Nancy woke me up out of a sound sleep. “David is here.”
I was very confused. Why? Were we going somewhere? What time was it? What was happening? I sleep in the basement on the 40+ year old fold out couch. In the very dark. In the coolness. It is great. I came out of the basement and sure enough, Dave had been out riding his bike (as he does) and stopped by. We had a nice visit. I was glad (later) that she woke me up.
We went to the grocery store and made good decisions.
We went to Paradise Springs Nature Area. It is a loop walk (I got that from a website) around a spring fed lake (stocked with trout) by the ruins of a resort that operated in 1937-1948. It once had a big hotel and even a horse track, but all that is left is part of a spring house. The pond is 5 feet deep and 30,000 gallons of water flow from the spring each hour. WOW. The water was cold – it said it maintains a year round temperature of 47 degrees. Why? Why wouldn’t it be colder in the winter? I think it would be colder in the winter. I think it just doesn’t get warmer than 47. I went in it. It was cold, but cold is so, so good.
I had an absolutely inspired idea for dinner. We went to Michael’s Italian Restaurant on Sunset Drive in Waukesha. Nancy and her friend, Judy, went there one time and had a really nice time. That was approximately 46 years ago. I had never been there. It is on the street between the house where we grew up and our high school. Every once in a while, we comment on how it has been there a long time and we never go there. So, we went.
Nancy thought they had changed the inside a bit in the last four decades. We had a lovely meal. We did a thing!