Well, THAT was intense

Let's see: In 10(essee) days or so,

• Chores for Mom -- fix TV system, hang pictures, install emergency-alert system, supervise deck tear-down to get ready for her new sunroom, plus much love and kisses.
• Pick out den chairs and pool fountain.
• Dinner for Paul, the world's greatest houseguest.
• Lunch for the out-of-town bridge tournament guys.
• Lunch and dinner for the after-tournament diehards.
• Certificates for the bridge match.
  
• Cure the pool gradoo.
• Overnight emergency roof permit to Ref.
• Cope with the farm's water-system failure.
  
• Repot plumeria fragments found in Key West trash.
• Lunches and dimes to John Gray (in the picture, it's Robert, Mom, JG and me at the ever-lovely Golden Corral).
• Dinner with Jerry and Joe.
• Dinner with Ken and Ben.
• Dinner with Shirley, Ray, Scott and Marie.

. . . And lots of other events from the sublime (discovering Wilma's produce farm next to the Hiwassee River) to the ridiculous (Wal-Mart and its everyday low prices, which are a six-hour round-trip, minimum, in Key West).

Sigh. It was all too quick.