Well, the move is progressing more rapidly now. I just made the order for Cox to install the Internet service, so that will be scheduled. Most of the furniture and small items have been moved or will be moved within the next few days. It's time now to start taking art off the walls and moving the pieces to the house. The last pieces of furniture to ( Read more... )

Hard to belive that this is the tenth anniversary of my getting Dale. He was a birthday gift from Mom and Dad and remains the best birthday gift ever. I got him less than a month before I got hired here at the Clerk's office, so it makes remembering how long we've been together easy. He meets me at the foot of the stairs every afternoon and loves

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself ( Read more... )

On this day in 1912, President William Howard Taft signed the papers that admitted Arizona as the 48th state in the Union. Huzzah!

Well, the first rain of the year also brought the first power outage of the year. Who knew? Anyways, I am well equipped to deal with inconvienances like that. I don't have flashlights or candles, but I do have oil (kerosene) lamps. The outage lasted about an hour and when the power came back on, I went about refilling the oil founts on each lamp ( Read more... )

Well, I've been putting off certain housekeeping tasks and now it is time for me to get them done. These specific tasks aren't that bad but will take time. Specifically, I need to document my valuable possessions for insurance purposes and I am doing that with my digital video camera. I should have started on this long ago but never got to it. Why ( Read more... )

I will be doing some redecorating over a period of time as I make payment on some web comic art that will be delivered over the next few months. The first painting arrived Friday and I just hung it today.


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We just received the monthly adjusted statistics for filings taken in by the Civil Unit at work. Year to Date totals are as of the end of April. 1,636 Petitions for Dissolution of Marriage have been filed versus 1,605 as of this time last year. Petitions for Annulment of Marriage are down-13 filed to date versus 24 last year. Decrees of Dissolution ( Read more... )

Well, I just rescued another typewriter from the scrap heap. Well, not exactly-the owner had no intention of just tossing it out. In fact, his wife refused other offers to purchase it because the heathen who wanted to buy it only wanted it for the glass keys-he was going to cut them off and use them for jewelry. This being the typewriter owned by ( Read more... )

1. Can you cook? Yes. Don't do it that often, but I can do it ( Read more... )