February 27, 2024
Yep! Tomorrow a piano and I will have a lot in common — and thankfully, it’s not our legs! It’s the number 88! Ye.ars for me, keys for the piano. I was thinking about that today and remembering that once, long ago — maybe 80 years ago – my grandmother gave me the most fun treat. I don’t think it was for a special occasion — more to keep me amused while she was busy doing something important.
She gave me a package of Nestle’s chocolate chips and told me to put one on each of the white keys of the piano. Once I had done that, I was instructed to take one at a time, pop it in my mouth, and play the note it came from — in any order I wanted. Well, of course, they were only for the 52 white keys. I don’t think I knew about white chocolate then or surely I would have asked if we couldn’t do the 36 black keys next time.
I’m not just sure why that memory popped into my head except that I have had several birthday cards arrive which I’ve displayed on the top of that same old piano. AND Florist Nansen delivered an absolutely gorgeous bouquet this afternoon from Charlie and pointed out that there were a couple of packages on the porch bench for me — which I did halfway open. One had a gift card from Marta — a box of See’s Molasses Chips (speaking of chocolates) and the other what appear to be two lovely pinkish colored lipsticks — also I assume from Marta! (We’d been having a discussion about chapped lips and she suggested.., and, of course, I never followed up, and so she did!)
Well, in any event, I can clear up all mysteries tomorrow evening when we have a ZOOM birthday get-together. (I’ll try not to eat any of those Molasses Chips in front of them — if there are any left!) What a lovely day to look forward to! How incredibly lucky I am!