Diaries

House cleaning chores this morning. Al be here in a little while to swap places with me again. I am going down to Winston to have dinner with Nancy and Betsy this evening. Be back home tomorrow.

Partly cloudy today and very warm. The wind has picked up as well bringing, yes, more rain tonight and tomorrow.

Gym and grocery store this morning after making another stop at the clerk of court office first thing to finish up what I needed to do to file the estate documents. I’ve spent the afternoon handling more estate stuff with my attorney and the bank.

After a another rainy morning the sun has come out. Temperatures are in the mid 50’s.

I had a good trip down to Winston yesterday. I ran several errands before getting to Frances and Al’s. At 5pm Frances and I left in separate cars to meet Bonnie for dinner at Mid Town Cafe. From there Frances went home and I followed Bonnie to Reynold’s Auditorium for the Winston-Salem symphony Plugged-In- Pops program featuring the Steep Canyon Ranger; an excellent group of musicians from North Carolina. They put on a fabulous show.

I headed back up the mountain about 9:15 this morning. Al left about 11:30. After 2 1/2 months of stress and grief dealing with Bob’s illness and death it was good for me to escape reality for a couple of hours and enjoy myself.

Thankfully it has been warm this weekend. We’ve had 2 inches of rain in Sparta with another inch to fall today. I am sure Winston has had at least an inch plus.

Gym and assorted other errands this morning. I’ve vacuumed, dusted, and cleaned the bathrooms. It’s a nice day with temperatures in the upper 40’s, sunny, and not much wind. Rain is coming in tonight and staying for the weekend.

Al is coming up in the morning so I can go down to Winston tomorrow afternoon. My friend has symphony tickets. She and I will attend then I will stay over with Frances and come back home on Sunday.

After a chilly start to the day it has warmed up to the low 40’s but, of course, we have the wind. David from the Echo Ridge Astronomical Society came this morning. They are just over the NC/VA line not far from us in Independence, VA. I met his wife through our Friends of the Library. Their club has done a couple of programs for the library.

Astronomy was another thing Bob and I did for about ten years. He wrote several books on the topic. We spent a lot of time observing but Bob sort of lost interest especially after that initial bout of vertigo making it hard to observe. We then became so busy with the kit business we just did not have time.

I too have lost interest and hate for the equipment to just sit there in the garage gathering dust. Their club has several members who come to their meeting but cannot afford equipment.

Once he left I pulled everything out of the garage freezer to defrost and to take inventory of what I have and what I need for next Costco run. While the freezer was defrosting I worked on the garage organizing stuff and utilizing the space vacated by the astronomy stuff.