A glorious day!

Even though I had to drop too much money for new tires (with an oil change thrown in!) and new wipers, it was a wonderful day! First order of business was to stop by Edward Jones to drop off something and I had a nice chat with Debbie. She was alone in the office so we could sit and chat without interruption from the boss, Frank. We had a good chuckle, too, because I accidentally set off my car alarm when I was getting out of the car, as I was reaching down to pick up a plastic cup from the floor and leaned on the panic button on my keys! No matter what, I could not sneak up on Debbie!

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From her office I went down to the cemetery to check on things, since I had not been there since before I left for WI. It was quite busy today, tents were set up in various spots with one committal service taking place not far from Timmy's site. I saw a couple ladies walking around, looking at the grave sites, as I sat down on the bench. One of the ladies, Helen, came and sat next to me, saying her sister knows the child's parents. I said, "Well, I am his mom" and here came Dorothy! Helen, Dorothy, and another sister were at the cemetery sprucing up their mom's marker and that of Helen's daughter, killed in a car wreck three years ago. Helen said that Dorothy and she would often come over and visit Timmy's site and today they were fortunate enough to find me there! Dorothy is married to one of our former superintendents, Scotty, who knew Timmy and attended the service, sitting with the rest of the family/staff at the church. I was quite touched to know that others thought enough of Timmy and us to go visit his site periodically. They asked about the bench, how and where we got it, and I told them how the marble under the marker was special ordered from our contractor in WI.

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We four ladies talked at some length, mostly about available property, when I told Dorothy and the others where I live. They got quite excited because only the day before Helen mentioned that she would like to live at Club Continental!! How ironic they run into me today! I told Helen about the units in my building and those on the compound with waterfront views. If they had not just eaten a late breakfast, we could have come over here to have lunch at The Club and look at my place, to whet her appetite. Good thing they did not come because my house needs a good dusting and I have wash baskets in my bedroom....

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When we parted company, I went to get my new tires at Sun Tire, next door to Aron's Pizza. It seems that my car has anything but 'ordinary' tires, hence, an extraordinary purchase! Justin's tires cost just over $500 and I expected mine to be about the same but it seems that is not the case. My 'deal' came with lifetime tire replacement if they are destroyed and lifetime rotate/balance for the tires. Oooh, I HATE those type of things but I surrendered and bought the extra coverage. UGH! Having the oil change thrown in softened the blow a bit but I still feel slightly victimized, as often happens at the hands of those who take care of our cars! When checking out, I asked the guy at the desk what kind of vehicles actually use the standard tires they sell, and he pointed to a Saturn up on the rack, and said, "That car takes standard...." 'Nuff said, I want the extraordinary ones, thank you!

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While my car was being work on and I was being worked over (ha, ha!), I was able to enjoy one of Aron's fine Stromboli and read a book. I had forgotten to grab the WI book from my bed but fortunately I had a book in the car from Bible study, "The Theology of the Cross". I have owned it about a year now but was intimidated by it, until today. I am loving it, not too deep a read yet at this point, and it filled me up, more than the Stromboli did. The strom was filling but in an entirely different way. I had to call Linda to tell her about what I was reading but she did not answer her phone. Oh well, it will keep!

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"Kramer, I tell you, Elaine doesn't know what she's doing!! I'm going to have to take over this whole operation!!!" Poor Jerry is worried about a marathon runner, hoping he does not again oversleep and miss the race. Jean-Paul overslept 4 years ago and missed the Olympics and Jerry is determined not to let that happen again. This episode is called "The Hot Tub" when Kramer inherits a hot tub which he sets up in his living room. I cannot recall if this is before or after he brings home the set from the old Merv Griffin TV show for his living room....

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My house is smelling good with my supper cooking---meatballs in golden mushroom soup, baked potatoes, and cream-style corn. Mmmm.....this is in contrast to last night's posting about not enjoying cooking. I like to throw something this together and let it do its thing. I can wait...At Aron's I ran into Miss Chardonnay who said the gang might be sitting out tonight since it got nice out today, not quite 70 above but with loads of sunshine. Oh, goodie, sun deck time again! I did take a peek out there and no one was sitting on the deck, but people were being seated on the patio at The Club for a wedding. Very pretty but not quite warm enough for sitting outside on the sun deck.

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The river had boat activity today and I even saw a jet ski scooting around earlier. It looks so pretty out there with the sun beginning to set, casting a pink hue over Mandarin. The envelopes for Joanne are as done as they are going to be, since I ran about 20 short. Rats! She and I are going to connect some time tomorrow for the rest of the envelopes and perhaps even something to put into them! Hopefully Martie can meet me after work tomorrow so we can 'connect' too over some nacho chips and an adult beverage. I hope so anyway, because I miss her like crazy!!!