I think I'm finally talked out.
When you've been married for over 40 years, you do run out of things to talk about, and so a house can become a very quiet place (unless you have little yappy dogs, who may make a lot of noise, but aren't very good conversationalists).
It's one of the things that cousins days are good for--reviving my ability to have an interesting conversation.
(I've decided that when we Pinata women get together for an overnight I'm going to call it a "Pinata cousins day,") because it really is so much like cousins day, but with a different group.)
Char picked me up yesterday morning and we drove to Pat's house where we settled in to chat. Audrey arrived not too long after that.
Since yesterday around 10:30 we have discussed the following topics (not an inclusive list, because I'm sure I've forgotten lots of things):
* religion
* politics
* Sarah Palin's butt
* perfect movies
* our trip to Russia
* foxes, coyotes, and moose (oh my!)
* our families
* diagraming sentences
* Rod Steiger's divorce
* The Baltimore Catechism
* undocumented workers
* libraries
* television shows we like and don't like
* poor grammar
* books we have read
* how the Beatles defeated communism
* sports
* Rachel Maddow
* whether bigotry is on the rise or on the wane
* advertising
* heretofore unspecified uses for burqas
* experiences we have all shared
* lizards
* pets
* pet lizards
* evolution in the Galapagos
* reporters in Afghanistan and Iraq
* Meg Whitman
* wine
* Osher Lifelong Learning
* priests we have known and liked or not liked
The list could go on and on and on, as did the conversation. We slid seamlessly from one topic to the next, moving ourselves from couches (where we were having wine and snacks) to the table where we had lunch, back to the couches, to the kitchen where we played several games of Mexican Train...
...to the table for dinner, back to the kitchen table for more chat, then to bed. In the morning we met again on the couches for coffee and talk and to watch the birds and squirrels cavorting in the back yard, then to the table for breakfast and to sit and talk for a couple more hours until Audrey announced (for the second time) that she really had to go home.
It was just wonderful. I just love having interesting people to talk with, and when they are people you've known more than half your life, so much the better.
Thanks, Pat. It was great!
2 comments:
Baltimore Catechism? Does it have a sky blue cover? I never opened that book.
Diagramming sentences? I tried to explain that to my wife. apparently the French don't do that. She would know. Her mother taught French in Quebec and French is her first language.
Poor grammar. I should have WENT for more education.
I just heard that in a movie. SHOULD HAVE WENT!!!
SARAH PALIN HAS A BUTT?
yes, the beatles did save the world. I especially liked it when John Lennon said, "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev," which Reagan quickly stole from him.
Rod Steiger got divorced?
Libraries? I go to flea markets for my books. I bring my old books back, I get credit for new books. If I can't find it at the flea market, I get it on Amazon for a penny. We read a lot but we have very small budget for books.
Lizard? We have a Geico salesman on our patio.
Rachel Maddow...informative usually.
Sarah Palin has a butt?....really?
(Char's daughter went to high school in Palmer, Alaska at the time when Sarah was attending school in Wasilla, and in her yearbook there is a photo of a basketball game in which Palin was playing--and from the photographer's angle, apparently you get a good picture of her butt. She could probably get a good price for that on eBay today!
And yes, the book with the blue cover. Either you didn't attend Catholic school, or you were a very bad boy!
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