Enormous!
Mom, you would have loved Cheryl. She brought me out a bag of drinks and healthy snacks when I arrived, but made sure I washed my hands before digging in. Later in the evening she cooked me dinner while the three of us sat and talked, and I found out Rob is quite a character. He's a fixture on the UW campus in Madison playing his sax outside in the warmer months. He's really gotten into his new blood sugar meter, and measured my blood sugar (75 mg/dL, I think it was, before dinner) to show me how it works. (The prick is painless and the reading is almost instantaneous.) This morning he showed me a few other interesting hobbies of his while Cheryl packed me up a breakfast for the road. (Photos to come.)
Day 56
He also plays the flute!
May 21st, 2010
This is "Nature Boy". He dedicated it to me and told me to look up the lyrics:
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise
Was he
And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return"
Handmade and portable!
I also got a good shot of the "whirlyjigs" (wooden lawn ornaments that spin in the breeze) he makes, but accidentally deleted it.
In the Wisconsin school system, they combine driver's ed and trigonometry.
