Eventful Weekend

Hello all,

On Monday we may get the results of Friday's MRIs and we shall see if they show nothing wrong. This will support Bernice's speculation that the continued pressure of the bed rail as she left and entered the hospital bed, was the cause of the bad bruising in her thighs. Hard to tell at this point if there is much improvement but things are not worse.

Friend Laury arranged to have Margarita come to spend some time cleaning our house. Margarita is one of three sisters and her sister Pilar works for Laury cleaning her house. Sunday morning is a convenient time for Margarita and is fine with us. She has two girls, 5 and 10, whom one of the sisters can watch. Margarita is a whirlwind at cleaning: she is fast and got to places to clean that we believe may not have been touched for years. We are all for having her come every Sunday. We have a cleaning service who come in every three or four weeks with three people who stay for two hours. Margarita wins this competition hands and mop down.

Laury herself also came and spent time with Bernice on their Shakespeare work. This is notable for it is the first time that Bernice is spending time on her work. Bernice and Laury already co-edited a Romeo and Juliet publication for Focus Publications intended for high school and early college students. They are in the process of editing another Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure, and this work may be about 80% complete. It is a joy for me to see Bernice working with the printed manuscript pages. She is not quite up to spending much time with a laptop but admits to feeling more alive and happy with this start. While they were working on Shakespeare I loaded Laury's little iPod with Beethoven and Haydn until it was filled to capacity.

There were the usual calls from our sons getting mom's news and telling us of their activities. In the afternoon cousin Sylvia came from Brooklyn bearing exotic foodstuffs from that remote outpost. For Bernice's vegetarian tastes there was chummas, smoked trout, and taboulleh salad and for me she brought tasty corned beef and chocolate flaky rugelach. In addition there were frozen foods she had prepared, packaged, and labeled. She and I had to struggle to fit all this food into our two little freezers. I intend to take an inventory tomorrow for I will never remember the details of this abundance. A few months ago my dear Bernice insisted, for reasons of economy and her common sense, that I disconnect our large upright freezer which has served us for decades and was still operating. It now stands forlorn in the basement, with no mission, and not wanted by anyone I have contacted. My, could it hold tons of food.

Have a great week everyone!
love, Merwin