Back to the Woods

I arrived at the old homestead Friday noonish and started sorting through the wheat and the chaff. There was much more of the latter. This was exhausting labor so it was most fortuitous that Sue arrived to help me. I needed to make a stop at Hilltop Creamery to get my soft-serve fix. It was not an ice cream day, but that doesn't matter to a true afficionado. By this time of the season, the nuts and brittle topping is finally fresh since they've used up last year's stock. I was in creamery heaven.

Patty Sidor was happy to see me and started fussing over me immediately. I was really tired, so I took a shower and a power nap. We had a delicious dinner and I crashed around 9:30.

Saturday was a test of my organizational skills. I returned to the Moose and hauled trash to the curb. Then I jumped in the Mini and went to the Resource and Recovery Center to dump some electronic devices. On my way back to EG, I stopped in Providence to pick up Mariel's and my race packets for Sunday's 5k. Then I got the van and took it to be serviced and went out for lunch with my friend Susan. I returned the cable box to the provider, picked up the car and headed back to Patty's, stopping off for a quick coffee with Lisa Ross.

Reinhardt made wiener schnitzel for dinner, which was fabulous. I slept really well, and prepared to go to the race. I met Mariel at her apartment and we walked downtown. It was a pretty hot day for a race.

Rhode Island Moment: the woman lined up in front of me was swishing her pony tail in my face, and when she turned around to apologize, she said, "Patricia?" She looked familiar. Turns out it was Dianna Glass, Mark's Team in Training Coach four years ago when he ran the San Diego Marathon for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The race was true torture. I felt like my head was going to explode from the heat. The rest of me was generally numb. I did my personal worst, something like 45 minutes and change. I think had I walked it, I might have gone faster.

We went out for lunch at a cute little place called Duck and Bunny. I had the Eggs Buniduck. We finished the meal with yummy cupcakes. Then it was back in the car for me for the drive to NYC. It gets so tiresome. 95, my nemesis, made sure it wasn't easy, but I made it in just over 3 hours. Marty had a martini waiting for me in the freezer, which I desperately needed. We went out for Chinese food after that, really good Chinese food. The peking duck appetizer was superb.

This will be a social week, capped off by a trip up to the country house and a weekend at Vassar visiting Harry. Sunday night we have tickets to the Yankee-Red Sox game at the Stadium.

All good things.