Thursday began with Sarah reading as I looked down on Fred and Jane at the breakfast table while Suzanne Ben Sarah and Jane hung out before we began our trip south on the island to get propane in Harvey Cedars and to Surf City where we went to A Little Bite of Italy, the deli and admired their cases before bringing home this hoagie and these pickles and another hoagie for our lunches after which I admired the cell phones on the steps and Sarah's solitaire game below before Dr Len (soon to be Mr. Lennie) arrived and Sarah checked out her scar and Jane cut lemons so that Jane and Fred could try to lighted their hair color before we went to the beach where Dr Len read as Suzanne Jane and Fred and Ben relaxed until we saw a balloon adrift out to sea and Jane and Fred captured it when it hit the shore. This caused Dr Len to teach Ben to make a beach baseball field though eventually we all read as Suzanne Dr Len Sarah and Ben and Jane were reading until Ben and Fred started burying Jane until Jane was half buried and the rest watched as the burying of Jane process continued until it was decided to bury Ben and Dr Len did the torero thing over Ben though Ben was still buried even as Suzanne prepared to leave though Ben was underground even as the shadows grew longer but when we got home Dr Len waited for a shower as Fred and Jane were outside and Sarah was inside though Sarah came outside to read the next chapter of Bronte to Ben and me even as Dr Len ate a bagel and Sarah's reading caused me to take this self portrait with sunglasses off before we headed to the liquor store and returned where eventually the Mulvey's arrived and Johnny read while Suzanne and Sarah chatted and I enjoyed my Foster's and the cheese plate chips and dip and salad and pesto pasta and burger rolls as we made a dinner good enough to attract this slug and his brother slug who did not seem to enjoy being bathed in beer