Leaving for NC tomorrow

to visit Big Bro. Always have a good time there. We'll have some good food; I'll run around doing errands with them; we'll visit my nephew and his swimming pool. The summer heat has been hovering at or near 100 there; this week it's been 100 in NYC and nearly that here in old K'town. But the heat in little Washington, NC is very damp and oppressive.

I much prefer being there in fall or winter, or early spring which can be simply wonderful. But I want to visit my brother; haven't seen them in a while and it's July, so I'm going to eastern NC.

Will take a stack of books and might actually read while I'm there. I've gotten into habit of reading while hanging around the restaurant, although I put aside reading material when I have a chance to visit with chums who come in. As I said to a friend there on a previous visit, my dance card is full when I am in little Washington; there're always folks coming in for lunch and visiting and sharing.

I've contemplated moving there when I retire. My retirement seems to keep moving further away, so I may never get to NC to live. Hopefully, in near future (and everything depends on economy!) they'll be able to sell the restaurant at a good profit and retire. By the time I retire, they could be living in TN again, if that's what they wish.

Big Bro and I both love being near the water; little Washington is on the Pamlico/Tarr rivers and the Atlantic isn't far away. It's a charming little town and I've met some fine folk there; but I am rooted in K'town now and might find moving away challenging. I've lived in K'town almost as long as I lived in my hometown before going away to school and then getting married. After getting married, I lived in many places with husband and kids, and then several years with kids in Tallahassee. This sojourn has been the longest and, all in all, it ain't been bad.

Wherever Big Bro is, I'll be visting him. I enjoy the trips to NC, and I would enjoy going to another part of TN. I think it could be fun if one of us returned to the mountains of Va where we grew up. That was a nice place then, not that I could even find my way anywhere now. Change being rampant and ubiquitous, nothing remains as we remember. But that's life, adjusting to change and trying not to fall off the truck before we're finished.