Fairly mundane day. Rain and thunderstorms started about 1:00 am and lasted until 1:00 pm. Gabby does not like thunder so we were up half the night with her barking at every roll of thunder.

Got up a bit late since the weather wasn't not inspiring at all. Took the girls for a nice walk and then headed to the gym. Although I consider myself to be on the LITE menu I think I overdid it a bit today. Kinda sore tonight. After the workout we headed for Dunkin Donuts to enjoy a coffee and donut. Made up for a few of those calories we lost at the gym. Had quite an experience at the donut shop. One of the employees who seemed to be on table cleanup engaged us in conversation. He thought we were Canadians by our accent and informed us he is a Jersey boy. Turns out this guy is about 99% there, if you know what I mean. He wanted to talk mostly hockey and baseball which was ok. He turned the conversation to politics and I unwisely gave him my opinion on one of his heros, Glenn Beck. I told him the best place for that guy (Beck) was a mental institution whereupon our friend became visibly upset, got loud and started kicking cases of soda on the floor. Said he couldn't believe I would say that about one of his heros. Wow, I was thinking next he's gonna pull out a gun and that's it. I quickly back tracked and got him back to sports without further incident although he was none too happy when I predicted no pennant for his beloved Yankees next year. Thankfully his anger and passion doesn't carry over from politics to sports in the same violent fashion. Lesson learned, never discuss politics down here. The whole time this was going on the girl who seemed to be in charge of the two person operation was trying to get the guy to do a bit of work. He would clean a table then return to our conversation. Might avoid that place in the future.

From the coffee shop it was off to a town called Tradition where Kathy has a favourite shoe store. She forgot her walking shoes at home and so she bought a new pair of New Balance. Maybe with these she will be able to keep up with Connie on their morning walks once back in NS.

By the way, no pics today. Have a new camera but it doesn't work unless you take it with you. Maybe tomorrow as I think we have figured out how to take a pic with it.