A Day Early

I’m down at the beach this week to kick off the summer mah Jongg classes at the Dunes Club. Normally I drive down at the crack of dawn and roll right into teaching six hours of classes after three hours of driving. But I am staying with my friend Jill and she suggested I come in a day early so that I can sleep like a normal human. Since I am a senior citizen now I thought, “Jill is right.” (Jill is always right.) So I came today. It has been such a pleasure to leisurely drive down, stop where I want and get to spend time visiting with Jill.

Speaking of stopping. I made one stop in Kinston, as I always will, given the time. I dropped off the ornament I made this weekend to Ann Cherry. It was her mother’s needlework she had given me a year ago that I used to practice finishing an ornament. It was not perfect, but was good enough for me to return the precious heirloom back to Ann. She hung it on her break front which holds her grandmother’s china. It was also just great to see Ann and Francis, who was with Ann when I gave her the ornament.

I made another stop to look at some clothes in Morehead and ran into my friend Debbie Aiken and met her sister from Charlotte. Apparently I can’t go anywhere in eastern North Carolina and not see friends. Isn’t that the best?

The only problem with coming early is I did buy some cute clothes. I may have to go back to driving down at the last minute with no time to spare because coming early is so expensive.