Yesterday I telephoned Progressive about my auto insurance. As good as Progressive is, they are obnoxious in that they have to write a new policy whenever I move out of state– something I do with some regularity. I have to call them and tell them that they already have the answer to all the questions they’re asking me so they can give me a quote and I can give them a credit card number. Then I don’t have to talk to them again until I move. A man answered, I explained what I needed, and he welcomed me to Colorado.…
We each have Amazon wish lists, so check those out. For Joanna: Some men’s Levis 501s jeans size 34×30 (Used is fine.) A Bundt pan A springform pan For Berck: Some flannel shirts, XX-Large Tall (Berck likes L.L. Bean’s chamoise cloth shirts best but also realizes that they’re quite expensive.) He could always use some more SmartWool socks. For both: Pillows! (Pacific Coast?) Queen-sized, 100% cotton, at least 200 thread-count, NON-sateen sheets (Berck likes dark blue.) A griddle would be nice (Though that griddle may be a little much.) Amazingly, our Amazon wedding registry is still active. As they are…
We all went up to the wood lot today. Berck got bored because he didn’t have a chainsaw to play with (like Nathan and Max did). Although, if he had, he probably would have cut off a leg. I blazed a trail for the three-wheeler to haul brush up (on an old car hood) while Max and Nathan cut up a 70-year-old pine tree. Under the brush by the tree, Nathan found our digital camera! It wasn’t in its leather case anymore, and the little rubber strip to pull the battery out was all chewed up. We think a mouse…
The other day was a little more eventful than usual at work. Michele came back inside from checking on the horses and announced that Shalom had a broken bone sticking out of her leg. The vet was summoned. The best thing was to put the horse down, it was decided. I should say here that the house is more full than usual. One of the first cadets Michele and Duncan sponsored is based in Quatar and now has a family of his own. The Air Force sent him back to the Academy to have a series of a couple of…