A BIT OF BUBBLY

DOC arrived in town last week and it's been a great week for the most part. As long as we don't talk about the swine flu and all of our aches and pains. (May all of our pains be Champagnes!)

We celebrated our 40th and it was very low key......exactly the way we both wished it to be. We had a very late lunch of fresh fish and roasted vegetables at one of our favorite restaurants. We made it home just in time for the cocktail hour and shared this most wonderful bottle of champagne. When my friend Sherron and I were in Napa last summer, we visited the Mumm sparkling winery. This was in one of the tastings we had sampled and I loved it. It proved perfect for the occasion.

We exchanged cards and laughed and also teared up over our 40 years together and the highs and lows of our joined lives. We both wondered where all the time had gone.

I would like to close with this poem. It was on one of the cards we shared.

TIME is too slow for those who wait,

too swift for those who fear,

too long for those who grieve,

too short for those who rejoice,

but for those who love,

time is eternity......................................... H. Van Dyke.

and so it goes