Friday - January 9

 A beautiful morning at CT.....Mark and I were off to the library to play euchre, but no one showed up???   Last night, some of the newbie's said they were coming, but.....

But all was not lost as when we got to the parking lot, there was Noble Brews (cute little truck with coffee)!   This guy came once last year and plans to be back more this season.    No one knew this guy was coming - last minute decision from Jason, our activities director.    So, no euchre, but I got my coffee.

Then we got some gas for Ruby and on home.   1/2 hour later I was off to meet Claire at Cristof's for lunch.    We had a reservation for 12:30 but since I wasn't playing euchre, decided to meet at 11:30.   We were able to sit on the patio and an extra hour to visit.   We both had the special - beet salad with goat cheese and delicious shrimp - sooo good.   And we shared their wonderful dessert, "tartufo", a ball of spumoni encased in hard chocolate - sooo yummy!

We sat for 3 hours and 15 minutes on the patio - such a pretty day with nice breeze.    We had not been together since September 25th in Bloomington.

Claire and our "Tartufo"

It cooled down around 5:30 so we walked and met new neighbors (on Ann and Duaine's lot) - Robbie and Mike from Minnesota.   They'll be here thru March.

13 years ago today, Mark's dad passed away - very sudden.   We were in Marathon, FL when we got the news....he is so missed by his large family and would've been so proud of all the new great grandchildren who have arrived since.

Have a fun weekend!