Nasty Weather, but a Good Day

A somewhat different day. A good day. Wrote a draft for my December editorial this morning. (About time--we give it to the printer Wednesday!) Handled a bunch of other details, including a meeting with our events person about arrangements for our January contributing editors retreat. Then I took the afternoon off. Left the office after 1:00 and went to the office of the people who are managing our retirement money. Worked with one of the assistants there to get signed up for online access to my accounts. It seemed so simple when she helped me do it! I don't know why I had so much trouble trying to do it from home. Met with two of the financial planners for a quarterly update and discussion about some future plans. Enjoyable and reassuring.
Got home after driving through crazy, jammed-up traffic and relaxed for awhile. And then left for an early supper with Terry and Shirley Wuske. Today is her birthday, and we celebrated together at P.F. Chang's.
Some will remember in yesterday's post I mentioned the possibility of going to a high school football game tonight. We wimped out. The rain started before noon today and NEVER STOPPED. Meanwhile the temperature kept falling, and even by the time I was outside at 1:00 and again after 3:00, the air was cold, damp, raw.
Shirley had called to invite us to eat dinner with them, and by the time Evelyn and I both got home around 4:00, we decided that was a far better option than the cold, wet night our neighbors were to "enjoy" at the Lakota football stadium.

My picture can't do justice to the sweet
layers of chocolate, nuts, marshmallow, and other
delights in the pie Terry brought for dessert.

After dinner we came back to our house and enjoyed conversation, catching up, and a wonderful turtle-pie concoction from Perkins that Terry brought for us.
A good day ended with a good evening with good friends.
And the nasty weather didn't bother us at all.