Home again

My flight arrived slightly late on Tuesday evening but it wasn't too bad.  MaryR had agreed to pick me up and we've been doing airport duty for each other for decades.  We were both starving so we headed to Double D's sports bar in Los Gatos and ate a very nice pasta and salad dinner.

MaryR dropped me off at the house--it was really, really empty.  The dogs were still boarding at the vets so it was just me and the silence. I fixed that quickly by loading my iPod into one of our speaker sets and playing the songs Mary and I both loved.  In Minnesota while driving, it was pretty much Van Morrison that I played, in particular, "Brown Eyed Girl", "Have I told you lately (that I love you)", "Moondance", "Whenever God shines his light", and our wedding march, "Bright Side of the Road." (Click here for lyrics).

I have since switched to Eric Clapton. Mary fell in love with his work when he was with Cream performing "Sunshine of Your Love."  Over time, his music has meant a lot and we played "Alberta" to begin and "Tears in Heaven" to end Mary's burial last Saturday.

Wednesday was busy. I had an appointment with the lawyer to discuss what needed to be done for the trusts.  Made a quick run to Costco to return a bluetooth earpiece that hurt when I put it into my ear.  Picked up my new glasses--I don't need them except when I want exceptionally sharp distance vision--and dropped off two sets of frames to be configured into new sunglasses and golf glasses.  Golf glasses?  Yup, no bifocal or progressive or whatever. All that does is distort the green while putting. Golf glasses are distance vision only. 

Picked up Shawna and Idjit Dawgs and they seemed no worse for wear having spent a week at the vet's kennel.  Finally, met MaryR at my car dealer as I had to drop off my Jaguar because of a not nice noise the engine was making while cold.  All that took into the evening hours so fixed myself a simple dinner and plopped to watch TV.  TiVo had recorded one of my favorites, Top Gear on BBC (click on the name).  Although Mary wouldn't watch the show if I wasn't there, she enjoyed the antics of these three British blokes and their dumb stunts with cars when I did watch it. 

Today I start the planning in earnest for the May 8 celebration.  I will be using evite to send invitations so I can plan food and drink quantities.  If you don't get an invitation by end of day tomorrow, let me know and I'll be sure to get it to you.  If there are people you think should be there, please let them know how to reach me so we can add them to the guest list!