Yoomid

As Wifey pointed out, it's been very yoomid...it's that time of year in Miami.  Wifey and Edna came back to the house Tuesday night, and it was great to compare weekend tales.  I was in NYC with D2, and they visited their friend Linda up in Vero Beach.

They reported Linda's oceanfront condo was lovely, but Vero had little going on.  It's a series of gated communities, and the occasional shopping and dining area.  Gertrude Stein would have noted that there's no there there.

I'm spoiled with where we live, I guess.  I enjoy the quiet of our little Village, but really like the fact that a 20 minute drive later there is more to do than I'll ever get around to doing.

Last night I met Edna and Wifey woke up from post wedding dress shopping naps, and we decided to go out.  I poured Edna and myself a few martinis, and Wifey drove us to Titanic, near UM.  I shared the history of the place with Edna -- it was the Flick Coffeehouse, the place where David Crosby discovered Joni Mitchell.  All of the great singer-songwriters hung in the 305 then -- Coconut Grove was Greenwich Village South, in the winter time.  They just happened to decide to go to LA, and that city became the epicenter of the music.

After we ate, we walked around the UM campus -- Edna had never visited.  We ended up on some rocking chairs overlooking the intramural field -- Wifey reminisced about watching my law school friends and I play softball in the early to mid 80s. 

We came  home, and Edna and I went for a swim -- Wifey watched from the sidelines.  The water was lovely -- the mosquitoes tolerable.  It was a lovely end to a terrific night.

Tonight we have a farewell get together for Michelle, a part time lawyer with the firm.  She's been here a few years, and brought us a major case -- a drug addicted teen who drowned while on an outing with a rehab center.  We recovered for the young man's mother.

I think we'll just toast her downstairs at Trulucks.  I don't plan to stay long -- Wifey and Edna will be joined by long time friend Diane, and I think we're meeting in the Grove for dinner.  Lots of ladies and me -- story of much of my life.

Edna will be staying through the weekend, and then decamping to Miami Beach -- the Raleigh Hotel, where her man Marc will join her.  We plan to spend the Fourth with them -- we'll probably Uber to and from -- and see the fireworks together...

So Summer drags along, hot and humid...we give thanks to the great invention --air conditioning.

It could be worse.