Good Night to--

1. Perfect weather on a silver platter.
2. A drive past verdant green and blue marshland.
3. First squiggle of sunscreen for 2020.
4. The boardwalk.
5. A short walk at the beach and a rest in the sand when I drove down to Atlantic City to deliver Punchy to her young Mimi and Poppy. A few people wore masks, most did not. We had ours around our necks.
6. Old Atlantic City--a monument to soldiers, memories of Miss America, ornate architecture, South Jersey accents, saltwater taffy, breezes that whisper of grander days gone by.
7. Finding seashells for Sis, Dan, Fig and me--3 sun-bleached white clams, 1 small perfectly edged gray-blue scallop.
8. Soft sand.
9. Kids [two brothers and a sister] digging w pail and shovel, burying the big brother.
10. Passing the Pinelands on the Parkway. I want to go back there soon; it's been years.
11. Hawks slicing through the sky.
12. Memories of old friends and beach days all along the drive, from the Atlantic City Expressway to exit 172. 
13. "The New Yorker Radio Hour" from 6 to 7 pm.
14. Dinner w Sis and 2 friends.
15. Going to sleep in Connecticut, Buttercup snuggled tightly by my hip. Sis and I will go out on the water tomorrow--a private tour on Captain Bobby’s fishing boat.

Until tomorrow. Xx