Tuesday Evening Musings

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Today was the day to think about money. I scheduled my payments (a credit card and the crawl space work) and deducted all my automatic payments (gas & electric, water, car) to get May’s checkbook in order. The Kentucky Derby Festival is ramping up. The balloon glimmer is Thursday; the glow is Friday; and the race is Saturday. The mini-marathon/full marathon is also Saturday, as is the opening of Churchill Downs for the spring meet. They’ve moved the Pegasus Parade to Sunday….I guess because they’ve made next Thursday (the parade has always been on the day before the Oaks as long as I can remember) into that “Thurby” thing for locals (whereas the Kentucky Oaks used to be “Louisville’s day at the Downs”). I don’t know what they’ll do if “Thurby” starts getting overrun with out-of-towners. Right now I’m watching the sunset, or what’s left of it, from the live camera in the lighthouse in Biloxi, Mississippi. There’s a retirement home for sailors not too far from this live camera site. Too expensive; plus, you have all those hurricanes. I’ll stay here with my tornadoes, thank you. My friends’ son is having his confirmation tomorrow night, and I’ll be going to that instead of playing Putt Putt. I have a doctor’s appointment on Friday, then I’m off (well, I’m always off ) for a get-the-heck-out-of-town-during-Derby excursion. Where am I going? Heck if I know, but y’all will be the second to know! I hope everyone has a great evening, whatever you’re doing. The photo shows I’ve always been a traveler. That’s me, in my dad’s arms, with my mom, brother, aunt, and uncle at Mammoth Cave in 1964.