Last week and a half was crammed with bad news: Thanksgiving went all right, had a nice visit/meal with Husband's Aunt. I'd planned to go visit Mom on Saturday, but Riza started acting up about 20 minutes into the trip. It started with the Cruise Control suddenly conking out; I tried a couple times to reset it, but it didn't take. A little later ( Read more... )

Well, 3/4th of the household is now fully vaccinated. BoyfriendZ is sort of dragging his heels because apparently he feels the various vaccines were 'rushed', and isn't convinced they are safe... on the other hand Daughter mentioned that they have done some preliminary investigating of available local housing options in the past couple weeks...

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1. Working gas  gauge
2. Heated front seats
3. Decent gas mileage
4. No mysterious rattles
5. Decent sized trunk

Things I'm Not so Fond of:

1. Dashboard notification of possible problems overrides the odometer display.  I'm sure there's a way to remedy this, I just haven't figured it out. Yes, I KNOW we're due for an oil change.... in about 300 more ( Read more... )

 Okay, the pile of tree branches has diminished by about half, thanks to several evenings of concentrated wood-chipping by Husband and myself.  Husband tried to rent a wood-chipper and couldn't -- apparently there are liability issues  involved -- so he ended up buying a small one from Home Depot.  Because the lowest price we were quoted by tree ( Read more... )

... Probably because of the post- Thanksgiving snow.

Wow, last week was great! Three of my long-time friends from LJ turned up suddenly; I'm sorry that the recent Tumblr problems seem to be the catalyst, but I can't help being glad. 
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 Just a week until Thanksgiving -- what am I thankful for?  Mom still with us; Daughter showing an on-going interest in adult independence (if only Texas wasn't so far away!); the Goodyear credit card I qualified for back in February during the car brakes crises, which I managed to pay down by half just in time to re-spend on four badly needed ( Read more... )

Due to the rain during July, we have practically floated into August.... the rivers are still uncomfortably high,  but going down (very slowly).  And once again, the mosquitoes are finding little ol' me to be a tasty treat, especially when I'm trying to sleep.  I have such ghastly bite welts and what  I suspect is scratch-irritated heat rash -- I' ( Read more... )

 We have a tenant in the big, partially hollow tree in the backyard -- no, not Keebler elves, nor Pini elves, nor even named 'David'.  We have a Raccoon.  Which is driving Jethro crazy, especially at around 2:30 in the morning when it decides to go walk-about in the (mostly) vacant lot next door.  I've seen it a few times; so has Daughter.  Husband ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Dad's birthday -- he would have been 88 ( Read more... )

Like the label says, the month of July had its downs and ups:

( b*tching, fan-girling, family matters, and chows ahead )