Showing posts with label Susan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan. Show all posts

Sunday, June 1, 2014

1 June 2014: Sunday ... Rev. Greg hit trifecta w/service today (Kathe sang and daughter - Rebecca and grandson - Darwin, attended) ... late walk on abandoned PC golf course ...

From our new minister, Rev. Greg Pelley, at the UU Society of Mill Creek, these words prior to a pause from sound emanation during today's service:

"Silence is being present to all the sounds,

not the absence of it."


Might not be exact (again, that's the journalist in me) but it captures the gist of his words.


My goodness, Susan is happy. You can't fake that smile. She has
found a true love and I am happy (really) for her. (As a personal
aside and selfish intent, I wish the same for myself in another person.)

A late walk along the asphalt cart path that snakes, up and down, the abandoned Pike Creek Golf Course was my venue tonight as the crescent moon rose and the shadows grew along the trail, where I saw no one and Dancer kept a healthy distance behind me, for most of the walk. She did go into the Pike Creek for a dip and I tried, unsuccessfully, to photograph her with a finicky, splattered flash image that did not work out. Well, the walk was worth it but I did cut it a little close. Made it back to the car shortly after 9 p.m. and then, the doggie do-do packet still in hand, drove around to the large trash container and deposited it within its cavernous and empty interior with resounding thud. 

Sunday, May 18, 2014

18 May 2014: Sunday ... Susan called to say she'll marry this summer ... Linda's service ... A Cappella group sang beautifully and expressively ...

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Children's story time told by Linda Lucero with Kristen Tosh-Morelli holding the book during Linda's 60s service at church today. It went well. Notice Judy Papenhagen in the 3rd row. She returned after a lengthy stay in New York moving her Aunt Flo and checking on her ill mother. Her favorite aunt, 89, fell and broke her hip and required a replacement and had to be moved to a senior care center in Massachusetts. All went as well as could be expected and it was good to see her back in Delaware.

Photo: In the woods near Bark Park, Dancer poses leashless against a setting sun. (OK, it's a quasi-setup photo as I encouraged my girl to pause within the spread of descending rays.)
Dancer off leash in the woods next to Bark Park at Carousel
Equestrian Center's land, a New Castle County park area, during
our walk this late afternoon. 

Friday, March 21, 2014

20 March 2014: Thursday ... 1st day of Spring ... Hallelujah ... A Great Day ... filled with wonderful interactions (so many to document) ... Brandywine Springs Park history ...


  1. Poor mom has the cold that I had and she's congested, coughing and is miserable. Thankfully, we got a visit from a PRN nurse, Erica, who entered with her laptop in her folded arms and was thoroughly helpful (I'd called Beth Kincaid earlier and she said that she was wrapped up and said that another nurse would come visit ... got a call almost immediately from Erica). I went to RiteAid and got some Mucinex and it helped right away with it's combo of pain relief, decongestant, and cough suppressant. 
  2. Fantastic Body Pump with Jennifer Fawzi. She really got into it and taught the moves so well. Afterward, I told her so and then kidded her that she should talk to someone at the "Y" about getting on full time. "I do work here full time," she chimed back. 
  3. Got my login straight for Expresso HD and road a moderate course of just over 5 miles, not too much terrain, and road for a little over 20 minutes after Body Pump. Nice finish. Did not have the energy to do spinning like John does, who, by the way, had his knee go funny in BP and had to take it easy for awhile.
  4. Delightful Heidi (the one who wears the foot-shaped athletic shoes and absolutely loves Body Combat by participating with intense zeal) , whose name I learned today, manned a volunteer slot for a booth detailing the fund drive by the Y for its yearly goal to raise money to assist needy members and other needs. There only about 1/2 there and the Fit to Give campaign, which is this Saturday, the 22nd, is just a part of it. 
  5. Learned from a woman, who I did not know, but who immediately picked up on my kidding at the coffee station when she brought back her cup and I asked where she'd made it to my liking. She said she had. I felt serendipity and asked about caring for an aging parent who had a cold. She had some good suggestions: Mrs. Grass chicken soup (comes in a box, which I found at Acme and saw Susan Okarski (who checked my few groceries ... Mrs. Grass chicken soup mix, mango Popsicles), who told me about a longtime nurse, who lived in Limestone Gardens and died a few days ago and who worked for Dr. Georgieff, who I think was the Okarski's doctor), some sherbet, which I could not find. 
  6. Fantastic walk and return to memory lane and learn history at Brandywine Springs Park. Posted Dancer on a trail above the Red Clay Creek on FB and got some tremendous responses about the park's history.

     

Made our way to Brandywine Springs Park which the Red Clay Creek, seen in the back, traverses and was treated to a history lesson. Dancer walks near the boardwalk that took people between amusement sites at a former park, now all oer'grown and just whispers of a generation gone. Fascinating and nostalgic. What you don't know about your own neighborhood. — with Dancer at Brandywine Springs State Park.
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