Three cheers!

Tonight Carol hosted bridge. She'd baked these sinful brownies with creamed cheese and had brewed a lovely pot of blood orange tea that she bought on her recent trip to see some shows in New York. The long hours and hard work of summer pay off in multiple winter vacations; Carol spent part of December in Hawaii, and leaves in February for an African safari. Here's to making a bucket list and checking things off it!

Tonight's games ended with a slam, artfully bid and boldly played by Macky Bell, the most senior member of our bridge club. I was lucky enough to be her partner, and when she took her final finesse and brought the slam home it felt like we'd won a triple overtime game against our archrivals! Here's to Macky, and her keen octogenarian mind!

Here's to winter on Ocracoke! In the last week I enjoyed a fabulous dinner with an extended group of friends that can never manage to be in the same place at the same time during the summer season (Thanks, Fess and Jennnifer!), a evening of hilarity and wine with ladies escaping their pre-schoolers, and a game night with Sundae and her adolescent children. Those are just the highlights. Not having anything to conflict with watching ACC basketball also gets a thumbs up from me. Go heels!