Island Update Ending August 24, 2003

Here I am with another week already. On Monday Mom and Lauren went to town. I stayed home and did some bush/tree trimming/clearing. Very quiet day. Tuesday I took the computer to Pierre's of Exchange Street. Kind of a neat name and certainly a well used shop. I padded one of the carts and pushed it on up there, up because it is all uphill. I walked back to our parking lot (this time all down hill) to take the car and see if by some slim chance I could get the A/C fixed. Friday was the best I could do, too late. Took the car back to the lot, walked back to Pierre's, picked up the computer and back to Peaks on the 1415. Mom and Lauren missed my phone call so I walked home. More walking today than I have done in weeks. I couldn't get the computer to log on and even the store tried to talk me through it so the solution is to take it back tomorrow. Hot day today and a fan night tonight.

Wednesday I caught the 0815 with the computer only this time I drove it to Pierre's. Back to the parking lot, got a cup of coffee and then met Mom and Lauren on the 0945. Also met Jeanne and Dick. They all went shopping and Dick and I went to a tent tool sale at the Mall. The place was packed, lines long and super hot so we left to find something cool to drink. Met the shoppers at noon and proceeded to the hair dresser's in South Portland where Mom and Jeanie got their haircut. Then we were off to Two Lights for lunch on the shore. That is kind of a fun place to go and lots of people do. This turned out to be another fan night.

Thursday we all caught the 0715 to take Lauren to Manchester to catch her flight to Baltimore. The trip over and at the airport went like clockwork and Southwest couldn't have been nicer. Mom got to go with Lauren while I stayed outside the "mighty" secure area, drank coffee and read the newspaper. The trip back was a bit slower because of road construction. Temperatures ranged for 91 to 88 with a couple very short cool spots of 84. Anyway, it was a hot drive with no A/C. We were going through Portsmouth, halfway home, and figured Lauren was already in Baltimore. There is something wrong with that. The distance from our parking lot to that in Manchester is exactly 100 miles. We stopped for Chinese and caught the 1515 boat back to Peaks. It turned out to be another fan night.

We stayed at home on Friday for a change. We had a nice breeze at the house. I was docent at the 5th and the breeze was from the wrong direction there so it was hot. We weren't too busy so I did some physical work on a day when it was really too hot. Mom cleaned house. It looked rather good when I got home. This was a borderline fan night so we used it. Saturday was a quiet day. It was the Art Festival day, but we elected not to go this year. This afternoon was the Fifth Regiment Civil War Day with various goings on. We went to one presentation. This was a windy, bright, clear, low humidity day at long last. Mom washed our sheets, hung them out and they were back on the bed in an hour and a half.

Today (Sunday) was 0815 Mass followed by a delicious breakfast at home. We were off to town on the 1245 on this beautiful cool day to meet Jeanne and Dick to go to the theater to see Triple Espresso, a comedy. It was very good and very funny. Then we had dinner at a rather interesting place called Bibo's Madd Apple, right next door. It was very good also. Not quite my type of food, but I did enjoy it. Then we were back on the 1915 and here I am.

For those of you who haven't heard, which may be almost everyone but Stephen, Aunt Mary and Uncle Walter have moved into a new apartment. The apartment number is now 122 vice 117 just down the hall on the same side of the building. I know the numbers don't fit, but that's the way it is. Nothing else changes but the Apt. #. It is a 2 bedroom, 2 bath place. Hooray! Hooray!

I guess that is about the best I can do for this week.

Love, Mom and Dad