June 1

This was one of those Mondays that I met a shelter volunteer friend for breakfast. It is a fine way to begin the day and in this case, the month. During the cold weather season I worked on Sunday nights and he always volunteered for the Sunday night shift. After the shelter was shut down and the Monday morning clean-up crew arrived, we would go out for breakfast. We have tried to keep that up on Monday mornings and I think we have settled on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month.

We really don't have a great deal in common other than our ages and similar outlooks on life in general, but we have a comfortable friendship and easy conversation. We both have Red Access Memberships to the Springfield Cardinals but we rarely see each other at the ballpark.

I did manage a little quiet time before our breakfast meeting, but decided to save the blogging for this evening. I forgot that it was the first of the month and meant to step on the scale for a weight check this morning. I guess I'll have to do that tomorrow. 

Although I didn't have a separate exercise time today, I do feel pretty good about the work activity for the day. Tomorrow I'll work in some exercise to go with the activity of yard work. Most of this week will be a little cooler than yesterday and today, but as the summer days get warmer I may move my online time to the evening and try to begin the work/exercise part of my day a little earlier. Maybe that will help me to get more than two or three hours of work in before calling it a day. 

Maybe not.
We'll just have to see.

It's a beautiful evening in the Ozarks of SWMO. It's a comfortable 81 (27 C) degrees and the night sounds are beginning to make themselves heard as the sun sets in the west.
There is nothing particularly extravagant or special about my life, and yet I feel very blessed to live it. 

Rest well, my friends.
Let's do this again tomorrow.

John