Amelia's home!

She was at the beach in Panama City, on vacation with Kevin's family, and I had a vague notion that she would be passing through Athens at some point and we would get to see her briefly. When she called at 10 Thursday night, I was half asleep and didn't really take it in.

Yesterday, when I got to the Land Trust a little before 10, Nathan was back from his vacation in Maine (jealous!) and I moved to Nancy's office for the time being. There was a volunteer (Daniel) waiting that I knew nothing about. Nathan put him to work at the office, raking leaves and doing outside work. I was a little miffed that someone told him to come on when I had two other people working already and broken equipment. But George never showed up after working 5 hours on Wednesday. And Daniel was able to restring the weed-eater after Kate told me that was all that was wrong with it.

I had to go get the van from Kate's house (no air conditioning), have Daniel put the mower in for me, and drive it to the repair shop. They were busy there. When it was my turn, they took it out for me and assured me that they would let me know by next Friday if it could be fixed inexpensively. I got a chicken sandwich from McDonald's and a fruit smoothie and made copies of some keys for Heather. I also talked to her about interviewing potential homeowners and taking more responsibility for them.

I left at 3 after conversations with Ray and Amelia and went to EarthFare to buy some things. When I got home (it was in the 90s), I looked for a recipe I wanted to make for Amelia, but couldn't find it anywhere. It was a bean salad and a ratatouille-like salad with eggplant that I thought she would really like and I was frustrated not to be able to locate it. In the end, though, I decided that since we already had ratatouille, there was no need to make more. I just marinated some beans and the broccoli my parents had picked. There was also corn on the cob at the store (although it turned out to be old and not very good). We tidied some and made the beds. Amelia got here a little after 7, in spite of the holiday weekend traffic, so that was really nice. I gave a bag of home-grown tomatoes to Gloria and she was excited. I told her there were many more and she assured me she could eat them as fast as I could grow them.

After dinner, Amelia made a large birthday cake (sheet cake) for Gloria's sister's birthday. Trish is in hospice. She has cancer and diabetes and COPD and this is her last birthday. Gloria is bringing people to the nursing home where she is to celebrate. I am not sure that is what I would want, but I hope she enjoys it.

Looking sunny and hot already this morning, but the AC is running.