Rest, Food, etc....

After that exciting trip down from Raleigh on Friday, Lee and I have spent most of our time recuperating.  I suppose that is a better word than telling you we have been very lazy. Everything we have done during these past three days has been with leisure.  No housework yet!  No Laundry!  No big projects!  Just being lazy and probably consuming way too much food!

On Saturday evening, we collected some of our neighbors and had a pizza feast......then last night we were invited over to Ted & Diane's for Ted's famous oyster stew.  Lee and I waddled home around 7:45 to watch the world series.  We were so loaded with warm milk and crackers that we had to fight to stay awake!  Lee finally woke me,( as I was sitting up sound asleep on the sofa), and told me to go to bed.  I suppose it can be annoying to try to watch a game with someone making sleep noises adjacent to you.  (I will not use the word snoring!)  Anyway I was banished to the bedroom only to discover that bedtime rituals (bathing, brushing teeth, etc. ) brought me back to full awakfulness.  I returned to Lee and was permitted to stay and watch the exciting game with him.  When the game was over, he went to bed.....not me.....I was on full alert!  After trying to read, drinking a little milk and nibbling on peanut butter and cracker, I began to relax and finally was ready to sleep again by midnight.

Needless to say, we slept in this a.m. and enjoyed a late breakfast and leisure time with the newspaper.  I and my neighbor decided to venture out to the Christmas shop in Southport and enjoyed shopping on this beautiful Fall day.  So good to have a friend to share my time with.  Lee found a few small chores to do around the house and was on his own for his lunch.  Each day he is feeling better after the bronch he had last Thursday.  He has finally stopped coughing so much.....still occasionally, but hope it too will subside.  We should get the report from that by Tomorrow.  We are hoping that he is no longer in rejection.

Even though we have had this lovely beach weather, Lee and I have had to limit our time on the beach.  He must use precautions and I have an outbreak of rosecea on my chin.  This happens sometime when I am exposed to the sun, or the chemicals in the sunscreen are too strong.  We are still able to enjoy the breeze from the ocean and to inhale the fresh salty air.  Perhaps we will be able to return later in the week.

We are looking forward to lunch with our former Duke Towers friends on Wednesday and dinner with other friends here on Thursday.  I had purchased some new jeans prior to leaving last week, and if I continue to overeat with little activity, there may be a struggle to fit into them!  In addition to my body making a fast trip South, it is detouring in the worst of places for these jeans!  Old Age.......you have to humor it!

Our return to Vale may be determined by the report from Duke Tomorrow.  At any rate, we will have to return by Monday.  Until then, our days are restful, there is peace and harmony here and we have the exciting baseball game and dancing with the stars tonight.

We wish you peaceful, restful days also.......................

More Later............................................................Brenda