Memorial Day

Today is the official holiday, but as many reminders tell us, it's a solemn day of remembrance of all those Americans who have lost their lives or become missing in action. We also remember the countless others who have died as a result of wars. War, no matter how sacred the cause, is a tragedy. We recently re-watched Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War. How sad to see families divided, facing their brothers and sisters on the field of battle, but every war is like that. Everyone belongs to the family of humankind. We pray for peace.

Except for getting more mosquito bites, today was pretty uneventful. We did some laundry and played some pool. We put some thread sealing tape on one of the water connections at the filter where we've had a leak. We looked over our route and plans for the next couple of weeks and changed a couple of reservations.

I made Gina's Skinny chicken cordon bleu for supper, but substituted smoked Gouda for Swiss cheese. It came out delicious, and we have leftovers. I like to plan so we don't have to cook every night.

We watched the final episode of the modern BBC Sherlock (The Great Game). We always use the closed captioning to help us decipher British accents, and having the TIVO to backup and replay scenes we didn't quite catch helps too. The episode moves so quickly that we needed all the help we could get to keep up with the action.

On our walk tonight, we were mobbed by gangs of mosquitoes. These we could definitely see! Some of our earlier bites may have been from chiggers or something else tiny and nearly invisible, but not these. We turned and moved quickly to get away from the trees and high grass and back on to clearer, higher ground.