We are finally back to some gorgeous weather around here — after a couple of days of rain, thunderstorms, and those ridiculous high winds.

[Picture moi: at 2AM, in my summer nightgown and my raincoat and flip-flops, out in the high winds and driving rain, trying to keep everything on my porches from blowing clear down the road…]

It’s over now!!

However… a heat wave is on it’s way.

Yes. Relentless sun and temps in the mid-90s Fahrenheit for the next several days. But I’ll take it.

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Yesterday was a great day, disregarding the weather.

I spent 5 hours (!!) with that wonderful client who is back from Florida now. She and I had such a great afternoon. I just love the conversations that she and I have. She is so passionate, funny, smart, well-traveled — and she’s 88 and has seen so much of life (she was a chaplain until she retired).

Really, the time just flew. I have no idea if the Agency will be putting her on my schedule again or not. I sure hope so, but we shall see.

(They’re starting me with a new client on Sunday evenings — a retired minister. United Church of Christ. Only minor cognitive issues and his wife will be there the whole time, which always makes the job easier. Should be very interesting.)

When I got home yesterday, it was still early afternoon, so not only was I able to do yoga again, for a change, I was also able to work on the novel for a few hours.

It felt incredible — to just be able to get lost in the writing again.

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Okay. There is not much to post about today. But here’s this!! Yay!

Tomorrow, the tour resumes in Hamburg, Germany. Tickets are sold out. But there’s a show on Wednesday in Rochefort, France that still has tickets available!!

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And I think that is it. I have a phone appointment scheduled with Social Security here in a few minutes. (They’re trying to take all my retirement money away, so you can guess I’m pleased as punch about that!)

After that, I gotta scoot to town and see my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man!!

Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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All righty!!!

Yesterday’s driving-back-from-town music!!

I absolutely LOVE this song, gang. Never get tired of it! I have a crystal clear memory of hearing it on the school bus radio in Cleveland, back in 1969. Not that I liked it or didn’t like it when I was 9, but it was such a memorable song….

Anyway!! It’s a great song for driving along those backroads now.

Merle Haggard, “Okie From Muskogee”, 1969. Enjoy, gang!!

“Okie From Muskogee”

We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We don’t take our trips on LSD
We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.

We don’t make a party out of lovin’;
We like holdin’ hands and pitchin’ woo;
We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like them hippies out in San Francisco do.

I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightning’s still the biggest thrill of all.

Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won’t be seen.
And football’s still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids they still respect the college dean.

And I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
And we still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightning’s still the biggest thrill of all.

We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

c – 1969 – Merle Haggard, Roy Burris