing west. You hadn’t opened the computer until now and didn’t realize you wrote anything yesterday and thus did not post it. You did see Cathy and Tod and chatted an hour or so then you and Cathy saw Aunt Patsy and Uncle Ernie and Wendy and chatted for another hour or so. After taking Cathy home you found a good parking place next to Johnny V’s to find Jean L., Ken C., Bev and her husband Jim already at an outside table. No sooner did you pull up a chair Bill M. arrived so you moved inside to the meeting room and by six o’clock it was full of people from your Class of 1960 and more. Everyone had a good time or at least appeared to have a good time and you left when most of the others did, a quarter after eight. Once up to Kim and Paul’s you found Owen was still up waiting to see his Papa so you were very well greeted. Paul had an idea that since Kim was getting a new iPhone through Verison he would get the family plan and put you on it so you and Kim are both getting 5S phones and Paul is ordering them next week. They always get a full plan so you can use the smart phone capabilities just as they do. Kim said you will have to learn how to text. What do you think of that? – Amorella

         Dumbfounded and surprised, and what is extra nice, we will have one less cell phone on Cincinnati Bell and Carol will use my (Paul’s) old iPhone but she will keep it as only wireless as I have it now. I insisted on paying for the new phone though and I know I will not use the 4-G aspects very much. I don’t need to because I have Wikipedia Offline. They are very nice to us. They assured me they were going to have the same bundle of phone and text goodies they have now so it is doable. I shouldn’t be getting excited about it, but I am anyway. Who would have ever thought I would have a smart phone plan? Not me. Not worth the money in my book. I had heard of family plans but still have no idea how they work. Kim says Paul always takes care of the phone business. For them it is a necessity, for you it wasn’t even a want. – Amorella

         It wasn’t a want because of the price and because it really isn’t a need. In some ways it’s rather silly for us to even have iPhones but I like the apps and its use on the home wireless or at McD’s. In fact, the day before yesterday I checked iCloud on the iPhone and found my (final drafts) right where they should be. I can even read them from my iPhone – that is something else, I’ll tell you. Again, who would have thought such a thing would ever be possible any time let alone in our lifetime. I love being alive in this time period. I am 71 and hardly ever a really dull moment.

         Tonight, if you feel like it we can work on Dead 3, if not, then tomorrow. Kim, Paul and the boys will be down next weekend and on the following Monday you will drive up to be with Owen and Brennan for a Grandparents’ Lunch at Primrose School at Lewis Center, Ohio. Later, dude. – Amorella

         Dusk. You had left over stuffed green peppers and half a peanut butter and raisin sandwich for supper. You watched the news and Wednesday night’s BBC’s “Broadchurch”. You are tired and don’t feel up to par for writing even though you know you would feel better getting another section, “Dead 3” completed.

         2036 hours. I had two busy fun days with family and friends, then home and relaxation. Nice, and it’s not yet the weekend.

         Post. - Amorella