Saturday, September 25, 2021
I set my alarm for 6 a.m. today, so I was very sleepy. But I turned on the coffee pot and started my morning routine. I logged on to the Keto Symposium that I already knew I couldn’t see very much of, since “all day” to them meant 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. I caught a little of Kristina Hess and Jimmy Moore and a half hour of Maria Emmerich, and that was it.
I kept checking my phone for a text from Lisa but never got one. Aaron, Lisa, and Alex just showed up at 10 o’clock (as we had planned), but I had just finished preparing breakfast for Linda and Emily and myself. So I sat down and ate anyway while talking to the kids. They brought brisket and cooked white rice for Linda. Alex had brought a bag full of toy ducks, 9 or 10 in all, and wanted to show me all of them. So he was barely aware when Lisa and Aaron left.
He busied himself with his imaginative play. Thunderstorms (I think from “Back to the Future”) and getting all the animals into the “barn” (Barley’s old cave bed). He stopped once or twice to have a snack from his snack bag. Then I got him interested in drawing on the white board that I got from Walgreen’s this month and he drew some letters and then some ducks.
When he seemed to get tired of playing inside, around noon I suggested we could go for our walk and see the ducks in the duck pond by the clubhouse. He had his Strider bike, so I got Emily and we started off. He had his favorite duck and Chewey (my ty plushie) in his bike basket.
When we got back, he had more snacks, then we watched a funny cat and dog video on Lisa’s Kindle that she had left for him. Lisa and Aaron came back about 1:30 and they left about 1:40.
I had already seen that the Kettering organ concert would, indeed, be live streamed, so I logged on about 10 minutes early to wait. There was a live chat option so I was the first to comment. Then Rosie, then Arlene Taylor.
The concert was two hours long and had been carefully planned and curated. Of course, I already knew what was coming because David had told me in detail when we talked last Monday. (During the intermission, I found the PDF of the printed program, thanks to Linda.) Linda watched it from her bed, and she said Emily was enjoying the concert, too.
Afterwards, we had supper of the tri-tips and rice (Linda and Emily), a perfect ending to a perfect day.
I am considering exploring the possibility of the Kettering Adventist Church online being my new church community. More on that later.
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