Happy Memorial Day, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             So, how are we all getting by this washout of a weekend?

                           David and I spent Saturday and Sunday going in and out of the city seeing shows.  I will post more on those later, but let me say, Saturday we saw "Jerome," which was atrocious.  The compensation was seeing on Sunday the Broadway transfer of "Titanique," which is bigger and even better than it was downtown.  So our weekend is not too bad.

                            Still, this day has emotional importance for me.  On this day in my childhood and adolescence, we would go over to my grandparents and Aunt Katty's house at 702 Nassau Street in North Brunswick, sit on the front porch, and watch as their Memorial Day Parade marched up the street from Livingston Avenue, right past us, and down to the Georges Road mall, I think.  It was an exciting event, followed by a cookout in the backyard, the first of the season.  Rain never mattered because the front porch was constructed to shield us from rain.  As for the cookout, it turned into a n indoor picnic.

                            I have always wanted to have one of those Civil War picnics, where you go to the gravesite of a loved one, spread a blanket, and have picnics by the grave.  Very Southern; but why not up here, darlings????????????????????????

                               Yes, this is the unofficial start of Summer, though you would never know it from outside.  The hot weather we had this past midweek should have been the weekend weather we were meant to have now.  Some things just cannot be contrrolled.

                                   But get out that bunting and be your most patriotic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  Even if it means watching James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy!"