May Day, Mable Gets Ornery, A Mall Tour and Meatballs

Virginia Beach, VA.
65 deg. clear, SW wind @ 15 mph.
Forecast today = high temp. 82 deg. mostly sunny, SW wind @ 10 to 15 mph.

Happy May Day!!!!!

Not a whole lot happened around here yesterday morning. Jim said that he didn't have much "get-up-and-go", so he just messed around outside some, watched a little TV and drank his coffee. After lunch, he and Linda took CLT and headed back to the Walgreen's store and picked up the last part of Linda's prescriptions that were on back-order.

Now, from Walgreen's, the plan was to go to the Forbe's Candy Company and buy Linda some more sugar free candy. Well, they had never gone from the part of the city where the Walgreen's store is to the part of the city where Forbe's is before, so Jim took Mable, (their GPS), along and programed her to direct them between the 2 places. I guess Jim has to accept some of the blame, because he programed Mable to take them there on the "shortest route", but I think Mable was just being ornery.

You see, from Walgreen's, she took them on some back streets, through a residential area, had them take many left then right then left then right turns, and finally took them right into a Mall parking lot, where she took them first along the road that runs right up by the stores and then through the parking lot and down through the rows of cars, only to take them back out onto the street that they were on originally, but going the other way!!!

Of course the traffic was heavy in the mall area, and most of the people were in a hurry to get someplace, so it turned out to be quite a nerve-wracking experience.

CLT said that at one point, he thought Jim was going to throw Mable out of the window, but instead, he pulled over to the side of the road, reprogrammed her for the "quickest way", and resumed their quest to find Forbe's.

After Jim re-programed her, Mable behaved, and took them right to the store, without any more side trips. :-)

After they got back here, Jim took a nap, and Linda started preparing her meatball and rice dish that she was making for dinner. Then, after getting everything cooked and ready, they carried everything into the house, about 6:30. The meal went over well, and everyone, (especially Sami) thought it was really good. (Sami really likes meatballs). ;-)

After dinner, Jim, Linda, Joe and Nancy sat outside in the back yard and talked  for awhile. Then, a little before 9:00, people were starting to get tired so Jim and Linda came back out here, and Joe and Nancy went inside.

Today, I think Jim is going to put some more water into my fresh water tank. It's down below 1/2 and will probably run out by Thursday if he doesn't. Other than that, I have no Idea what's happening.

Oh, I just remembered!!!! Nancy bought some steaks at the grocery store the other day, and has asked Jim if he would cook them on his grill. She and Joe think that the way he cooks them is really good, and almost every time we're here, have asked him to do it.

Yummm!!! I can smell them cooking already!!!!  ;-)

Did you know that there is a May Day parade and pageant in Minneapolis MN each year that attracts about 35,000 people?