Hello on Sunday Morning

Dear Friends,

The heat and humidity finally took a break for a few days here in Kansas. The cool down started after we woke up from our afternoon nap.
When we depart on Tuesday afternoon, it will be back in the 90’s.

I went to find a mixture for the drink that I was making myself while Mike was with his family at a birthday party. I looked in the refrigerator, and saw a bottle of red stuff. I read the label before pouring it into my beverage. It was humming bird food red sugar water. It wouldn’t have killed me, but I would have felt bad taking food from the birds.

After the grandchildren went to bed last evening, we decided to play cribbage. The team of Fran & Danielle, beat the team of Mike and Linda. After winning two games in a row, we called it a night. Since Linda and I both had naps, we weren’t as tired as Mike & Danielle.

We chatted with our Berkshire County friends, by way of the cell phone, who were having a cookout without Linda and I. They were having grilled salmon and chicken for supper as well as different appetizers, and desserts. The hosts had a houseful of guests.
When our house gets back to normal, we will host a party too.

I read the Sunday newspaper already. They had a front page article of a person who spent time in the military who claimed to have all these service medals, and he was proven to be a fraud. They almost named some building after the guy until this group investigated all of his claims. They actually found the deceased Veteran who actually did earn most of the medals legitimately. This is one of worse kind of identity thefts that a person can engage in.

I am not sure what we have planned for us in Kansas today. As of last evening, we wanted today to be a lazy hazy day of summer. With the decrease in humidity, those plans could change.

Sports – The Red Sox pitcher John Lester pitched a pretty good game last evening, but the final score was not in favor of the Red Sox.
The local newspapers are relishing in the fact that the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees yesterday.
The local papers are also talking a lot about the upcoming Kansas City Chiefs Football season. Every team has high hopes until they break the hearts of the local fans.
I see where two teams are interested in Terrell Owens. Good luck to the team who gets him. I was sort of hoping that the Patriots were interested.
I also see where the wife of the former Steers’ coach, Bill Cowher, died of skin cancer. She was a couple years shy of the 60 year old mark.

I have been reading the Berkshire Eagle on line during our stay in Kansas. It is the same old same old back in the Berkshires.
The craziness in our social lives starts as soon as we get back to the Berkshires. I don’t want to think about all the things that I am involved. We might have some free days during the middle of each week, but there a very few free weekends. We are starting to book into September and October already. We have friends who don’t even know what an appointment book is, but this is not true for Linda and me.

I was perusing a restaurant guide yesterday for the Kansas City area. I have never seen so many steak and Barbecue places concentrated in one area. Living in Kansas would be a meat lovers’ paradise. The obituaries do indicate that eating red meat so often might be a problem.

Well, I have to grab a second cup of coffee, and read a couple of books to Isabelle. Her mom and me are the only adults up right now.
Have a great Sunday.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad