Tues 25 Jul

Had a very nice visit with Laura Sun/Mon. We helped her paint her back bedroom from the vibrant green to a nice calm dove grayish blue, at least the first coat. She bought some very nice curtains that will tie it in nicely with her new quilt. She plans to move into that bedroom as it has two windows and a larger closet even though the room itself is smaller. Jude will be moving in within the next 3 weeks or so. That will really help her with her financial stress to have someone contributing monthly as well as helping with utilities. She looks forward to freeing up some money to finish buying the furniture she would like, e.g. a dining room table. We had picked up pastries from Batch Sunday evening so we had almond croissants for breakfast with blueberries from the Co-op. We did Sunday lunch at the Co-op with the first part of the blueberries and sandwiches. It was a nice light meal so we all had room to enjoy the Restaurant Week meal at Merchant. The waiter actually remembered us from last time, even though we had forgotten that we had eaten there last time because Osteria wasn't open. Meal was very good, especially the dark chocolate cherry custard. Bob and I had a leisurely morning as Laura left early for a meeting. After breakfast and showers, we headed out for errands to the bakery and Costco. We stopped to lunch at Everly's (which turned out to be the new incarnation of Bluephie's). Lunch was very nice and we sat out on the patio as the temperatures were cooler and pleasant. We then went to Woodman's and made a trip to Brennan's as Laura told us they will be going out of business soon. I stopped at Laura's craft/yarn store and was able to get a couple Velcro straps to attach things to my backpack. Today we have a wine dinner at Audubon Inn this evening. They had no inexpensive rooms remaining, so we are overnighting at the River's Bend Inn B&B in Mayville as we don't want to drive home after consuming much wine. Food: 7:50 am Chocolate chip danish, 101 g blackberries, coffee Exercise: 9:00-10:40 am Walk through Schmeeckle