Welcome to this update!
Our weather
news is that summer held on much longer than expected. It just started
getting fall-like over this past weekend.
In sports, Go
Bills! They’re doing great and looking really good, and we Bills fans are
excited after 20+ years of mediocre to poor teams. Also in sports, my
son, Levi, had his last soccer game this past Saturday when they played in the
championship game for their league. They didn’t win, but they haven’t
been to the championship in many years (ever?) so it was exciting.
In other news,
my quartet lost our bass. He is a young guy and just started attending
the University of Buffalo, and he’s finding college life too demanding to continue
in our quartet. We found another guy in our chorus that said he would
sing with us, and we’re excited to start over with him, but it does mean
starting over, so we won’t be singing anywhere for a while.
We had a fun
time with my brother, Ken, and his wife Carrie back on 9/22. They stopped
by our area on their way to the New England area to see fall colors. I’m
afraid that with the unusually warm weather I mentioned earlier, there weren’t
many colors to see this year. I know our leaves are just now beginning to
turn. Anyway, they parked their fifth wheel at a nearby campground, and
some of my local family went and saw their setup there. Then later we all
gathered at Ella’s house and fed them garbage plates, our local culinary
specialty. In case you don’t know what a garbage plate is, you take home
fries (or something similar) and mac salad, cover that with meat of your choice
(hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, chicken fingers), and then smother all
that with meat sauce and any other toppings you choose (onions, ketchup,
mustard, etc.). It is completely delicious, and they loved it. And
as an added bonus, they got their annual supply of cholesterol all in one
meal! It was great to catch up on our families together with them—we talked
for a long time!
I think that’s all of the news I have for this month, so until November!
