Tuesday was quite busy – I even took a half-day off from work. We started by going to get Cessy, our sick kitty, from the animal hospital. He was feeling much better, but we will not know how he is doing in his lung until we get the next x-ray, and that will be on Monday. We got Cessy stashed in our room and bathroom, and I stayed with him for a few hours, mostly in the form of my napping.
In the late afternoon, we headed down toward Canton to visit Aunt Mary. She had recently been to the 150th anniversary celebration of Gettysburg, and we got to hear all about her trip (it sounded like a good one). We only got to visit for about forty-five minutes, because Aunt Mary had to get her two cats to the vet for a check-up, and we had to get back to Cardinal for our Tuesday supper with Dale and Carlene. We helped Aunt Mary get the cats into separate boxes, and then got them into her car, and we headed northward.
After we checked on Cessy and gave him his medication, we went over to Cardinal for supper. We like the Tuesday night supper tradition – we get to visit with Dale and Carlene, and we like the food at Cardinal. After supper, Mer visited with her mom while they took care of pill-sorting for the week, and Dale and I retired to the library for brandy and cigars. Actually, we just visited in the library, but we did not miss the accouterments. We usually stay for Jeopardy!, but we could not on this Tuesday, as we were meeting a former student at our house.
We had seen Ingrid a week or so ago at a graduation party for her brother. She had just graduated college and is going off to teach French in Virginia, so we wanted to see her before she heads out. Ingrid likes art, and we had been talking about the artist Caravaggio when we saw her last, so we all ate ice cream and watched the Power of Art episode on Caravaggio. I had to go to bed pretty soon after we finished watching the show, but Mer and Ingrid visited together until almost 1:00 am. We are both looking forward to hearing how Ingrid’s first year in teaching goes.