Linda's here!

After a long day, especially for Linda, we are settled in our rooms and ready for sleep. Linda arrived on schedule, flawless traveling for her, thankfully. The only downside was a grumpy man seated next to her on the 2nd leg of the journey but hey, that's okay. His loss because he was out of sorts. It was the shortest flight of the day so it wasn't so bad but I know it's hard when the person in the next seat is unpleasant. But the ride to MKE went well, she got the car securely parked, got the shuttle to the airport, arranged for her wheel chair ride to the gates in each airport and settled in. Love when it all works out!

As for me, I had a meeting this late morning/early afternoon at The Club. The Republican Women's group had a speaker from the Secret Service who discussed one of the important aspects of their business (not only protecting the elected officials) which includes identity theft. That discussion left me feeling quite uneasy when he reported all the ways this affects people. Yikes! After the meeting, I asked him about the recent interlopers at the White House and he admitted it was embarrassing for the 'Service'. He went on to explain that the most recent case where the man got into the White House was not as bad as it seemed. The man was known to the agents, was a 'regular' person of interest to them. The decision was made to not sic the dogs on him on the WH lawn and also to not shoot him on the front porch in plain sight of people. I accept his explanation but we'll see what the press does with all this.

This afternoon when Linda and I were done watching The Five we walked over to The Club for Happy Hour. A few of my neighbors were there and we joined their table. Justin was making dinner for us so I wasn't going to order an appetizer but when the waiter said they were offering batter-dipped onion rings tonight, well, I gave in!  Oh, my! They were just wonderful---better than the strings I normally order. Linda and I shared the order and I offered some to my table mates as well. Only a couple people helped themselves. 

Our dinner was home-made chicken cordon bleu and was simply delicious. He uses a rotisserie chicken and then adds the other meat and ingredients. In no time at all he's got it put together and tastes great. We have enough leftovers from that for another meal this week. I hope we are home enough to enjoy it! We watched Jeopardy! together and then some Fox News and other shows before going to bed. Linda is setting her alarm to wake her for the sunrise in the morning. I hope she gets to see a nice one for her trouble!