Joanne went to a Film Festival last weekend and left me home alone with Charcoal. 

Home Alone:  The prospect was alarming and sad.  I anticipated a pretty lonely experience only highlighted by feeding and walking Charcoal.

However, things began to look up when I asked my 2 teen aged grand children if I could take them to dinner and a date was made and we went out Friday night for Sushi.  Yum.  I shared sushi for two with grandson Jackson.

Things kept happening and I ended up being invited to go to Woodstock with my son David and Jackson.  See photo above. Thank you Debbie and Peter for inviting Charcoal to "Camp Lindner" so I could go!

We hiked, played pool, ping pong, watched games and did all sorts of guy stuff in Woodstock and in the end I shared 7 consecutive meals with Jackson. A very rare thing indeed for a grandparent!

Needless to say, the weekend ended up grand and my experience was far far away from Home Alone!