Travels by CAML

Here we are, it's July 17th and Melanie has had both eyes done - cataracts removed and new lense implants. Now we'll stumble through a couple of months, letting things stabilize, until she can a get a prescription for new glasses.  One more eye appt on August 6th - then we'll head north. It rather sounds as if Canada will be well vaccinated by that time and the US-Canada border may reopen in mid-August - we can but hope. The past week has been focused on eyes, or a left eye, with a few walks and visits thrown in. And of course heavy rains every day. Tomorrow I'm doing barbecued pork ribs for eight with corn and potatoe salad being provided by our guests and Melanie will do a desert - our first big indoor entertainment in a l-o-n-g time. Should be fun. Monday a cousin of Melanie's will be in town from Texas and we'll go out for lunch somewhere on Magazine Street. And so it goes. Not alot to report; we're both well and getting excited about getting 'home.&

 Last week's post was entitled 'Approaching July.' Well, we've made it; the 1st was two days ago, the 4th is tomorrow, and today is Terry and Judy's (Atherton) 50th wedding anniversary - congratulations and best wishes T, sorry we can't be there to celebrate. Some day Canada may let us back in. This week, in New Orleans, has been another warm wet one and the forecast goes on in a similar fashion for the foreseeable future - temps in the mid-eighties, humidity in the nineties, and rain every day - or at least thundershowers. We try not to let all that bother us. I sometimes get home from my walk of four or five miles, soaking wet. If it starts to rain and I'm twenty minutes out I put my head down and keep going. Maybe around Audubon Park, or down Magazine Street, or Prytania, and back up St Charles Avenue, following the streetcar line, splashing through the puddles. Sunday evening we watched Us on PBS, Masterpiece Theatre, it's now available online if yo