First, let me tell you how much I love my new LED desk lamp that allows me to write without awakening my loved ones.
Uncle Stevie, we hear (OK, everyone is snoring so I hear) the trains. Must mean cooler air and fall. Even though the train station is so close to us we don’t hear it much in the summer with the saturated air. The physicist (Jim) will be consulted on this. But all I know are the sounds. I’m the art, he’s the science. OK, don’t start singing Ebony and Ivory….
Soon I’ll be able to open the windows and purge our place of garlic and pot roast and other aromas. I love this time of year. Hate to say it but Hurricane Ike took a lot of leaves off the tops of the trees and we can actually see the city from here now. Not that I ask for more hurricanes, just prudent pruning from the city that will never happen. We do what we can.
Well, Steve, we’ve fixed the aerobed that Zoe popped and you and Nanny are welcome to visit anytime. If you fly or drive in, we’ll make sure to take you on a train. Love from Jimmy and Dee
Cooking with Dee 
Jim just awoke at 5 am and told me he hears the traffic more. Trains too. He says denser air (colder) conducts sound more effectively. Gotta love physics majors! Dee
I can’t get over how many little things that guy knows about! And, I’ve known him ALL his life. One grandmother read him the encyclopedia, the other one bought “How it works” books for him. In high school, when he wasn’t bugging the math/physics/chemistry teacher, he was at the library checking out books like “How to make and fly your own airplane” and “How to Rappel”! The tallest grain bin provided a ladder and sufficient height to make this last one a challenge. He never has gotten around to the airplane, thank goodness. Don’t ask him what artist or poet created some work, he won’t know. Gosh, he had trouble saying the months of the year when he was about 15 but he was teaching himself Morse Code. It was an exhausting ride, I must say but we are glad he’s yours now.
The flying his own plane idea has not gone out the window. As a matter of fact it is guaranteed to be a topic of conversation whenever we get in the car and start driving to see his loving family several hours away.
“We could learn how to fly and rent a plane and keep a car at the airport there and…” Yes, dear.