Evelyn Dewars

A few years ago, a group of us ladies decided to get together once a month and have lunch together at a local restaurant. We want to make the effort to be sociable with each other but we also want to support the little local businesses, too. So our once a month lunch will be tomorrow and I’m especially looking forward to seeing my friend Suzi Strauss again.

Suzi moved away two years ago when her husband got a transfer to Chicago. They couldn’t sell their house because the market had started to tank, so they rented it out to a young couple.

Well, its a good thing they didn’t sell it, because her husband got laid off last month and now they’ve moved back here. I wish it was happier circumstances that brought them back to Nashville, but it will be good to see my old friend again regardless.

Depending upon how you define your summer, I think today is about the half way mark of this year’s summer. The kids around here go back to school on August 12. They don’t have much time left of their school vacation.

The grocery store had frozen pizza on sale, so I decided to get two (for $6.00 !) and have a treat. We almost never eat pizza any more. As a kid, we had pizza at least once a week because my Daddy worked for a pizza restaurant. But as we got older, the calories and fat in a pizza puts the pounds on, so we only have pizza once in a great while. Nowadays the delivery pizza has gotten so expensive, almost $20 for just one pizza, that I can’t afford it except as a special treat once in a while.