I had some big writing days over the weekend, but fell short these past two days. Workmen were here on Monday, infringing on my creative time. Tuesday was an early morning with my granddaughter while my son was stuck on jury duty. We did use our newly renewed Regal Unlimited movie passes to continue the Matinee Monday tradition with the “Lost City,” after an evening of mediocre bands trying to mimic Rolling Stones and CCR tunes. My wife also attended the Chalk Festival at the Venice airport after we enjoyed brunch at a neighbors home. In addition, there was a warm-up, happy hour for the bad band performance. All in all, busy retirement times continue.

We’ve gone to the hardware store two consecutive days and finished a few small projects around the house. We hope to get our remaining overhead lights installed yet this week. A painter did some warranty touch-up work while I watched the fifth episode of Winning Time. I’m also proud to mention that I won my first bracket jackpot by picking Kansas to go all the way.

I gave up my free ticket for the final Braves Spring Training game this week to babysit. The regular season now begins, but the games in our back yard won’t be back until next year. Our next big event at the Neighborhood Stadium is the Memorial Weekend Patriotic Pops concert. I did get in a first this Spring with a ride to the game on a golf cart.

Speaking of golf, it’s Masters week and Tiger may play after all. I’ll be anxious to watch the coverage this weekend. We have two more sets of visitors before we head to Singer Island for our 21st wedding anniversary on April 20th. It’s a far cry from China that we had originally planned before the Covid mess. We were trying to be clever in celebrating this Hallmark China gift occasion but it simply wasn’t to be.