Awake: 6:13am Temp 64 sleep 6+45 sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & then join the KK meeting for (1.2) hrs. In prep for my Rotary meeting, I skip breakfast. Having a little extra time this morning, I get our Eureka vacuum cleaner out & clean the inside of our Suzuki which it badly needed.
Pick up Pres Al, then Anne & arrive @ Rotary meeting @ 12:05pm. Guest speaker today was Deborah who talked about the Conemaugh Health Foundation; quite interesting.
Rotary lunch: meatloaf, sliced potatoes, coleslaw, buns + Donna B brought ice cream for dessert. Al & I return to Nicktown @ 2:00pm.
During my Rotary time, Kathy had a good friend visit: Terry D. Kathy relayed that they enjoyed a delightful couple hours of “girl” talk over a glass of wine & a tuna salad lunch.
About 2:30pm, Kathy starts mowing the inner circle of our circular driveway; I empty the bag when full, (2) bags fill the wheelbarrow. In between that activity, I weed whack the areas that are not so accessible for Kathy’s mowing.
@ 3:15, my 1st cousins Anna & Florentz pay us a visit; we take a break, go inside our M.H. & Kathy serves some healthy snacks & I pour the wine. Anna is doing much better these days & we snack, sip & yak until 5:00pm, then F & A have to leave.
K & I continue our mowing & weed whacking until 6:02pm. Then clean up, change clothing & join the mini high school reunion over @ the Nicktown Hotel. One classmate, Jim B, whom I haven’t seen since graduating in 1958, was in town. I expected about (6) classmates to show up but, to my surprise, we counted (10), not including their spouses. It was a fun evening…..catching up on each other’s past.
Dinner: pizza & wine @ the Nicktown Hotel.
Finish DVR movie: “Gunga Din” with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, etc. The Hollywood action-adventure yarn; vaguely based on Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem, about (3) soldier-comrades in 19th-century India battling the savage thuggee cult when they aren’t busy carousing & getting into trouble. Water boy Jaffe saves the day in rousing climax. 1939. This was Hollywood’s most expensive movie @ the time; costing over one million dollars. Shot in Lone Pine, California; amazing movie for the period.
Lights out: 12:16am
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