Scattered Thoughts . . .

W e were in Portsmouth two weeks ago for Sheila's mom's burial at sea and it was a nice, and exceedingly rare, weekend out-of-town.  My health is caused us to cancel many, many planned weekends out-of-town over the past four years.   This was our second visit to this historic New England coastal city so we had a pretty good idea of the things we wanted to do.  We've always planned to visit this city again and this burial at sea provided us with this opportunity. On our first night in town, we went for a walk around the downtown area and even walked across the Memorial Bridge into Kittery, Maine.  We did the same when we were here the first time about ten years ago and this was something we really wanted to do again especially since the weather was beautiful.  This walk was really nice and I ended up with many photos. As a lifelong student of architecture, I have to say that this city is quite beautiful with a lot of character... I have a few photos in this blog entry of The

W e arrived back home from our weekend in Portsmouth yesterday afternoon.  The three hour drive was uneventful but Sheila has been sick since shortly before arriving home.   At first we thought she might have a stomach virus but now we aren't sure if it's a stomach virus or COVID or even a result of some bad food.  She is feeling rather poorly and hasn't eaten since breakfast in Portsmouth yesterday morning.  We both tested for COVID this morning and we tested negative but that doesn't mean much since these home tests are known to be highly inaccurate indicating negative results when the person is really infected with the virus.   We'll continue testing and we'll see what happens.  Hopefully, she'll feel like eating something by dinnertime tonight.  (...and, hopefully, be able to hold it down.) On our last night in Portsmouth, we went to an ice cream shop two doors down from our apartment right after dinner at a nice restaurant on Bow Street.  The restaurant