I took a midafternoon nap after feeding the dogs and slept hard for 90 minutes. I rose at 5 PM and decided to go to my Chinese buffet haunt in The Oregon District. 

It’s a beautiful night and the sky offered some perfect photographic moments. 

I purchased three shirts in the Goodwill store, grabbed a bucket of popcorn at The Neon Movies, and sauntered through Levitt Pavilion where a large crowd gathered for a terrific band, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. I sat one of the ledges along the walkway when this crazed woman wearing Purdue paraphernalia that nearly reduced my Ball State University nervous system to teeth, chattering idiocy.

It was my friend, Suzette Cochran, who was with her husband, Rusty!

Suzanne grew up in the north western part of Indiana in Delphi, and later Lafayette. Before moving to Beavercreek, Ohio, Suzanne and Rusty lived in Charlottesville, Virginia. With our mutual Hoosier and Virginia connections, we agreed at our first meeting, about 10 years ago, that we were really cousins.

The Cochrans and I always have the most unique, surprising meetings!

Colonel Deeds was such a trooper, today. He seems to accept the protective collar without effort to remove it and still finds ways to snuggle next to me. 

It’s 8:15 PM and I’m sitting on No. 17 S to depart of K-town. And the “let’s go” was just shouted from the covered walkway.