Taking leave--

I am going to take a long awaited trip to a friends house in Iowa City, about 300 miles away. It would probably be much easier to stay home, BUT I am going to go for a couple days. I have finished all the laundry, baked banana bread, cookies and made a large pot of soup for Dwight to eat in my absence. I need to "teach" him to make oatmeal in the microwave so he can have breakfast while I am away. I doesn't matter if he does a good job, he only uses the oatmeal as a carrier for the brown sugar and heavy whipping cream he adds to the cereal. If he is feeling really healthy, he adds blueberries, raspberries or black raspberries to the oatmeal. I, on the other hand, eat the oatmeal for my cholesterol, with skim milk and fruit from the above selection. Dwight milked cows as a boy and got used to eating the cream on everything and, lucky for him, is not bothered by high cholesterol or being overweight-both of which have plagued me most of my adult life. I have been planing to visit my friend for several weeks, but finding a few days of good weather has been difficult, it sounds good from Thursday to Sunday so I am leaving in the morning and looking forward to my mini vacation. I am supposed to be on a work detail for my friend, who is getting her house ready to sell, but knowing all the catching up we have to do, we may just sit and drink coffee and talk on and on for hours. That is the best kind of friend to have, isn't it? We have been friends for 30 years and met under strange circumstances, but were are very close, in spite of the miles between us. It is a wonderfully sunny day today-I hope for a few more of those this week. I'll update you on
Dwight's "vacation" when I return.