Notes - family / friends / subtleties

       You arrived home this afternoon after having a mid-morning breakfast at Scrambler Maries near Polaris Shopping north of Columbus. Paul had a meeting so you took Kim, Owen and Brennan. The boys had their favorite pancakes with an eatable face built on top. Yesterday afternoon they had their first piano lesson and both enjoyed it enough to sign up for more. You had an enjoyable lunch with Fritz at Westerville's Bob Evans and were interrupted once when a weather alert was sent out to cell phones and the full rooms of guests sang out in unison with emergency phone buzzes -- heavy rains flooded parts of the parking lot. Fritz had to wade through about a foot of water to move his car before more rains came. You were luckier to have been parked in a handicap spot on higher ground next to the door. That afternoon you both arrived at the Uptown restaurant, Jimmy -D's, where fifteen or so class members shared a makeshift supper table. That evening you had a good chat with Kim and Paul while Rachel Maddow was speaking in the background. - Amorella

       You had light suppers and watched NBC and ABC News programs after which Carol worked outside and you did your thirty minutes of exercises, the Apple equivalent of one point six miles with a total of two point six miles for the day -- 5,056 steps. Dusk has settled in and you are relaxing, perhaps with Pandora before bed. - Amorella

       2112 hours. I feel myself becoming older slowly. Carol had me walk down to the run to see a broken limb or so across. Tomorrow I'll use the handsaw to clear it. I should have put tennis shoes on but had loafers instead. It was difficult managing the walk even with a cane in hand. I was unpleasantly surprised because I have been building on my weekly exercises that last few weeks. Perhaps this is temporary, but I doubt it. I did remind Dr. M. the other day that I remember Grandma Schick with a walker in her fifties, she had several operations on her knees which always appeared to be swollen. She had terrible arthritic pain -- lots of meds until she died in her early nineties. I am almost seventy-five and I can still walk with a cane. I feel quite fortunate. I am quite fortunate. Aging is a condition. I accept it, and I notice the subtleties.

       Post. - Amorella

       2128 hours. Happy Bastille Day!  Vive la France!