BRONXVILLE, New York, July 10, 2005 — It's a slow day with our friends. Leslie is going to work out in her home gym. Tom makes us pancakes. After a while we decide to walk down to the village. We have a great time looking at the neat houses on the way and window shopping the village and going to a coffee shop called Slave to the Grind. We climb the hill back to the house and after a bit of sorting around and showers and such we go off to Greenwich and find something to eat. Then we go to a little museum called the Bruce. They have a couple of interesting exhibits, one of photography and one of female Buddhas.

When we are all done with the museum we head home via Costco.

We buy desserts to contribute to the cookout that our friends' friends are having that we will go to tonight. We buy a seven-pound chocolate cake and and five-pound pie. We try to buy wine but this Costco has only White Zinfandel. Our friends buy other things they need...paper goods and fruit, one of those pole tree trimmers, eggs.

Visiting with friends of friends is always interesting. We walk down to the hosts' house with desserts we bought at Costco. I walk a couple of blocks carrying a seven-pound chocolate cake for ballast. The folks are nice. They are renovating a house. They have a friend from the city visiting and they have a young son. They grill some shrimp apps and then make shish kebabs on the grill. We talk about all kinds of things.

We walk back up the hill sans the heavy cake and pie. My friend Leslie and I feel great that we managed to leave the leftovers behind. Time for some sleep.