That's the way it was and this is the way it is!
October 30, 1959
It is Friday and Mom and Dad are gone. It sounded like there was some kind of camera club event that they went to. Dad took several things so I am guessing it is one of those times that members show pictures and then everyone critics it. Dad loves this meetings as he shares, it may all be true, that his pictures always get rave comments. I know Dad's photography skills are very good so why would I tend to question? Regardless Dave and I have a plan. It has been some time since we had Mom's canned peaches. She canned many quarts in September but has been kind of stingy in allowing us to enjoy. She claims they should be eaten on special occasions but we feel EVERY day is special! Joan tells me I should not go into the cellar as she knows our minds! Dave opens the cellar door and I grab the flashlight and descend down the wooden stairs. As I get to the bottom there is a slimy green lizard staring and almost daring me to take a quart. With my left hand I shoo it away and it scampers behind the pickle jars. I carefully take a quart, bring the behind jar to the front as I THINK that will fool Mom! With jar in hand I scamper up the stairs before I see any more little creatures. As Dave and I devour the entire quart (Joan wants none as she thinks Mom will find out and she can claim innocents) I know that Dave left the cellar door open as it will be my job to return the empty jar to its place on the shelf. So ends our delicious endeavor which will last us only until tomorrow as we will go trick or treating and get candy!
October 30, 2019 (Time changes things)
I roll over in bed and look at my phone for the time. My clock is placed on a pool chair as it fell to the floor two days ago and the batteries fell out. After I put them back in the time was wrong and this darn clock corrects itself by satellite but, that satellite must have missed us as the time is still incorrect. Anyway my phones shows 5:35 and I know I will not go back to sleep. I quietly get out of bed and shuffle out of the bedroom in order to not wake Terry. I put a pot of water on so that I can make my FP and then I am out the door to grab the Naples paper and the WSJ. I return to the kitchen to get things ready for breakfast. The vase on the table goes onto the counter by the door and the table cloth comes off so that I do not spill on it. I need to vary breakfast so this morning it is 3 small chicken sausage heated and cut up. Then kalamata olives cut in half. After taking out the sausage I spray some oil in the pan and pour the beat up eggs, with heavy cream in. The olives and sausage goes in next and then it is stir and stir. About 30 seconds before the eggs are ready I sprinkle cheddar cheese and mix it up. Breakfast is ready. I decided to skip the toast this morning as that may help me lose weight! I place the plate on the table and spread 2 heaping T of salsa over the eggs. There, I am ready to eat and read the papers! As I finish eating and open the fridge door to put the salsa away I notice the jar of canned peaches in the fridge. Oh yes, those would taste delicious this morning. Cousin Annette gave me about 6 or 8 pints a couple of years ago and I have saved some. The pint jar comes out and I enjoy the savory taste of canned peaches as kind of a dessert to my eggs. I think this will be a good day and I didn't even have to go into the lizard invested cellar to get the peaches!!!
Our second team match is today at home. When we hit the court at 1:30 the weather on my phone shows it should be 91 but the humidity should be a bit lower than in the past few days. Again I have NO grand plans that we will win one, two, three courts or none. My focus today is to get Ken on the court for the first time, get Greg on court 2 from court 3 and for me to play on court 1 for the first time. What ever happens will happen. I will remember to drink, an hour before play, 16 oz of that liquid IV as I think that helps. I do need to drive to Walgreen this morning as I thought I had soda for today but I did not. I am excited to have Terry come today. I like her to come to the matches and she missed last week because of house repair that was supposed to happen.
The match today will pretty much take up most of the day. I need to write my lineup and then make sure the balls, soda, snacks and beer are ready to go. I KNOW that I will be drained after the match. Heat or no heat if a friendly 90 minute match is on a energy draining level of 5 (a scale of 1-10 with 10 being REALLY tired) a league match is at least a 9. So it may be that the match is over about 3:00, fellowship until 3:20 or so and home by 3:30. THEN perhaps a dip in the pool to cool off. I realize that the kind of life I live I do not deserve but I have it and will enjoy it!
The last sip of FP was cold!
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