Wednesday - May 11

 Busy day for we nomads as we were off to town before 8.    Mark dropped me off for my mammogram (first getting a latte and cranberry/lemon muffin at Java City which is inside the medical office building).    He went on for his appointment with Dr. Lucy (dermatologist).    He picked me up later and we were off to do laundry.

We usually go to the laundromat in Normal next door to Gloria Jean's, but tried one much closer to where we were.    Walked in with all our stuff and there was the cleaning man and the mechanic from our regular place - they clean and fix the machines at more than one laundromat.    They remembered us and are both nice guys.

Unfortunately this place had no AC and on this hot day with all the machines going, whew.....glad to get outta there!    Loaded up our stuff and onto storage to put some stuff away and get out more stuff.

Then time for lunch at Destihl and meeting Jim and Nancy, long time friends.    Mark and Jim worked together eons ago and we enjoyed catching up on our families - they now have 20 GREAT grands.   WOW.     Lots of talk about what's happening around town, church, health issues with friends, etc.,  They are lots of fun and we had a great lunch + Nancy and I shared a piece of their banana cream pie (so different than the usual).

Nancy and Jim

Incredibly delicious banana cream pie

Said our good byes to Jim and Nancy with a plan to get together in September.   Onto CCHS to pick up Connor as Liam had an after-school dermatology appointment (Anne met him there).    While we were waiting for him to come out, I walked over to take a picture of Patrick's tree that was planted in the fall of 2019 by the baseball team in his memory.    It's doing very well from when it was planted and so much smaller!

Patrick's tree near the baseball field

Annette texted that Luke tested positive today!    Arghhhh.   He has a fever and is tired, so hopefully, he'll have a mild case like Maeve.

Connor drove us to his house and then Mark and I headed back to KK.    It was 96 with heat index of over 100.    Crazy for May 11th with more heat coming the next few days!    Unloaded the car, put the clean laundry away and settled in enjoying Flo's AC.