made it home safely yesterday

Reason I mention:

I was traveling at a clip on 94 and could see a very fast moving pick up truck in my rear view mirror. He was going about 85 maybe faster. The reason I noticed him was the trash that was spewing out of his very full truck. Papers, cardboard the size of large appliance boxes, strips of packing tape ripping off of the cardboard he had over stuffed in his bed. I was trying to think--is it better to be ahead of him? in the lane behind him? next to him? It was piled as high as anyone could imagine--and then he flew past me just before 275--when BOUNCE--something bounced up and out of the bed--seconds to think, maneuver--was it cardboard? was it...???--I swerved into the left lane--and ran over the corner of a wooden drawer--He had lost a complete chest of drawers. !!! The people behind me slammed on brakes and skidded and.......the truck driver slammed on his brakes and pulled over to the left median a bit down the road. I didn't wait to see who bumped into whom at 70 + miles an hour. It was a wonder I didn't make the choice to go "over" what I thought was a big cardboard box laying in the road. The drawer crunch was bad enough. I'll keep a watch on that front tire.

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I was just lucky!!!

Still here and kicking.

ps Jean--hope you weren't involved in that small plane landing on the highway outside Santa Barbara yesterday morning.

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itchy itchy

I finished my taxes! Yeah! 10 hours of tedious checking bank ledgers, credit card billings, adding misc deductions. The CD stuff took a junk of that time. I checked all the digital distributions, had to hand count streaming vs download (I pay royalties on downloads not streaming) tally, write checks etc. Well, at least it is done until December when I finish the chore.

Picked gobs of tomatoes and beans in the garden. Got a beautiful purple pepper yesterday. Came in with more mosquito bites but eh! Some of the cherry tomatoes were so ripe that when I went to pick them they jumped off the vine and did a hairy kari dive down to the ground below. I said goodbye to each one ;-)

Stayed up late watching for A Emily and her sign at the baseball game in Oakland. No luck. Hope Gpa had a better time of it--especially since the Tigers lost in the 9th inning. ugh

Headed in to see Gpa.

Later gators

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The realtor

came today. I like her. She seems honest and straightforward. She said it would be best if I replaced the flooring in your old bedrooms (though the other realtor had said it wouldn't be worth it). This one said it was the first thing she noticed when she walked in the rooms. ah

Also, there are some "stains" on the ceiling in the bedrooms--I thought they had been treated SINCE the new roof and painting--but there they were. I'll have to price it out.

Unless some really GREAT new place comes on the market--I won't push this to happen until Spring now.

Spending a lot of online anthropologie dreaming. Nice clothes!

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It's a jungle out there!

A tomato jungle. I picked 34 cherry tomatoes yesterday and 4 big tomatoes. The deck is full of flowers, fruit and greenery.

Today the realtor comes over to check out the house. I could be rushing around picking things up but then--eh, it looks "good" enough. I will take out the trash though.

Muffin has decided to soil the carpeting of late. I'd like to bean her! I have been very attentive to her clean litter box but she has found a corner she prefers. I read online that if you have "other" cats or neighbor cats and are showing them attention sometimes cats will do this. ??? Well, Jan and Marshall's cats have been stopping in for breakfast all summer. Perhaps I"ll have to ignore them but really now............

Had a great time at the dentist yesterday (thanks, Jean-Pierre) I like my dentist and his staff. We played with our iPhones for a long time. I had convinced the dentist he MUST have an iPhone, he got one (loves it) then his staff started branching out and getting them. I spent doing an iPhone tutorial in the lobby for the staff. ;-) Unfortunately they did find dire work to be done on a tooth--so those 4 crowns I was putting off for a rainy day--just moved to 5 with the 5th a must do. Will revisit the dentist tomorrow. hmm.....about saving for those summer taxes due in September.

I read online that A2 teachers have a tentative contract and will meet on Monday to hear the terms. Well.....I never received the emails the article referred to--so I called the union and they are on "summer break". I emailed a few friends and they were as clueless as me. Gosh--where did all those union dues money go?

While online I also looked around the anthropolgie site. I like that shop!!!

Screech owl was zippin' around the woods last night. They are the ones who sound like a lady screaming/sighing--descending from so to do. Pretty cool. Such a distinct sound you can hear them fly throughout the woods.

Well off to play

Enjoy your day

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Beautiful Saturday

Early morning trip to the Farmer's Market. Still no peaches there :-( I guess I'll need to branch out and go to the A2 Farmer's Market. Have been trying to do the local shopping thing. Did head to the "New Chelsea Market" for challah and a few items for my Interlochen bus trip tomorrow. I have to be at the bus by 7:30am and won't return until after 11pm. That's a long bus day ;-)

The New Chelsea Market is moving from its corner (I love it on that corner!) to the Old Post Office, which is moving later this month to Old Polly's building. Fun, huh! The Market said the building is up for sale so they decided to move. I think there is more to the story because they were a tad ouchy with their story and they JUST knocked out the next door wall and expanded their wine department that way. hmm? It will be strange not having the meat market back in the corner like it has been for all these katrillion years living in Chelsea.

The realtor, Pam Sjo is coming to see my house next Thursday morning. I'm not planning any big hoopla or cleanup. It looks pretty nice the way it is. Okay, maybe I"ll change Muffin's litter.

Angela (My cousin, David's youngest daughter--the pharmacist and her friends stopped in on Thursday on their way to TC. It was fun to have young lady energy in the house again. They are storing a car in my garage. I bought them Zingerman's brownies and water for their trip.

My garden is full and abundant. What a joy--it's like having a 2nd backyard on the deck!

Off for a walk before it hits 90 :-)

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Whoops left out some info

Uncle Lino's town of Fruitport took the brunt of the storm last night--lots of trees down/loss power/ etc. He hasn't answered the phone all day--Carl (his son living down the road) also is not answering. Jeff (son in Gaylord) switched his cell phone so I don't have that number. Holiday Inn is full with people without power SOOOOOOO unless we connect with Uncle Lino tonight--Dad and I are postponing our trip.

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Thought it might

be a nice idea to pick up the Family Room for when my Dad comes over tomorrow. (That is, if he comes over--right now we are still unable to reach Uncle Lino.) I started in washing the blocks I bought for Hunter. I was surprised to find out they are not Duplos but something called Megablocks. They are fashioned for 1+ year olds so Hunter should be able to handle them pretty well. I'll have them operational when he comes to visit later in the month.

Blessing ceremony went okay. Dr. Lu had a singing bowl--I forgot about singing bowls. My sis Emily has a great singing bowl. Great for meditations.

Marshall is out cutting the grass. They leave for CO on Wednesday.

Looks like the tomatoes will need a good drink in the morning. I'll also hop over to clean out the car. Dad likes a clean car. All that rain knocked the blooms off my petunias. When I am loaded with bug spray, I'll go up and stand out and plucked the dead blooms. Yesterday

it was full, today, not so much.

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