Awake: 6:15am Temp 57 sleep 5+42 fog…then sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
We are lucky; today we are invited for dinner @ the home of the forever young & active Gary & Rosemary C….who live directly east of us about (20) miles. We also have plans to visit Bernie & Richard, both in a care center en route.
So, after Kathy's political programs are over, we motor to the care center & visit, 1st with Bernie, who is doing a lot better. We find him sitting in a wheelchair, right leg (the affected leg) crossed over the left. He hears well but his thought process & speech is somewhat impaired; his sentence starts out audible & normal but soon deteriorates into a jumble of almost inaudible sounds accompanied by a frustrated facial expression. In spite of this, during our (40) min visit, we communicated fairly well with times of laughter & moments of sadness.
Just across the hall & one door down, we find Richard also sitting in his wheelchair with both feet propped up on the air conditioner so he could easily look outside. Richard is ready to move out; his memory is terrific, he keeps up on what’s happening, etc. He would like to be home & be outside, working in the garden, but he has gotten progressively weaker as he waited for his fractured hip to heal.
From here, we motor to the spacious & beautifully landscaped acres & home of Gary & Rosemary. With very little persuasion, I help Gary move a picnic table from his garage to their patio on the west side of their house; then we all settle down….not on the picnic benches but on the porch on the opposite side of the house looking east. Here we each have a rocking chair & a round table for our snacks & wine. With a gorgeous & serene view of rolling hills, we express some political & scandalous opinions about our illustrious leaders in Washington, and then vent a few monstrous complaints relating to high fuel prices, etc. By doing so, we shed a lot of our frustrations, leave them outside & head for the dinner table inside.
Both Gary & Rosemary as chefs; grilled Cornish game hens, potato salad, coleslaw, rolls, carrots, black olives, celery & a cheese cake smothered with cherry sauce for dessert. It was a wonderful meal with (2) extraordinary people & a beautiful day. Dark clouds were accumulating overhead as we headed for our car &, sure enough, we experienced a car wash en route to Nicktown.
Late DVR movie: “Man to Remember” with Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman, William Henry, etc. Ellis is showcased as a selfless doctor with an abundance of commonsense wisdom who spends (20) years serving an often-ungrateful town. 1938. Very inspirational.
Lights out: 11:23pm
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