We had a light breakfast and enjoyed our morning coffee. With company due at noon we were not inclined to do any overly physical work this morning. Linda made a quick run to the supermarket and then spent the late morning finishing food preparations. I worked in my office installing operating system updates, updating the BCM page on our website, and editing/uploading blog posts.
Our step-granddaughter, Katie Bortz, is leaving for college in a few days so Linda arranged to have her over for lunch along with our daughter, Meghan, and son-in-law, Chris (Katie’s dad). They arrived around noon and stayed until almost 5 PM, a longer visit than usual. For lunch we had chickpea salad, corn-on-the-cob, collard greens cole slaw, and potato salad. Meghan made two desserts at home and brought them: cheesecake and vegan oatmeal bars.
Grand-daughter Katie (L) waiting for a slice of cake baked by her step-mom (our daughter, Meghan, on right).
Katie got a head start on college while still in high school and took several AP classes. She also tested out of some basic classes so she will hit the ground running with at least some courses that are directly related to her interests (biology, specifically animals), and major (wildlife and fisheries). She will be moving into one of the dorms and paired up with another freshman girl during orientation. They have the room arrangement worked out, at least on paper, and I expect that everything will fall into place.
For dinner we had leftovers from yesterday’s meal after which I chatted with Chuck for a while on the phone about refrigerators in buses. I worked on blog posts after that and was going to participate in the SLAARC info net at 8 PM. Linda noticed that there was a program about the Real Scotland Yard on Lansing PBS at that time, followed by an episode (rerun) of Sherlock. Harvey (AC8NO) was the net control operator for the info net and as soon as he called for check-ins I did an “in and out.” Once he acknowledged that he had received my check-in I settled in to watch the programs. After that it was off to bed to play a few iPad games before going to sleep.