F & F

One of the great things about living in a small town relatively close to Toronto is that visiting is never an issue. What's even nicer is that we rarely have to do any of the visiting. We get to entertain and that's just great by me. Our friends Mario and Darlene and their daughter Hannah came for a visit the last few days. Last night after the kids were put to bed we stayed up until 2am drinking and playing euchre. Getting up early in the morning hungover, while never pleasant, actually made me a little giddy. I haven't been sloshed in years and while in past moments of hungoveredness I would question why I was so stupid to have imbibed so much the night previous, that question never entered my clouded noggin' this am. We laughed hard and long and often to the point where our cheeks hurt and our sides stitched. We had my favourite hangover cure of water, coffee, bacon, toast and eggs over-easy. We walked and talked all over town and around until the effects of too much alcohol were gone. And these are simple things which many a peruser of this blog will find boring and/or meaningless, but it is true of the old adage 'the best things in life are free'. Here's to simple pleasures shared with Friends and Family.