CAPE SAN BLAS

Well, here I go again, packing for another trip. My friend Larry emailed me in the spring and entitled it “Don’t Fence You In”. And that’s about the truth for this summer.

We will leave Sunday for our new favorite spot on the Gulf Coast --- Cape San Blas, Florida. Brenda and her two children are going too as well as Rufus. We are leaving Jesse to stay at her home this time, since Laurie has been gone and will want the dog at home with her.

I hope that THIS time I can remember everything. I always seem to leave something at home. One time it was my entire make-up/bath stuff kit. Six of us girls went for a tennis weekend in Kentucky and I had to stop and buy a toothbrush and other essentials on the way.

Another time I went to Gatlinburg with another teacher for a conference and left all of my hang up clothes. I had to run over to the outlets at Pigeon Forge and buy some clothes for the meetings (oh, darn!).

For my week in North Carolina I had to make do with a $2.00 comb and brush because I forgot to pack my old faithful steel comb I have had since the sixties. (The genius likes this comb so much he began using it when we shared a bathroom in our old house. I would come into the bathroom to comb my hair and find it wet, so we had to have a heart-to-heart about it.) Anyway, for some reason I forgot to pack it for NC.

I don’t want to blame the genius for all these omissions because I am to blame also, but I will say that in the incidents of the make up/bathroom stuff and hang up clothes I had them downstairs in the kitchen ready to go and somehow they never made it to the car. (And guess who packed the car. Not me!) Now I have learned to search the kitchen to make sure everything goes.

So what happened when I left my phone and purse last week when traveling to the mountains? I guess I’ll just blame it on OLD AGE!!