Monday Morning

It is 7:30 a.m. and I have been up for an hour and a half. I am waiting now for Mac to finish cooking a nice breakfast for me: sausage, red potatoes, eggs, toast and tea. I have a nice life. I have been working on the diagramless crossword puzzles that Jeanne Foster sends me from Florida. I love them. They are my favorite kind of puzzle and so hard to find.

I also played ball for quite a while with our new dog Rascal after walking him around in the yard a bit. We haven't let him off leash yet so I haven't gotten to play ball outside with him yet but I am really looking forward to it. Being part cocker, he is a great retreiver. Being part Shelty he is a bit too loud for Florida where we live on top of people. I hope we can quiet his warning barks a little.

Yesterday I found out that I can fly a lot cheaper now that I am a senior citizen(65). I was looking up prices for flights to New York in July for Sean's 40th birthday bash. I looked up adult prices first, forgetting that I had a birthday, and then it came to me to check out whether I qualified for senior fares and I did!!! I am still glowing. This is the best senior discount yet and I really need it. Being retired gives me all kinds of time to buy things and go places and not enough money for all the things I want to do. Also--not being an adult any more gives me all kinds of freedom to act any way I want--not that I needed anyone's permission.

I was on the deck around 7:00 last night (Our favorite time of the week when all of the weekenders have left for home and their jet skis are quieted.) and saw the first sailboat of the year. I think the water is still too cold for me to try sailing but maybe I'll give it a go in my wet suit next week.

We are spending this weekend (starting Thursday) in Kingsley. Brady's birthday is Thursday and then Mother's Day is Sunday. We are going up in two cars and leaving the camper there as we are going up again for Brady's Grandparent day in Kindergarten two weeks from now. We will probably be babysitting here for the Memorial day weekend as Eddie and Sherry want to do some more house hunting in Wisconsin. The last weekend of May, I will be in Ann Arbor playing a lot of bridge and catching up with my girlfriends down there. Roz might even have a party Friday night. This is going to be a busy summer.