At the Gym

Every day you should exercise. I used to go to Curves, but it closed. Now I have moved to Miami Rec Center to stretch, walk, and visit with random strangers or people with whom I am slightly acquainted.   I have also tried swimming in the pool and lifting weights.  Notice that there are about a million steps to climb before you get in the door. It is all good.
I like going there because it makes me think of those days in summer when I was 6 and learned to swim at the pool on Withrow Court.  Of course Dessie and Howard's house is no longer there on Oak Street, but I still feel like I am in the same place as that homesick little girl so long ago. The air there is different, it sort of feels  like home.

A Saturday night on a Wednesday

 When you are retired you don't have to wait for the weekend to do the things you used to do on Saturday. So on Monday Karen and I (otherwise known as Amma and Grannie) ventured into the great metropolis of Hamilton, Ohio.  We were searching for new things to try and counting on old favorites.
The first stop was lunch at Bob Evans where we both had egg beater  vegetable omelets and ice tea. The egg substitute was like yellow rubber and both of us decided not to get that again. But after a quick rest room break we went out to a new experience shopping on the Main street before the bridge.
Here we found a used bookstore with no Spanish/English dictionaries and no old copies of Nancy Drew or Judy Bolton books. They did have some old Agatha Christie's  and even a small collection of Horatio Alger books though. We also found a Bargain Bungalow Shoppe that we explored and found nothing of interest but a china or maybe paper machet fish. As we left we decided that just shopping there made us smell like mildew so we will not try that shop again.
Now at 4:45 It was time for the main event. Drum roll please. "Man of Steel" was the movie and it was in 3D. We put our black rimmed 3D glasses on and watched  as a young boy, Clark Kent, learned that he has extraordinary powers and was not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeyed to the North pole and beyond to discover his origins and his purpose. Then in very loud music and strange sort of transformer like action the  hero in him emerged and  he saved  the world  yet again from annihilation. Finally Superman became  the symbol of hope for all mankind. My opinion, I like Samllville better and Tom Welling is way more attractive then Henry Cavill. But you choose;  what do you think?
The evening was just beginning but being over 60 the two of us called it a day and came home to cook healthy dinners and relax.

Go Grannie Go Amma Go

On the longest day of the year I broke away from my Smallville fixation long enough to go play Miniature golf in 85 degree heat and about 75 degree humidity.  At about 6:30 I called Karen and said, "Here it is  Friday and the longest day of the year. We have to get outside and do something other than walk all the way down  High Street. " We had done that earlier when we ate lunch at the Wild Bistro at noon.  "But what can we do?"  Then suddenly I had a brilliant idea, and said I know, "Let's go play miniature golf at Marker's Wally's World. And so we did. To see the pictures, check out Facebook. I can't figure out how to put them on here!

The Aviator's Wife

 The Aviator's Wife is the story of  Anne Morrow Lindberg. It is a novel but it seems to me that it tells her story very well. I recommend it to anyone looking for a good book. The emotions the author reveals the first time Anne flies are so real and when the baby is kidnapped you long for him to be found.  It also portays the life style of the rich and famous very well. You almost hate the public for  wanting to know about them.

And now it is June

Where did May go? It is June 11 already.  I am busy every day.
Starting this week for 10 days, I am teaching summer school and gosh it feels great to work with small groups of children again. I'm teaching the writing group and we are writing stories and autobiographies and other things.  Tomorrow I am going to try some poetry with them. Wish I could take a picture of the group and post it here. Just so you know, two of the women I work with were once my students and at least one of the children are children of previous students.

Another Rainy Saturday

I think I have found a theme here. ON Saturday I read book s and watch movies. Yesterday I watched three movies.
I watched Amazing Grace
and Sense and Sensibility
and Seven Years in Tibet.
Have you seen them? Did you like them, too?
I liked "Amazing Grace" because it was about William Wilberforce,  a man who did something that changed the world. I wish I had known about him when I was in 8th grade. He would have been a great person about whom to write a biography. Slave trading  and slavery are just dispicable things.  People are people aand all should be free. It made me wonder who was the better man Thomas Jefferson or William Wilberforce?

I liked "Sense and Sensibility" because it is a romance. It also made me aware that women really didn't have much life before the 20th century and certainly we didn't have much of a say about things. All there was was babies, children and care giving no mater which class you were in. I am so glad that Margaret doesn't marry......

And I liked "SevenYears in Tibet". It was a true story and made me again aware of the differences in cultures. The east is different from the west. Not better or worse, just different.

And now you know that I am going to the library to get some new shows and new books .......
Have a good week and if you have any suggestions for my movie enjoyment.... I would be greatful.

Saturday

It rained and poured.
I watched some tv today.
I went to the grocery today.
 I read two books today and I visited a neighbor today.
Oh, and I went to curves.
Curves was good quiet but good. It was a work out where you sort of move around and try to get strong. But I did not work harder than ever that is for sure. Some times when your knees hurt, you just can't jog or even march double time.
Then I read a book, About a secretary named Janet. It was ok, but the story was too predictable.
Can't remember the title and the book isn't on the table where I am typing.
The other book was a true crime book by Ann Rule and it was riviting, but I again skipped to the end.
The movies were, "Ides of March" with George Clooney and Ryan Gossling. It was about politics.
And takes place at Miami University. Interesting to see Hall Hall and Farmer School of Business on the movie screen.
And the second one was "What If?"  That movie was a great one. I kept wondering about the ending. Yesterday when I tried to watch it,  the ending was messed up so I cleaned the disc off and then was able to watch it today. Great story. An investment banker meets a wonderful life sort of theme.
The grocery store? well I went so I could make vegetable soup. Which I did for supper.
I also watched the Pacers game on tv and it was good, because the Pacers won.
Of course I did a few other things like talk on the phone and dishes and played on the computer~
And there you have it a Saturday in the life of a 60 year old ......