September 15, 2009 10:10 PM

As promised!

As most of you know, I released the entries for Saturday through Monday this morning utilizing the local bookstore’s WiFi. I say local – but the bookstore is about 10 miles from here.

Since it unexpectedly poured last night we decide to push off the botanical garden visit until tomorrow (Wednesday) because we figured that the grounds would possibly be wet and muddy. Otherwise, the rain dissipated during the morning, the sun came out, and it was a beautiful day.

We ate lunch at a local restaurant that billed itself as having the best crab cakes in New England! My wife wanted to put them to the test and had them for lunch. She said they we very good but not necessarily the “best”. Not being a big crab cakes fan, I opted for the burger.

We did drive around a little and came back to the cottage to R & R for the afternoon. It was a very relaxing day. We started a fire in the stove to take the edge off the coolness that pervaded the cottage and ate dinner here overlooking the lake as the sun slowly set in the west (it always seems to do that!). As it sets earlier and earlier, you can just feel fall setting in and you start to shudder at the thought of winter being just around the corner. I suppose I can’t complain – especially this year – as I most certainly feel a lot better that I did a year ago.

I have to tell you that it feels awful to know that you just can’t do something that you were always able to do. Now, not just the feeling is gone – but I am able to actually DO many things that I had to forego a year ago.

God and modern medicine can both work wonders…

Bob