Sue Woolfe

Now that we have had our first frost and the temperature is much lower at night, I need to get my coats out and my sweaters, too. All my short sleeved shirts need to be packed up for the winter. I used to have a big drawer full of gloves. I really don’t like to have cold hands and would love to wear gloves from October until April to keep my hands warm during all the cold months here.

Have you ever wanted to rent an entire movie theater? My brother used to do that for the Star Trek movie premieres. He was just crazy about Star Trek and when each movie came out, he got about 20 of his best Trekker friends to pitch in and they rented their own theater for the first showing on the first night. It didn’t really cost all that much and he loved being one of the first to see the new movies.

I’ve fallen behind on watching the new movies. It seems like I have so much to do while the sun is up, and once it gets dark around 8:30 I still have to deal with cooking dinner and all the little household chores. By the time I’m ready to watch a movie, it is too late. I will just have to set aside one night for movies and make a point to get one at Redbox on my way home.

We have begun the dog days of summer. Every day is hot with a chance of thunderstorms. Thankfully, we have not heard much about hurricanes. Maybe this year will just be hot and not so much other bad weather. The heat I can bear, as I work inside all day. The worst part is getting into a steamy hot car and a steering wheel too hot to hold.

For a while the popular social activity was to join a book club, then once a month we would get together at someone’s house and spend a couple of hours talking about the book. But then people started having conflicts and not showing up. Next thing you know, it’s down to just one or two other people, and if you aren’t really friends with those few people, it gets easy to stop going.

I guess I need to find a new book club or maybe some other kind of club to develop a new hobby. Going home alone every night gets boring.