Just an ordinary Saturday morning here with my dog…listening to Trebek peddle Colonial Penn on tv, and in the distance, someone with more ambition than me-mowing their yard. It rained yesterday and the grass looks like it grew 3″ over night. Ugh! My very good friend was here for a couple of days and left early this morning for her day long drive home. Man, I wish we lived closer. I started missing her before she was even out of the driveway. We had gone to high school together and then didn’t see each other from the time we were 35 till 6mos ago…20 years. My mom died this year and having Lisa to lean on helped me more than she will ever know. Now her mom is not well and I go by to see her and take her groceries on Tuesdays. It’s tough living in another state when your parent is ill. Especially when they forget to put the phone on a charger and you can’t contact them for hours. My mom would do that. I’d drive all the way to her house because she wouldn’t answer her cell or her land line, and they’d both be either crammed in a couch cushion or in her purse or something. She’d say, “Oh me! Darn phone. Well, you needed to come visit me anyway..you want tea?” I’d give anything for one more visit, Ma. I suppose I’m just like my mother. I have been known to leave my phone in my purse all day and not check it. Not much of a phone talker. Perhaps it comes from fighting with my sisters as kids- stretching the phone line from the kitchen into the bathroom for privacy. Good times. Remembering simple moments as a kid- the everyday life- now brings a smile to my aging face. Having never married, having no children, I cherish these memories the most.