Reminiscing with Old Friends

Since yesterday was warm and sunny and we had nothing really scheduled until the evening, we relaxed by walking Bonz around the area for about 1.5 miles. Then, since it was so nice, we ran a couple of errands, Dee got some ivy she wanted to use above the kitchen cabinets, and we chilled out on the deck for the afternoon. She read her book and I continued with the Benjamine Franklin book.

Later, the Fishers came for dinner. Dee made one of her chicken casserole dishes with broccoli and rice. The Fishers brought some nice selection of desserts from Whole Foods. And Bonz behaved himself nicely. It was great to see them again and visit together getting caught up on their family, and others from the Wilkinsburg Church. We laughed a lot and picked up almost where we left off 13 years ago. Nice.

After dinner we played the Wii. They'd never played it before so it was fun teaching them how the games worked. As it turns out Eleanor was a bowling "ringer". She started slow and then after a "turkey" in frames 6-8, she hit another strike in the 10th frame and sped past all of us to win the game. Tom seemed to catch on to the tennis game quickly beating me several times. Finally we did the "Brain Academy" game. As it turns out Tom's brain only weighs 659 milligrams giving him a first round score of C--. Dee and Eleanor visited while we played the tennis and academy games.

It was lots of fun. And a very enjoyable evening with people we've known for 25 years. (That's something I haven't been able to say very often - actually not at all - until we retired.) Somehow we missed out on being able to get together with people we've known a long time when we moved from one church to another. That's been one of the added blesings of moving back to the Pittsburgh area. Three of our five churches are here, and we've been able to connect with our roots. While serving churches in Michigan and NJ we felt somewhat "rootless". I always envied people who said they did this or that with people they grew up with or knew for 10-20-30 and even 40 years. Being here, now, allows us to have some of those experiences. What a blessing. Thank you , Lord.