Yesterday
(Sunday) was a beautiful day, and Eliana and Maya had no specific plans for the
morning, so we took two cars and met Simmie at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in
Providence. The zoo recently opened a brand new children’s section that is
really quite nice. It includes some water play, and it was warm enough by late
morning that the girls were able to play in the sprinklers they have there. We
saw about half of the zoo before the temperature became a bit too high and we
had to leave to head back to New York. But we had a wonderful time.
We
had an uneventful drive back to New York, and are busy playing catch-up from the
wonderful five days with our family. Our car went in for routine maintenance,
the air conditioning folks came to check out the system, and all went well.
The
only annoyance was that we had received a checking account statement from the
bank. Now I know many of you younger folk, and even the older ones, are
thinking, “why in the world are they still having to reconcile their checking
account?” Well, we just never got around to setting up the process on line, and
in any case, old habits die hard. But the trouble is that I am not completely
reliable at these tasks. We’re still not quite sure what happened, but I simply
could not get the account to reconcile. We don’t drive ourselves crazy about
small discrepancies, but this one was on the order of $300. Finally Barry
convinced me to abandon this activity and turn in for the night. This morning,
he discovered that I had made a mistake last month that explained the
discrepancy. I don’t know how I managed to “balance” the last statement, but
somehow I did. Bottom line: I guess I am not really quite ready for prime time.
As I am typing this, Barry is looking over the checks I wrote for the bills
that accumulated while we were up in Sharon. Yes, I know, we should have all
that done automatically, but those old habits….
The
rain seems to have moved out and it sounds like this will be a very nice week.
Try to take in a bit of June if you can.
Love,
Rebecca
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