Still Cat-ching Up

Today is Memorial Day 2025. Our company has gone home and I've been slowly cleaning up, doing laundry, checking e-mail...not holiday fun, but necessary tasks to getting caught up.

My lunch companion in Scilla, Italy.

Life has been very active lately. We built a new house and have been slowly moving in over the last few months. In the midst of moving, we took a trip to Italy that we had planned over a year ago before we decided to build the house. Add in a few other personal trials onto an already full plate and to say I'm a little overwhelmed would definitely be an understatement.

This afternoon, I'm welcoming the solitude. Someone is mowing their lawn in the distance, the washing machine just sang it's little song to indicate the cycle is complete and I can't wait to sit on the porch and read a book.

Since today is the unofficial start of Summer, I'm going to enjoy one of my favorite pastimes...making a glass of flavored iced tea and curling up on the back porch with a few books. I say a few books because I've been known to have up to 5 on my nightstand. Yes, they get read very slowly, but I enjoy a bit of fiction, a little non-fiction, a memoir and maybe something like a daybook featuring one passage a day. Next up...Dear Writer by Maggie Smith.

While I would love to share pics from our recent trip to Italy or tell you just how much I love our new house, just for today, I wanted to pop in to say hello and hope you have been enjoying your holiday weekend.

More soon...