I'm going sailing. Maggie and John have a 25 ft ketch and have invited us along to sail out into the blue seas of the Gulf with them. I have prepared a picnic of lemon pepper chicken, some home-made potato salad and some of that delicious white mountain bread I'm so fond of. I also put some of Joanne's famous secret recipe cheesecake in the cooler and some home-made lemonade. I don't know if we will stop off anywhere this time or just keep sailing. One day I would love to sail down to Key West.


Last time we went out on the Gulf we sailed up to little Egmont Key, an uninhabited island that has a ruined fort on it. We took the barbecue and cooked-out on the beach -real multi level American burgers in sesame seed buns, with the best ground beef, cheese, salad, ketchup and mayo - all washed down with some cans of ice cool Bud from the cooler. Then we sliced up a huge juicy red watermelon and lay around in the sunshine chattering. Life doesn't get any better than this.