I actually was too cold when I woke up this morning! The windows are open and the computer says it's 64 out; I had to find a bathrobe and slippers.

Yesterday morning Vanessa and I went to Tai Chi--a free class at the hospital. It was fun, with about 100 people on the lawn. It's not strenuous, but is good exercise. It was a little hot and humid by the time we finished at 10:30. Then we went to the Farmers' market to pick up some bread. We said hello to Lisa Lewis there. She is exhausted because this is the time of year there is still a lot to do on the farm, but her husband has started back to work teaching. When I got home, it was too hot for me to do anything outside, but I looked at some recipes to think about cooking for the week to come and had some lunch.

At 3, Dave brought Jeff to the house in his stroller. Jeff just turned 1 on Wednesday. He is a big baby with curly blond hair and blue eyes and a round face. He was almost asleep, but perked up enough to sit on my lap. I gave him a little ball to play with, but he preferred chewing it and I had to take it away again, since little bits of plastic are probably not good for him and his teeth seemed to work really well. He seemed subdued; he didn't cry, but just kind of stared around him. He did have some interest in our bird. After about an hour, we walked him over to Nancy H.'s house, where there was a party for three couples in KR who are celebrating their fiftieth anniversaries: Ray and Nancy, OC and Manita, and Dave and Suzie. Pretty amazing! Jeff was sound asleep and we parked him in a corner and checked on him regularly. His Dad joined us after a bit and before he woke up. The food was very good--excellent shrimp from EarthFare and a wonderful cake from Publix. The Captain and Vanessa came too and after awhile someone thought to ask how long they had been married--61 years! Ray and I--32 years!

Then we went to Janna's for dinner. Amanda was in town briefly. Becky had flown up to DC, they had driven to Athens with a horse and left it here and right now they are driving back up with a different horse and then Becky will fly home again. Crazy! They seemed pretty tired too. Amanda had some good stories, like when she was randomly selected for a lie-detector test because of her government-related job. Her hands were really cold and didn't sweat, which is apparently important for the test, so she had to take it over and over. Dinner was four different salads, kind of like Matt's wedding, which was a few weeks ago. The night before the rehearsal dinner, Janna cooked for everyone, which involved 8 salads. Last night, we had bulgur and white bean, arugula and cannellini, peaches and tomatoes, and strawberries and tomatoes. Unfortunately, it turns out Amanda does not like tomatoes. They were good, but I had a little trouble with the fruit and tomatoe combinations, with onion and dressing. Better to put the fruit together. Anyway it was fun and good.