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Been up long enough to drink a mug of hot & black, this one with dark brown sugar and half and half cream, a treat about twice a year or so. 3:14 AM and sunrise is not for three hours yet. Why up so early? Slept three hours and that was it, couldn't sleep, which seems to be a malady of extreme old age. Does it bother me? SomeTimes. It's not bothering me now, but it bothered the aitch out of me yesterday with a full calendar that brought us home about two o'clock totally exhausted to a glass of cold watermelon wine for Linda and one finger of Laphroaig with a cube of ice for me and falling asleep. Linda fell asleep, I fought it off, so opened my laptop and played several favorite solitaire card games. 

Low, heavy clouds, 92% humidity, 59° F but wind NE 11 mph with gusts to 21 mph and 90% chance of rain: a good day for staying close to home, eh? We're expecting a former parishioner and special old friend from Apalachicola days later this morning.

Do I miss the Apalachicola days, years? Not really anymore, October 1, 1998, we've been gone 27 years and two months today. It's nice to go back now and then, I helped out as a Supply Priest there from Time to Time but am done with even that. River Lily, there's a shop that Linda enjoys. I used to want to go back for the oysters, but that played out such that these five years the Apalachicola Bay's been closed better oysters have been served in St Andrews and Millville. Same with the mullet, NA there anymore.

Ninety years crept up on me and even though I was expecting it, I'm still not used to the reality that it actually happened and is happening to me. It's raining doctors appointments here, nomesane? To get a sense of it, read Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The One Horse Shay."

21-40.

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We drive over to the Cove a couple of Times a week to check on how The Building is coming along. The west side already has the brick. I took this photo yesterday, from Linda Avenue. STREAM: science, technology, robotics, electronics, art, mathematics. 

First in 7H hearts.

RSF&PTL

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