Renewed friendships

I heard from Mom and Jill today, but the rest of the day has been rather quiet family-wise, except for the call from Justin, telling me that he was not coming. Today is Kathy B.'s birthday but she had to work at the school where she is going to teach, a brand-new school not quite ready for her. She told me her tables for the classroom were just delivered and were being assembled but will not be in place for classes Monday. She will have to improvise, coming up with something else to do in order to instruct her classes since she is the computer instructor. Oh, brother! The joys of teaching in a brand-new school with brand-new equipment and furnishings.

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At our church, the classrooms are being set up for the first day of preschool as well as the first day of kindergarten. Laurie Langley is teaching the pilot kindergarten, instructing three of her own kids plus three others, including our own Mario, Twila's great-grandson. He is such a delightful child and will certainly flourish in the kindergarten with the other kids!

Mario is shown here in the white shirt, clapping his hands during Vacation Bible School

The Jaguar game is not going to be aired tonight due to a blackout so I am incredibly sad about that. I really like to watch football, pro football, that is, on TV. My neighbors were just leaving for the game when I came home from my soda run, so that means at least four people in the seats from this building. I am not sure if anyone else from The Palace was going, although several Owners have season tickets.

Last week I was truly delighted to make contact with an "old" school friend, Missy, who had gone through grade school and high school with me. When she wrote back to me, she said she had JUST been thinking about me. What? How can this be? We have not seen or heard from each other since many years ago when we ran into her at Marian's church in Pomano Beach, I think Justin was yet a baby! She told me she thought about how I always made her smile. Missy remembered me accidently having a piece of gum or candy fall down my top! That might have been only last week! Oh my, was I doing that more than 35 years ago, too??? Missy lives in Atlanta now and is the real estate business. I look forward to long renewed friendship with her, now that we have found one another again.

Guess I will put the vacuum cleaner away for now, as I doubt I will do more. I want to get a few things ready for tomorrow like tableware and cloths, so I won't have to do it all in the morning. Hopefully the weather is nice tomorrow in case anyone wants to use the pool, although my guess is that most will stay up here where the party is! And the food!