The big news was a visit to Jaijai, Mark, and Mira. Mira has advanced in every way since we saw her last. She has a good vocabulary of spoken words and obviously understands a lot more than she can say. She frequently understands normal adult sentences. It was supposed to be rainy, but mostly we lucked out. We were able to visit a playground Saturday. We had a couple of very nice meals out, including one of the best tasting curry I have ever had. Adding to the peaceful atmosphere was a Buddha fountain and a most intriguing tree. I even took a posed picture, but somehow I lost the picture. After that lunch, we took an impromptu walk to another playground which turned out to be Mira’s highlight. The playground had a tall slide with gentle humps. Mark sat her about half way up and helped her down the slide, with Jiajia at the bottom to catch her. As soon as she went down one time, she immediately said “more, more”. She probably went down a half dozen times before she had enough. You can see that pic and more by visiting the website.
Mom asked me to take her to Home Depot so she could look fort a new light. We found one she liked for $44.97. It was out of stock. So we went back to her apartment and went to the Home Depot website. They had it available, same price. When I went to order it, I got a large pop-up that we were just $.03 short of the minimum order for free shipping. Otherwise, we could pay $9. That was too bad … for Home Depot. Don’t they realize they aren’t the only game in town? After that bit of rudeness, Mom was quite amenable to looking on Amazon. We found one she liked equally well. Shipping was free, thanks to my Prime membership. And it was a few bucks cheaper. Wake up and sharpen your pencils, B & M. It’s a new world out there.
Today is Preakness. It just might be the hottest Preakness ever. The high temperature is supposed to be 95, with plenty of humidity. Tomorrow is almost as hot as today. I decided this is an excellent time to take a day or two off from biking.
I had surgery on my right eye Monday. Everything went fine. I’ll get my left eye done in 3 weeks. That’s all for this week. I hope this finds everybody doing well.
