Golf at Grand View, Visit from the Girls, and Harvest Grille

Update May 19 to May 25, 2019

-- Olive and Lucy Visit on Tuesday

Lucy and new friend, Pinky

It's hard to believe that Lucy has been visiting weekly for about four years and this will be her last full summer with us. She will graduate from Pre-School and move on to Kindergarten this fall so we make sure that we get at least one day a week with Lucy and her baby sister, Olive.

Olive continues to impress us with her various new skills which include giving us a vigorous raspberry whenever the mood strikes her as well as the increasing velocity and trajectory of objects that she flings from her high chair. If something is missing, it's best to start searching in the general vicinity of her high chair as it's her habit to toss things from the tray as soon as you put it in the tray.

Her dining habits have been improving. She likes to use a spoon, especially if she can stab herself in the forehead with it. She would much rather eat whipped cream off the plate using her fingers rather than a spoon, but that's only following in Lucy's footprints as that was her favorite trick as well.

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-- A Visit to Harvest Grille Yields Fish Tacos

Patti at Harvest Grille 

After four o'clock on a Thursday, you will find a good deal on Fish Tacos and drinks at the Harvest Grille in Jefferson, MA. It's two minutes from the house and a warm summer evening is a good reason to let someone else handle the grilling. Patti has the imagination to try different things from time to time as they have a lot of Happy Hour special pricing for appetizers and small plates. I'm stuck on fish tacos. Sorry.

What's nice about it is you can buy one taco at a time so if you're really hungry you can go for three or more. But, I generally get two, which is enough for me. We are really lucky to have a wide range of restaurants so near the house including fine dining, family-style restaurants, diners, and quick-bite coffee shops that range from Mexican to Thai, to Chinese, to American and more.

-- A Grand Day at Grand View Golf in Leominster

The Gazebo between Hole 4 and 5

Just a few minutes up Route 68 and along some backroads is the shortcut to Grand View Country Club in Leominster. We love this little course that has a "grand view" as well as a few rough spots along its fairways. But, although it's a short course, it will make you work hard to get a low score. With so many good courses to choose from it's hard to decide where to go each week. We often make a decision on where to play golf based on where we want to stop for lunch after golf. In that case, heading north brings a lot of restaurants into play for us on the return trip. Today's rounds did not yield very good scores, in fact, we didn't par any of the holes. Patti used the round to practice her putting with more than one ball on the putting surface, but that's okay, we deemed it a practice round this early in the season.

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READING UPDATE
The Life and Times of Thomas Becket, by Richard Winston

This biography of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, written in 1967 was the first full-scale attempt at a biography in about 100 years. What I like about this interpretation of the stories, legends, and commentaries about Becket is that the author, Richard Winston, turned to letters Becket wrote and other source material generated in Becket’s lifetime to provide a more authentic view of his life and times.

I’m always interested in any investigation in the church-state phenomenon, and there can be no more compelling life-tale than that of Thomas Becket, who was ultimately murdered by his King.