Confessions of a Grandma

It was warm today...60 degrees! When we are in Florida for the winter I will complain mightily about the frigid weather when the temperature is in the 60's there. All is relative. I took an extra long walk today to compensate for the recent bad weather and my own recent slothfulness. I walked to Jericho Center and around the green, stopping to drop off a book at our library and then to mail our property tax payment at the box outside the general store, then taking my usual loop: Brown's Trace to Barber Farm road to Fitzsimonds Road back to Brown's Trace. There are several new highway signs put up in the past few days--"Yield to pedestrians in crosswalk" (seven cars drove by in rapid succession while I stood at the crosswalk) and yellow signs alerting drivers to side roads (most with fairly inventive spellings and/or questionable grammar). By the way, it really annoys me when people automatically add "Road" to my address on Brown's Trace. "Trace...

The ghosties are coming. The goblins are gathering. The witches are tuning up their brooms. WATCH OUT!!!

Several gloomy, dark, rainy days in a row have sent me back to some projects that have been on the back burner. I bought some self-striping yarn to make socks for my grand son. I was determined to do this little project (for little feet) on circular needles--something that I have been unable to accomplish previously. It took seven tries to get started and keep the pointed ends of the needles going in the right direction, but I think I finally have got the right rhythm. I'm sure I'll be back to trying to figure it all out again when I start sock number two. The other project is a shirt I made out of silk I bought on sale--a shirt with a collar and cuffs and button holes. The cuffs are what killed me because they go on opposite sides so somehow they should be mirror images and that is near to impossible for me to figure out--pinning, checking, basting, checking, praying, sewing--very nerve wracking. I know there are people for whom these kinds of perceptual tasks are just as...

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Kristen has started Karate lessons and just earned her red belt. She was very excited. This seems like a very good program. It is a lot of exercise, physical and mental. She had to complete the routine, write and an essay about what she has learned from Karate and how it applies to the rest of her life, and get a recommendation from her teacher attesting to her academic efforts and behavior in school. She takes it seriously but also is having great fun. This is a look of self-esteem.

My brother-in-law's surgery went well. He was making jokes straight out of the recovery room and has been up and walking. The one aggravation was his roommate's wife who apparently is a loud and nonstop talker with a cell phone attached to her ear like an earring. Rude people really do suck. The nurses got on finding him a new room, though, so he can now get some needed rest in between his joggings down the hall. Thanks for the prayers. (PhotoXpress)

I am not particularly religious, but there certainly is a time for prayers, however one chooses to experience them, and this is one of those times. My sister and her husband have arrived in NYC. Wayne has had a recurrence of cancer after a five year remission and will have surgery tomorrow. To me, prayer is gratitude and positive energy...so I am grateful that his doctor has the reputation as the best.