KateP's musings

I had the best time yesterday.    I left here a little after 10 and headed to Killingworth.   Unfortunately some trucker from Unifirst was being obnoxious by blowing his horn at me.   Admittedly I wasn’t speeding but I may have slid into his lane inadvertently.   Not my finest moment. It was just about then when I realized I could get the phone map to play through over the Bluetooth and I didn’t have to hold the phone or keep looking over at it.   Then again the phone was going wonky throughout the day so a few of the aps didn’t work for me.   Like the map my walk and my pedometer wigged out on me too. The route to the farm was becoming familiar as it was close to my Nephew Jr. and his family’s home.   There were plenty of hills and beautiful homes.     I arrived to the farm shortly before the agreed time.   G, and a few others were waiting.   Eventually others arrived and we began walking around the pond.   There we...

Today was the Stamford Thanksgiving Parade sponsored by local businesses and I believe this is the 8th year for it. It was starting at 12 noon so Dave and I left his house by quarter of 9 and we stopped at the Darien McDonalds and had breakfast. We got to Stamford by 10. The street was going to be shutdown starting at 10. So Dave and I walked around the book store Barnes and Noble and then at 10 I went to St. Johns Church which was right on the parade route for mass. Dave didn’t want to go so he walked around and then we got together after mass. We played telephone tag and apparently missed each other after the mass. We finally found each other a short time later. We stood in the spot directly across and watched as the crowds gathered and a saw clowns, police (from various cities and towns) drive around. We even talked with other parade watchers. It was really fun. As the time came the parade started at 12 but got to see it by 12:20. There several marching bands from Stamf...

Found out that Paul’s Hamburger Stand on Boston Post Road was permanently closed on Wednesday. The reason they are giving is they lost their lease but could it be more? It’s been in the same spot for 62 years. In the last 46 years (that I know of) I have only been there twice in my entire life. The people I mentioned this news to were shocked and dismayed. They would tell me stories as to how many times they have gone to that place over the years. I have cousins who worked there. I made it to the funeral home and wake for Phil’s Dad with no problem. I stayed for quite some time after some others I knew from the DTC came and paid their respects. Phil’s family is nice. I got home by 6. No mail except junk for the AARP insurance advertisements. I spent the night doing very little. Mostly on line stuff. I was checking emails. Today work went well considering it was my first week back after the two week vacation. The charts came and went without any problems. I even got to vi...