Hello on Monday Morning

Dear Friends,
We had another pleasant day on Sunday. After we both got through reading the
local newspaper , and the Boston Globe, we prepared for our final James Taylor
event at Tanglewood. We loaded up the car with food, beverages, and chairs a
small table, and headed back to West Stockbridge to caravan for the last James
Taylor concert. The weather was perfect. It was so nice to just be with one
other couple instead of the 20 or so that we were with on Friday night in the
pouring rain.
The first half of the concert started with John Williams. This was the
classical music portion of the program. The second half was really what most of
the thousands of us were waiting for, and that was to hear the music of James
Taylor. We got our monies worth for sure. James Taylor played way beyond the
normal amount of time for what would be considered half of a concert. He had the
15000 of us on the lawn rocking with the 5000 seated in the open air shed.
When the concert came to an end we stayed until the last bit of beverages were
consumed. We stopped at the East side on the way home, and picked up a pizza to
go. We would have sat down and ate the pizza at the East Side, but the place was
mobbed for a Sunday night.

Today is the start of another busy week. I will be helping Linda shortly to set
up for tonight's BONCO session which Linda is hosting.
Tomorrow she is hosting her Tuesday Mah Jongg session because the original host
has not been feeling well.
Wednesday, Linda has a meeting just about the time our daughter-in-law, and her
new born comes to the Berkshires from East Boston for a two day visit.
Friday is my golf with the seniors.
Saturday evening, we are going to a play.
Sunday we will be attending a Labor Day picnic.

It might be time for Linda and I to go somewhere where we have no commitments,
no cell phone or no computer access, etc.
We will have to work on that thought.

Sports -- The Red Sox and the Yankees won their contests once again. The Sox
seem to have a firm grip on the Wild Card slot.

Politics -- The President didn't have a completely relaxing week on Cape Cod
with the death of Ted Kennedy. At least he was close to where the funeral took
place. It is back to work for the President today.

Observation -- We are so lucky to be surrounded by such a wonderful circle of
friends. Each set of friends seem to serve a different set of needs / options.
As an example, the couple from West Stockbridge is the only other couple who
really likes the music of James Taylor so that is why we were pretty much were
at their door step every day this past weekend. We can't socialize with this
couple all of the time because the wife owns a woman's specialty store, and her
weekends are normally not free. Her husband is a department head in the
Mathematics department at a Berkshire County high school.
Another couple whom we socialize with has grownup children like we do. Even
though they both work, they are free to do a lot of things with us. The woman is
Linda's permanent shopping buddy.
Another couple, who lives a few doors north of us, I can call up for an
impromptu cookout. I play golf with the husband. Since they have a one year old
granddaughter, Linda and I can also borrow baby stuff too when our grandchildren
come to visit.
My immediate next door neighbors watch our house when we are out of town, and
they to get invited to impromptu cookouts at our house.
We also have friends in a neighboring town who sets up a Cook Outs / Bocci
tournaments at their house several times during the summer months. They keep on
inviting us to visit them in Florida during the winter months, and we might do
so this winter.
We have our friends from Tewksbury who we not only visit , but use their house
like a Bed and Breakfast place.

Linda also has her two sets of Mah Jongg players.

We have more friends from all the clubs and organizations which we belong to.
This list goes on, and on, and I haven't even included family.

I think that a life without having friends would be so sad.
We have no time for illnesses like depression because we never have time to sit
and put negative thoughts in our head.

Have to get to more chores.
Linda has started to straighten out the house, make some desserts, and she
needs my help.
Have a great week at work, play, or school.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad