Gray Saturday Morning, Sunny Afternoon To Come

Spring Rainbow over Lake Chautauqua

We had the Miller's over for dinner last night, Marianne and her son Tom, from State College, PA, where she teaches at Penn State.  We have been wanting to have them over for dinner since they took us out last spring.  She's a widow, her husband Pastor Bob, was diagnosed with brain cancer four years ago, a week after he retired. He lived for a couple of years but now she lives alone, still loves teaching her accounting courses, both during the school year and summers, though she loves the lake too.  She is really a neat woman, energetic, outgoing, at seventy three.  Her son Tom really helps her out, usually comes with her on weekends, takes care of the chores, and he loves talking about sports.  I went out to dinner with him and our neighbor Ken Schultz and their son Kenny in February, and we had a great time talking about the good old days.

We went for a walk late yesterday afternoon, stopped at the Seezuhr House for a beer, but it was so crowed we decided to come home.  As we drove to our house, we saw the Miller's had just arrived.  We were having New York strips for dinner, had two extra, so we decided to see if the Miller's wanted to come over because we new they would be going out to eat after unpacking.  They were thrilled to come, and Evie started cooking up a few extras, cheesy cauliflower, baked potatoes, a salad, and I grilled the steaks and all was great.  We had a great time, as they left around 9:30.

We had a bit of rain over night but I talked with Bud Kinney, a neighbor, this morning, and last night when they drove from Cleveland, he went through the most severe rainstorm he had ever been in, heavy rains and sleet, just outside of Ashtabula, so we were lucky to avoid that.