Night & Day

The nights have been warm and the days a bit warmer . . . the other night the new moon was low in the sky off to the west -- beautiful and I was able to get a quick snapshot and it turned out. You can even make out the "fabric" of the moon's surface.

Then in the morning, Gail spotted the yellow gladiolas out front along with another flower that I am not familiar with and of course our favorite -- the irises.

The moon has risen higher in the sky each night but so far remains picturesque. While outside watching Dino during his "last business trip" of the day, the air is surprisingly cool, but inside we have managed to trap warmer air that will stay there through most of the night -- very uncomfortable.

Of course at night, right before sleep, we read and we are still about a little more than a third of the way through the book on Robin Williams.

We are amazed at some of the events in his life but not totally surprised.

I can't imagine living the lifestyle that he did at any of his different stages, from childhood on up through adulthood.

There is little to admire in a lot of his life. To round out the reading of the book, we took the advantage of viewing the HBO special last week, about the life of Robin Williams.

We found the HBO presentation disjointed and often depressing in so many instances. My following of Robin from those days consisted mostly of seeing him on late night talk shows and in a couple of movies -- mainly "Good Morning Viet Nam" which I enjoyed. So we were isolated from the "real" life of Robin as it was shown on HBO. I can see why some folks were not "sold" on him . . .

It'll probably be about two weeks before we finish the book and then on to the next one . . .

But looking at the day again -- how did we spend at least some of our time?

We decided to try a "regular" puzzle this time instead of our usual wooden one.

We chose a 1000 piece colorful and interesting display about one of our favorite topics -- books.

Of course, Gail announced for sure that there was "no way" we could do this puzzle as we started it last Saturday.

But -- as of this Saturday we are about 90% finished, in other words, we have managed to put together about 900 of the pieces and it -- even according to Gail -- is very doable.

And it has been fun and engaging. Even though the "piece" quality is not the same as the wooden puzzles we have been working, it is just fine -- we will probably keep mixing our choices of puzzles to keep the interest high. The next one we have lined up though has about 50% water, and so that will be a challenge for sure.

In between moon gazing and puzzle working I spent countless hours doing searches for even more family lore -- and I keep finding bits and pieces here and there.

I keep adding folks to the tree and even though some of them are really "way distant" it is fine.
I communicated with 5 "cousins" this week about various branches of the family and traded information back and forth.

I received a rolled up scroll for one branch that will take me several days to add to the tree and to make sure that there are resources backing up the data. And that is what I find intriguing -- it is a lot like the jigsaw puzzle except that the family tree will never be completed, hopefully, that is not true for the wooden or cardboard puzzles . . .

And that IS a bit of our summertime week. See you all "in a few" ! 👨👩