Unky Herb in Action

Unky Herb was washing dishes, doing his tousan a good deed, and I surprised him with this photo. He's quite a handy, helpful guy to have around.

I played some tennis in the middle of the day. It was about 62 degrees and there was a breath of wind, but the sun was shining and the crab apple trees continued their job of beautifying the neighborhoods. Two of the geezer quads are off to Surprise, Arizona, on Thursday to compete in Super Senior Nationals. We'll still have a quorum for the weekend, but a slightly altered group. Today we had two good sets and a couple of very long points where neither side would yield the point. It was good for our conditioning and perhaps our fading memories. Today we spent about ten minutes while warming up, trying to remember the actor who played Gomer Pyle. We remembered his Indianapolis singing engagements and his TV shows, but not his name - for about ten minutes. But it's hard to shut out the gang of geezers for very long. Jim Nabors.

Near sunset I went in search of a vantage point to watch the sun pass into the earth's shadow, and perhaps to color the sky in yellows, oranges and pinks. I stopped at Cherokee Street next to the Smith Avenue Bridge - also known as the High Bridge. I was a little early for the show so I walked out onto the bridge to get a view of the Mississippi as it flows by the Capitol City, the Saintly City. It was a beautiful, crisp late April evening.

And the sunset came as predicted at 8:13 p.m. St Paul time. It was pretty, but not spectacular. Every one is different.



Then I came home to post this blog entry, my 601st of this adventure.