By Lula Anderson
How about the weather last week? Yes, we're at the time of the year when we complain about the heat. Wasn't it just last week when we were complaining about how cold it was? Literally. We have been lucky though, except for one or two nights, it has cooled off so we can sleep. The biggest complaint that I hear from all over is it's too wet to mow. There has been so much rain that all of the springs are open, and the ground doesn't dry enough to get a lawn mower through. 'Seriously, what would we do if we didn't have anything to complain about?
Craft classes have started at the Senior Center in the Windham Ambulance building. They are held on Tuesday mornings starting at 10 am. We have several budding artists this year, and many learning, or brushing up on stained glass techniques. A few are starting to clean off their lawn ornaments for repainting. A lot of work, a lot of gossip, and a lot of fun. What more could you ask for a summer morning? The ac in the building is definitely a PLUS!!
My sons and I just got back from the WAJPL trip. We left the parking lot of St Theresa's at 6 am and headed out to Cape Cod. There were 46 of us making this wonderful trip together. We had taken a family trip up that way many years ago, so we had fun remembering some of the details. Our first stop was Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower. Next to Sandwich Island where we watched a glass-blowing demonstration. A Grist Mill was on the agenda which had Arlene M. Asking about the mill on Mad Brook/ Mill Street in town. Travel time was spent trying to remember who lived where along the brook. We came up with Kathryn Brockett, Kathryn Miller, Harriett Campbell and "you know, the one who lived there". A fine way to pass the trip. The only real problem was the heat. But the hotel we stayed at had a pool and water park, so we survived. Our next trip is the Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty in August.
Continuing prayers for Eric Towse, Claudia Brac., Greg Beckman. Cataract surgery is becoming quite the thing" with Kathy Gibson and Barb Cooke joining me in the procedure.
AS I REMEMBER IT
As I close this week, I think of June and how hot it was during regent's week when we all had to go to school and wait on the buses for the regents' students to come out. We didn't get special hours because they were testing. The elementary grades had outdoor activities but still had to sit on the bus until the last tester was out. While going through it, it seemed like forever, but in retrospect, it was only 2 or 3 days, but it was traditionally HOT!! We would come home, strip, don a bathing suit and jump in a creek. Our own rite of passage. Our parents would be out planting the garden in the hot sun, then take a quick break to cool off with us. Meals were still cooked, no "run out to the diner" or Chinese takeout. There was no such thing around here. Maybe that's what made up stronger. We are survivors of hot and cold weather. We didn't get a trophy just because we participated. We may be old, but we are tough.
Many best wishes for the members of the class of 2025. Enjoy what life has to offer. It's not always sunshine and rosebuds, but the thorns, the weeds and the rain are what makes you an adult.
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