Warm and Windy Winter Day

It's 41 degrees this morning, about as warm as it's been since November, the sky a stormy gray, so unlike the usual winter sky.  Winds are supposed to be up to 50 miles an hour( I can hear it roaring outside our house), as it's supposed to rain early, then turn to snow as it gets colder.  We head to Ron and Linda's tonight for a Valentines Day dinner, just like last year.  We have not seen them since early January, so it will be fun to see them again.  They'll be up for a couple of weeks.

We had Jack and Roberta Mc Kibben over last night for dinner, a nice evening.  They loved everything Evie made, from fresh guacamole, to chicken with artichokes and mushrooms, to green bean and bacon bundles, to brown rice, salad, and of course, baklava.  Roberta is our age, from Willoughby, and Jack's about 15 years older.  Both are having major health problems, but they seemed in good spirits at least last night.  Roberta is a real talker, so she and Evie get along well.  I pumped Jack about his life, and he filled me in on his playing golf against Arnold Palmer in high school, rooming with Bob Mathias at Kiski Prep, meeting other famous people, working for Alcoa, taking over companies, but much of it was hard to follow.  Interestingly, he never asked me anything about my life.  I seem to attract people like this as I must be a good listener.  They are very involved in the arts in the CI and are trying to get Evie involved in some of the programs.  They are both on their second marriage and have been married for 16 years, the exact number of years they have lived at Chautauqua Shores, the community next to the Institute.  It is literally their back yard.

We just  got back from working out at the Turner Center; it's really ugly out side, the kind of weather that makes you want to head south, drizzle, sleet, slush, dirty snow, icy roads, the worst kind of weather I think.  We much prefer it cold, snowy, even blizzardy to this warming, which turns all the white to  gray, the snow to slush, the roads to ice, later today when it gets colder.  At least it's nice a cosy inside and we don't have to go out till later, to Linda and Ron's for dinner.