Hello on Thursday Morning

Dear Friends,

We had another pleasant day on Wednesday. We left the house around 11:15 AM to help set up for the REAM Meeting. The meeting went very well. The guest speaker from the Norman Rockwell Museum, Tom Daly, made an excellent power point presentation. The only negative of the couple hour meeting was that the food was cold.
During the meeting we had our usual raffles. The guest speaker, who was sitting at our table, won a prize. Linda won two prizes. She won a magnum of Pinot Grigio, but donated the money prize back to a foundation which helps needy elder retired teachers. Linda has won prizes at almost all these luncheons. The people who attend the function are starting to look at the head table kind of funny thinking that the raffle might be fixed, especially since I am President of our local chapter.

The head waitress was a Curley (by marriage) at the Country Club, but not related to our family. She said that she is constantly asked if she is related to “Fran Curley.” I would bet that her husband is related. When I did a little family research before one of my cousins did a whole family tree, I found that the Curley Patriarch, Bernard, came to the Berkshires with a Patrick Curley. They both worked in woolen mills when they first arrived, and they lived in the same Berkshire County town. Patrick got married and started his own family just like, my great, great, Grandfather Bernard. There has to be a connection!

We did come home directly after the luncheon, and I took a two hour nap. I slept right through the Red Sox losing an afternoon game. I was well rested to watch a Boston Bruin team go down to defeat. I wasn’t a happy camper when I went to bed.

Linda’s Mah Jogg session went very well. The ladies seemed to all have smiles when they left our house.

Linda is going off to a routine doctor’s appointment at 9 AM. I am going off to a meeting with a neighbor at 10 AM. We are doing a little business for the Annual August UNICO Golf Tournament.

This evening Linda is socially engaged with her girlfriends who are going on their annual Cape Cod trip at the end of June.
I was going to sit home and watch the Celtics, but I just received an invitation to attend a birthday party at the Brew Works Pub. A boyfriend of a Sister City member wants to celebrate the event around 9 PM. Maybe Linda can join us after her all girl event.
Tonight is also the last night for the Pub to function as a restaurant. It will strictly be a Brewery after tonight. Oh Darn!
It appears that I will need an afternoon nap if I am going to be up past 9 PM.
Going to one of these last minute events is another joy of being retired. There is no way that I would be attending a 9 P.M. event if I was still teaching. Life is definitely good!

I couldn’t find anything that jumped out at me with respect to news, and the daily turmoil that takes place. I did like the article that the anti gay minister was forced to resign from the organization he belongs to because he was traveling through Europe with a male escort. The minister says that he is not gay, but !!!!!!

Even though it is foggy and 36 degrees right now, we are supposed to reach the 60 degree mark with sunny skies.

All three grandchildren are doing well. I was especially pleased to learn that the bird feeder that I bought and put out for Isabelle in Kansas is attracting all kinds of beautiful birds. They don’t have to worry about bears like we do here in the Berkshires. I put away my birdfeeders, but once the bears settle down, I am going to put them out once again.

Well, I have to do my morning routine.
I have strict orders to wake Linda up at 7:45 AM for her 9 A.M. appointment.
Maybe she will need a nap so that she can make it through her busy day.

Have a great Thursday!
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad