I woke up to lovely rain about 6:30. Yay! for the garden...and I know my Dad will not be arriving soon for breakfast. I stayed up too late reading the Hunger Games...so I find I can go back to sleep, waking to rain now and then, and getting up finally about 8:30.

Monday I went to my Small Group--it was okay, not my favorite meeting. Ray and i had a quick lunch at Gryo Wrap before he had to report to jury duty. I went to pick up his meds and then to my sleep apnea doctor, who once again scolded me about not using my mask. He gave me a new kind to try. He is quite nice, but somewhat patronizing. I picked up Soli at school and we went home to play Save the Whales. Lately, he loses interest, not surprisingly, since it is quite a long and often dull game. Just another week of school, so he seemed a litle more distracted that usual. It started to rain and he went out and played in the mud, building dams on Paul's drive. I sat on the porch and looked at cookbooks while he did that.

When his mother came to get him, I drove to pick Ray up at the gas station at the end of the bus line. For dinner, we joined Janna and what Ron calls "the usual suspects" at Five and Ten. It was Janna's birthday and they are leaving for Europe today or tomorrow. We had a lovely time. I had a drink called a Bourbon Smash to start with. I thought about ordering oysters, or maybe just one, for my Mom. There were some on the menu from the Bras d'Or. But I had a clam special appetizer instead and it was really good. John and Deb had some too and they raved about it. I went wild and had the steak, with asparagus and mashed potatoes. We had a bottle of white and a bottle of red for the table, so I could have white with my clams and red with my steak! It was very fun.

Yesterday morning, Captain came early, before 7. Ray was still asleep; he had been up in the night. We had breakfast and then headed off to Cedartown, Georgia, where my Dad had paid for a skydive. Why he chose this place, I don't know. I suspect there was some sort of discount, but as Ray pointed out, if he saved $50 and has to drive 2 1/2 hours each way, that's not much of a deal. From the road, my Dad called to check on the weather. It was 8:30 before he could do that, and, sure enough, the weather was too iffy. We turned around and came home, arriving a little after 9. My friend Kent had expressed interest, so we are trying to arrange a time to go there on a Friday night and they can both do it the next morning.

My Dad worked in the garden. I went to do some Kenney Ridge banking business, involving closing out our bank accounts and opening credit union ones. This involved some waiting and when I got back, my Dad was a little upset. Our friends and neighbors had brought the pork from the processor and put it in our freezer. I was sorry I missed it and let them do the work for us. Ray was giving an exam. But now we have a freezer full of pork chops, fresh hams, and roasts. I haven't actually looked yet. The organ meat is in the fridge; Karen will get it to feed to her dogs, I think. Then there are two packages of something that could be turned into bacon, if I was willing and able. At the moment, it is more like pork belly. I can freeze it, but not sure why. It's great, even better than money in the bank. Although we must be on guard against power failures...not likely to happen, at least for long periods, in this day and age.

I picked Ray up again and we had a quiet late afternoon and early evening, eating peas and salad with lentils or garbanzos. I am giving lettuce away left and right in an attempt to eat it all before it bolts. My Dad harvested 44 heads of garlic, so as long as I don't eat more than one every two weeks, we have a lifetime supply. We are running the ac very little, as it is cool enough overnight to opent he windows, even though it was rather humid last night. The rain has kept it cool so far today.