Loose Leaf Notes

1. While in Bethany Beach Delaware for Joe’s family reunion, I learned how to play Wordle, saw dolphins and had clean fingernails for the first time all summer (from swimming in the pool and not gardening).

 2. Joe’s 95-year-old mom started our Scrabble game with the word BEACH on a double word score.

3. She won. I had to skip a turn because I had no vowels on my rack or vowels on the board to work off.  Then, I got stuck with a Q at the end of the game, which means minus 10 points from my score.

4. I never got in the ocean because it was too cold for me, but I got lots of pool swimming in.

5. We stayed at three different places (sister’s houses and a hotel) for the week, and I had three bathing suits that I was always trying to dry off.

6. I never got in the ocean the week before when I was visiting my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts either, but I got close. See HERE. 

7. At Bethany, Joe’s mom got a celebrity greeting when she made it down to the beach one day.

8. As far as I know, she’s the last in the line of her generation.

9. I didn’t play cornhole but I did get to play with a couple of babies.

 10. I also saw the best fireworks of my life.

11. I named a few of them, as is my tradition. The only name I remember now was “beets in a blender.” I don’t think this is that.

12. Thanks Angie for treating us to this great meal on the Boardwalk, and to Barb and Rose for some sweet meals at the house.

13. Now it’s back to the pool life in Floyd, a garden full of weeds and playing Scrabble with my Floyd friends. More on the Bethany Beach week HERE. 

_______Thirteen Thursday