Catching Up: News from the ‘Hood…and Beyond
Been doing a lot of catching up with people and events this week-end. There is much coming and going in the neighborhood during the summer, as people take turns being gone on vacations. Karl and Anavela and their kids just got back from Ireland. Jim and Susan and Nora are off to Iceland in a few days. And we have new people on the block, Brenda and Jenny, who bought Tom and Amy’s house. They moved down from the Upper West Side of New York, where they lived about 20 blocks from the Beacon and to Jim’s surprise and delight, usually had even attended one of the annual Allman Brothers March concerts there. They seem very congenial, and I think they will make good neighbors.
Our little friend Charlotte returned from Arizona yesterday with her grandparents, who will stay here for a week or so and babysit during the day for Anja and Bill while they are at work. Charlotte was gone for two weeks with her grandparents "all by myself" and reports she had a wonderful time. She went on "one of the world’s biggest roller coasters," at Leggo Land, with her grandfather when they went to San Diego. She’s already got it going on again with Jim, as she saw him coming back from kayaking this afternoon and raced out onto the porch to let him know she was back. I don’t expect they’ll have much time to play, though, until her grandparents leave next week.
Will, my Neighborhood Watch Block Co-Captain and I, have very important block business to discuss, such as when to have the block party this fall and when we should start collecting signatures to close the street, etc., so he and his wife Ellen and the Goofy One and I are going to have dinner together this evening at Arucola. It’s another beautiful day today, so we’ll probably be able to sit outside on the patio.
In news beyond the block, it looks like our friends Stephanie and Chuck will be able to finally take baby Florin home from the hospital either tomorrow or early this week. She will be near to four pounds. Talk about your miracles. That sure seems to have been one. You can read it all for yourself at http://www.florincecily.blogspot.com/
And I talked with my mother and my brother, Uncle Grandpa, as Sarah calls Tom, for the first time since their birthdays in June. Mom says there's not much to tell as she "doesn't have a life," but she will be going to Alaska in August for two weeks with Sister Little and her whole family, so I'm thinking she really does. And U.G., though he's fully recovered from the back surgery this winter, developed another hopefully minor problem or two, for which he is receiving chiropractic treatment. As long as it doesn't interfere with golf! I heard from Mom that John, Sarah's dad, arrived safely from Montana yesterday afternoon and that all the adults were going to go out for dinner tonight to celebrate S.L.'s and Terry's wedding anniversary. I think it's their 11th. I left a singing anniversary message on their answering machine yesterday, but in case they didn't get it, Happy Anniversary, again, you two!
Our little friend Charlotte returned from Arizona yesterday with her grandparents, who will stay here for a week or so and babysit during the day for Anja and Bill while they are at work. Charlotte was gone for two weeks with her grandparents "all by myself" and reports she had a wonderful time. She went on "one of the world’s biggest roller coasters," at Leggo Land, with her grandfather when they went to San Diego. She’s already got it going on again with Jim, as she saw him coming back from kayaking this afternoon and raced out onto the porch to let him know she was back. I don’t expect they’ll have much time to play, though, until her grandparents leave next week.
Will, my Neighborhood Watch Block Co-Captain and I, have very important block business to discuss, such as when to have the block party this fall and when we should start collecting signatures to close the street, etc., so he and his wife Ellen and the Goofy One and I are going to have dinner together this evening at Arucola. It’s another beautiful day today, so we’ll probably be able to sit outside on the patio.
In news beyond the block, it looks like our friends Stephanie and Chuck will be able to finally take baby Florin home from the hospital either tomorrow or early this week. She will be near to four pounds. Talk about your miracles. That sure seems to have been one. You can read it all for yourself at http://www.florincecily.blogspot.com/
And I talked with my mother and my brother, Uncle Grandpa, as Sarah calls Tom, for the first time since their birthdays in June. Mom says there's not much to tell as she "doesn't have a life," but she will be going to Alaska in August for two weeks with Sister Little and her whole family, so I'm thinking she really does. And U.G., though he's fully recovered from the back surgery this winter, developed another hopefully minor problem or two, for which he is receiving chiropractic treatment. As long as it doesn't interfere with golf! I heard from Mom that John, Sarah's dad, arrived safely from Montana yesterday afternoon and that all the adults were going to go out for dinner tonight to celebrate S.L.'s and Terry's wedding anniversary. I think it's their 11th. I left a singing anniversary message on their answering machine yesterday, but in case they didn't get it, Happy Anniversary, again, you two!
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