Last post for a week

We dropped Brigit at Holiday Hills Pet Lodge (nice name!) this afternoon and we're leaving from Tweed at 6 a.m. tomorrow....

Today is International Dog Day--seems a bit harsh to leave her at the Pet Lodge today.

A cloud burst happened just as I pulled in the driveway. By the time I got to the front porch, soaking wet, it stopped. Sitting in the car for 2 minutes would have kept me dry.

The suitcases are in the trunk of my car.

We're ready to go.

It will be a great week, but I'll miss Brigit and miss posting here.

Be well and stay well, Umfandusi.

(A South African parting words--'Umfandusti" means "good friends".)

And you are that to me.

"I'll see you in September."

(A song lyric, I think.)

Release the redacted document

 A judge has decided to release the redacted document which caused the FBI to invade Mara-la-Go. 

Most news outlets wanted it though the Justice Department didn't want it released.

It may tell us what we need to know about why the Justice Department searched the former President's residence.

They had to have good reason to get the search warrant.

That would be good to know.

The noose is closing around the former President in these oh-so-odd times.

I can't wait to see it!

Close the noose....

Send him down and to prison.

Please.

 

Two days and three sleeps

And then we go to Oak Island.

We'll take Brigit to the kennel on Friday and I will miss her greatly.

I won't take a computer to the beach, so no posts for a week.

I get 40 emails a night--most of which I erase--but I don't look forward to coming home to almost 300 emails.

I'm keep up with the news while we're there and enjoy the time with the other 5 folks with Bern and me.

Still two days to see if I get my hearing aids back.

As I love to say, "We'll see."

 

 

They kept my hearing aids

Things were going so well--I was hearing better than I have for years.

Only problem was I didn't seem to be able to get the one in my right ear in right.

Oh, I was getting it in, it's just it was, as the audiologist said today--dead as a door nail.

So she kept it to see if it just needed charging or had to be sent back to the factory for a new one.

So, hear I am, not hearing well again.

If she has to send it back, I probably won't get a new one until after we get back from Oak Island a week from Saturday.

I was looking forward to wearing them at the beach.

We'll see....

 

Lots of forecasts and little rain

 Today was supposed to be rainy in Cheshire--all the weather forecasts said so.

But only a sprinkling so far and it's almost 5 p.m.

We need it badly.

A week from today we'll be at Oak Island, NC on vacation. Mimi, Tim and Eleanor, John, Jack and Sherry, Bern and me.

I look forward to it but am not happy that the plane to Myrtle Beach leaves New Haven at 6 a.m. on an airline--avelo--I never heard of until the reservations were made.

We'll be there in time (7:55 a.m.) to have a sausage gravy and biscuit breakfast on the way up the coast.

I look forward to that--no sausage gravy and biscuits in Cheshire.

My hearing aids are working out pretty well though my mask pulls them off when I take it off and the one in my right ear is hard to insert. Plus, my tinnitus isn't being helped much.

But I see them tomorrow so we'll see.

Just looked up and the sun is out for the first time today.

So much for weather forecasts!

We need lots of steady rain.

Church today

Church at Trinity, Milton was great today.

Wonderful music. Prayer C and my sermon, which I already posted.

But for the postlude, our two remarkable musicians--Michael Ford on piano and Jordan the vocalist, agreed to do, at my request, "Take me home, country roads."

Jordan invited people to sing along if they knew the words and almost everybody did.

I also told folks about West Virginia and growing up there.

West Virginia passed Mississippi as the poorest state.

It is also the third worse state in the union regarding level of education--though there are a host of good colleges and universities there.

My home town went from 500 people to 128 last year.

I grew up in MACK-dowell county. Outsiders call it McDowell, but those who live there accent the MACK.

My father had an 8th grade education but my mother had a Master's degree in education.

I have 3 post graduate degrees.

My grandmother lived on top of a hill in Conklintown, a mile up a dirt road.

I didn't go to school with black kids until my senior year when the Black school sent over 2 smart girls and 3 male football/basketball players because the next year (1966!) the schools merged.

Though I lived further south than Richmond, Virginia, was in the mountains and got tons of snow each year.

And "Take me home, country roads" only mentions two locations--the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River--both of which are in Virginia, not West Virginia.

That's what it's like to be from West Virginia.

 

Birthday party

 We went to Sherrie's birthday party this afternoon.

She turned 75, just like me and has been a friend for 40 years or more.

She and her husband will be on Oak Island with us in a week.

Lots of people.

Lots of food.

Some people I didn't know and Bern reminded me it's always like that at S's.

A good time was had.

We left before the presents were opened.

Still a good time.