Scattered Thoughts . . .

We had a really nice time with friends this weekend! We knew we were heading to Tom and Karen's for a floating party and we knew it would be hot in the sun so I prepared my health by loading up on extra medications in the preceding days. Fortunately, that worked fairly well. My biggest problem was fighting overwhelming fatigue... I could not keep my eyes open! Overall, however, I have no complaints. It was a really nice weekend spent with Sheila and friends. We had missed Tom and Karen's wedding last month because my health wouldn't cooperate so it was nice to be able to spend some time with them this weekend. Plus, this was our first opportunity to be  able to give them their wedding gift... finally! Their wedding gift had been sitting on our mantle in our living since June. The weather was quite warm on Saturday and, as many readers here already know, typically I do not do well in any environments warmer than about 80 degrees. Tom and Karen's backyard on That

Sheila celebrated another birthday this weekend. Well... actually... Sheila's had about a month of birthday celebration since she started receiving her gifts almost a month ago!  We attended a nice little dinner party at Tom and Karen's on Saturday evening. It was a beautiful weekend so we spent some time out on Tom and Karen's big new deck... then we moved inside and had a really nice dinner. As is the case at every one of Tom's dinner parties, the food was delicious. It was a fun time... and, after months of being quite sick (Sheila, as well), it was nice to socialize and laugh a bit. Actually, we laughed a lot! It was a really fun time! On Sunday (which was Sheila's true birthdate), the weather was even more beautiful than the beautiful weather we had on Saturday... bright, sunny and temperatures hovering close to 70 degrees all day... so we got some yardwork and housework accomplished before Tom and Karen visited us with a present for Sheila. As we were pr