Welcome home

Monday found us doing more of the same. I called a different homeowner’s insurance company but learned that they had all the exposure they could allow in this area. This is a place where hurricanes can and have struck. We will have to stay with Foremost at a higher rate. I made several plans for lunches throughout the week. I also played 9 holes of golf with Glenn Combs and stunk up the course. We played early and finished about the same time others from our park did. I had virtually begged one of the 5 players to let me play with them several times throughout the season to no avail. Our neighbor, Tom, came home after being in rehab hospitals and hospitals for 7 months. He has had Parkinson’s disease for as long as we have known him but had suffered septic shock that nearly killed him. His wife, Judy, has been run ragged during that time visiting him. But now she will have him at home taking care of him by herself. Hamels had given us a skirt steak, one cut of meat we had never dealt with. I barbecued it but didn’t realize it was 3 steaks rolled together, so I cooked most of it as a roast and then separated them. We invited Tom and Judy for dinner so she wouldn’t have to cook. She had to bring him across our street (without traffic) and then into our house with a walker. We made the steaks into fajitas and served them in flour tortillas. They left around 7 when the men’s NCAA basketball finals began. We had thought Butler might win this year, but UCON did.