On Wednesday, we had a dinner invitation at the house of our colleague Lesa and her husband Jay, along with their daughter. It was a lovely evening, cool but with sun, and we spent the time before dinner out on their back deck. Lesa even brought the supper table out on to the porch so we could dine al fresco. Supper was excellent, and afterwards Lesa and Jay broke out three different kinds of ice cream, along with the peanut butter bars I had brought. It was certainly good living.

After supper, the five of us played Apples to Apples, a game in which players submit a card in their hands in an attempt to get a judge to agree that it is a good match for a subject card (like “New York”). It is a well-designed game, with people getting good fun out of some of the lengths to which people go to try to match things up. I eventually won the game by getting to seven cards first, so that was a bonus to a fun evening.