Hi all. My health has improved. I'm still seeing to Ed's musts. He can't walk very far but can get to his car. His forever ward is ill, so he drove to see her. He is very fond of her. She ignores me but my pique has gone. I am kind to her when she calls.

Sol, the nurse whom we helped through nursing school, and has been our forever house guest, has bought into a townhouse in Cape Coral and will be moving as of September. She was able to do this because we never charged her rent. When she first lived with us we spent a lot of time together but boyfriends and "other friends" entered the picture and I was marginalized. I missed her but got over it. She hugs me when she comes home but we no longer watch movies together and no longer have long talks. He boyfriend of the moment and her other friends have replaced me. I used to walk down to Pine Island road (a trek of some 30 minutes) and meet a lot of people who were tending their yards. I'd stop and start talking to them. I made a lot of friends. I'd continue across the road to the park and the park pier where I did a ballet workout on the railing. I still work out but do this at home.

So now that Sol is moving I won't have any friends. The piano will be my friend. I bought a huge book of Chopin works and am wading through it.

Sol traveled to Lithuania for a month to see her mother. While she was gone Laura, my daughter, and her boyfriend, Robert, came to see us for a week and used her room. It was a lovely visit. She has bought a huge house in Hardwick, Massachusetts and they will move there when she retires as director of the Blauvelt library.
She has told us we are welcome to move in with them if we are ever inclined to leave Florida. We'll have to get used to having winter again but well worth the change. Florida is brain dead, so I will be more than pleased to live in an area where people are educated and inclined to be liberal.

this in a month or so.