Long day. We had to be up by 6 because Dick had to go to Sheboygan to have Sue check his blood again AND to see Dr. Hodous for his feet. Then we dropped Mother's medicine off for her and went grocery shopping. With all of that, we made it home by 11:00AM which I thought was pretty good.

This afternoon, I found time to take a nap and clean the bathrooms before 4:30PM. Remember, today is the day that I got to read my poem that received runner up status in the contest cosponsored by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Green Bay Symphony. My friend Jane and I drove up to Green Bay and had dinner at a Mexican Grill in the same shopping center at the Barnes and Noble that was our final destination.

After we ate, we went right over to the bookstore and got our seats for the poetry readings. Ellen Cort, who was the first poet laureate of Wisconsin was there. She actually remembered meeting me before, (I am thrilled). Audrey, the coordinator of the event spoke. She told us that there were 306 poems entered in the contest so I am really pleased to have come in the top 30. Then all the selected poems were read. If the authors were there, they read their own, so I got to read mine. What a neat evening.

Then I bought Jane and me each a huge cookie to eat on the way home. It was a nice night for a drive. Sure glad the event wasn't last night. It would have been impossible.

Last night as I was going to bed, I was watching Chelsea sleep and remembered a dog that belonged to my ex father in law's cousin, Jack Johnston. The Johnstons were fishermen. I mean they fished for a living out on the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Newport Beach. Jack and Mary had a small boat and went out to catch ocean fish that they sold to distributors and fish processors. They also had a dog. When they would go out, they always took the dog. They would throw a line over the side for this dog and when it got a fish in the line, it would actually bring the fish in. It learned to pull the line in and wrap it around something they had rigged up for him. I know that Mary's heart just about broke when that dog died.

Have a nice Friday.

Mary