I had a wonderful visit from a girlfriend earlier this month and I haven’t seen her for several months.  Carol and I worked together at Virginia Tech and I love her dearly.

Celebrating my birthday the year before I retired from VT.

We always have so much to talk about including our kids, grandkids, her work and my part-time work and home.  We both love to read and we started a book club soon after we met at VT.

She bought me a new book and a wonderful tin of cookies for Christmas.  I’m hoping we’ll have more visits like this in the near future.  I fixed lunch for us and we talked and laughed for several hours.  We talked about gardening, her work, my work, families, and of course, our cohort in crime that she still works with, Gwen.  I miss you guys so much!

Christmas tin of goodies from Carol.

I’m pretty sure she told me there were no calories in this batch!! 😉

Carol, I hope we can get together for lunch really soon because we have a lot to catch up on!   I’ll call you soon, I promise!

The new book that I guarantee she will finish before I do!