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I went out with a friend tonight.  We went to the bar at an inn in the town of Essex Connecticut, which was burned down the British during the Revolutionary war,and somehow this inn remained.  It had been an inn since 1776.  I know that in terms of many of the places in the world, that is young, but here, in the US, it’s pretty old, as old as our country.

They have a piano player every Saturday night, who has a sing-along.  There is the piano, and a guitar, and a washboard and spoons.  Everyone in the bar sings along with songs from 60’s and 70’s, and show tunes, and Irish drinking songs.  It was so much fun!

We got there early enough to get a table, because the bar is small and there aren’t many tables.  Nor bar stools.  We had a little food, a few glasses of wine and we sang along, and danced in our seats.  The picture is one I took when the guy in the turquoise shirt was singing, he’s 81 years old.  There are pictures of riverboats covering the walls.  The crowd ranges from young, like mid 20’s to my age.

Fun place to  be.

It lifted my spirits to be out, with people, having fun.  I showed my friend the new FB picture that Scott’s girlfriend Betty put up a week ago.  The other ones I’d seen showed her as a blond and from a distance.  This one is a head shot up close, with her hair more of a brownish color about the same as mine, which is light brown with blond highlights.  I thought she was very attractive for a 60-something woman.  My friend said, yes, she is but she’s weathered.  She looks older than you.  She looks like a smoker, maybe a drinker at one time.  Like she was really pretty in her 20’s….”

Which I gotta say, made me smile.  lol.  She’s younger than me, by maybe a year or two. Scott always said I was the oldest woman he’d ever been with.  I’m 64, 3 years younger than him. Well, technically 2 until the end of January.  He also told me she’s in her 60’s.  Whatever.

I don’t think she’s still reading my blog, I hope not.  I was not stalking her.  I used the search feature on FB to find someone else, but it runs pics of your recent searches when you do that.  Since I rarely use it, her picture and Scott’s both came up as recent searches.  When I saw that she had a new pic of herself, I clicked on it.  Before she had a picture of dragon flies, or something.  She doesn’t post much. I think her last post was 2 years ago.

Well, it’s off to bed.  I am up way late tonight, but I had so much fun.  I wanted to get it written down here.  I’ve been in such a funk for a couple of days, it was so nice to be out having a good time, being somewhere that felt alive with human connection.

Love and light all…-