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\"ChocolateRose: <\/strong>The photo is of Paul’s chocolate rose. We’ve come to really like roses and this was one Paul wanted mostly for the name — it doesn’t have much scent. But the first year we had it, it didn’t really do much. The second year, we dug it up and put it in a fancy garden planter and moved it to the garden area near the herb garden. It now gets the required 6 hours of sun per day and is much happier. Last year it had two blooms. So far, this years we’ve had about six roses on it. This picture shows two of them.<\/p>\n

Car:<\/strong> Not much going on. Getting right back into the swing of work. Paul had to take some time today to go check out tires — we’ve had three flats in two months. I think we’re now back on track.<\/p>\n

P<\/strong>oison Ivy:<\/strong> The consensus seems to be that pictures B & C are poison ivy. Picture A seems right out of the fray. So, I’ll be particularly careful when around the vines in B & C from now on. Poison ivy is getting better now that we’re on steroids (Prednisone). Hopefully, it will be all gone by the end of the pills — but right now half way through it doesn’t look like it.<\/p>\n

Garden matters:<\/strong> It’s been rainy so haven’t been out to do much in the yard. We got the buckets to plant the rest of the tomatoes in. The lettuce is starting to come up. Our blueberry bushes on the deck have given enough berries for blueberry muffins and blueberry pancakes and some for just nibbling. Those are pretty much over. The strawberries are still blooming and making fruit but we can’t seem to beat the critters to it. Guess were not fast enough.<\/p>\n

Tour de Fleece:<\/strong> So, far I’ve managed to spin for at least an hour each evening. That’s better than I expected but then that includes the time I’ve spend fussing with the spool and the tension. I’ve now got it so that I feed the thread in and it doesn’t get yanked out of my hand. So, I’m at bit more at peace. I’ll post another photo of progress on Friday.<\/p>\n

Reading:<\/strong> Been reading books for review in the August issue of SFRevu<\/a> and Gumshoe Review<\/a>. So far, I’ve read Exodus<\/em> by Julie Bertagna, Written in Blood<\/em> by Sheila Lowe, and Dead over Heels<\/em> by Charlaine Harris. I’m about half-way through Underground<\/em> by Kat Richardson. It’s certainly a good month so far in my reading pile. Except for Exodus<\/strong> by Julie Bertagna, they’re all series that I’ve been following, so it’s a really nice break after getting the issues up on line on the 1st, the holiday buzz, and the car problems, and the migraines.<\/p>\n

So, that’s a quick update. I’m hoping to follow through on the spinning and get the rest of the gardening in this week. Along with the contract job and the usual stuff. Life is pretty good today in spite of the headache.<\/p>\n

\"HyperionIt’s me, the cat.\u00a0 Just thought I’d add my own 8.5 cents in (due to inflation you know).\u00a0 Getting the car taken care of was pretty easy this time.\u00a0 The first time was about a month ago.\u00a0 I came out on my way to work, got in the car, drove the quarter of a mile down the dirt road, and as soon as I turned out onto the pavement, I could feel something was wrong.\u00a0 So I pulled into a neighbors driveway (also a quarter mile long, so it’s not like they’re ever going to know I was there) and took a look.\u00a0 The right rear tire was totally flat.\u00a0 I guess I couldn’t feel it when bumping along dirt and stones at low speeds.\u00a0 Anyway, it’s annoying, but it’s been a few years since I had a flat, so I figure it’s about time.\u00a0 I pull the spare off, replace the tire, and find that the spare is only about half full.\u00a0 Remember it had been a couple of years?\u00a0 Well apparently, you need to check your spare tire’s pressure when you check the others.\u00a0 Doh!\u00a0 So I get some air at the first gas station (costs $1.50 for freaking air!\u00a0 What is the world coming too?).\u00a0 I go to work, head over to the tire place and sit in their waiting room for 3 hours while the car slowly moves through their queue of work.\u00a0 Again, annoying, but these things happen. \u00a0 Finally get the car back with the tire patched (and at no cost too!) and I figure that’s that.\u00a0 The next day, the same tire is flat again.\u00a0 Back on goes the spare and I sit for three more hours after work.\u00a0 This time they tell me they can’t fix it and I need a new one.\u00a0 $80 for a tire.\u00a0 Holy Moly!\u00a0 Well, again, it’s been a couple of years since I had to buy one, and apparently the cost of rubber has gone up too.\u00a0 Anyway, now I’m done.\u00a0 Brand new tire, and all should be right with the world.<\/p>\n

Nope!<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, I’m on my way to the doctors (where they’re squeezing me in before the holidays) to get my own poison ivy checked out.\u00a0 I’m in bumper to bumper traffic when a woman in the next car starts waving at me.\u00a0 I roll down the window (why do we keep using that phrase?\u00a0 There’s no handled to roll!\u00a0 Anyway …) and the lady informs me that my front-right tire is flat.\u00a0 Grrrrr!\u00a0 So, after finding a flat space to pull over into and putting the spare back to to play, I’m now twenty minutes late getting the the appointment that they were doing me the favor of squeezing in the first place.\u00a0 Lucky me, they take me anyway and my poison ivy is on the mend.\u00a0 Afterward … it’s back to the tire place (visit #3) where it takes 4 hours to get the tire patched.\u00a0 Grumble grumble, but yeah, that’s got to be the end, right!<\/p>\n

Nope!<\/p>\n

The very next day, we head off to the 4th of July barbecue.\u00a0 We have a very nice time, head back to the car, and find the front-left tire is flat.\u00a0 This is the third different tire now.\u00a0 Back goes the spare again and we have to hope for the best until today, since it’s a holiday weekend and all that.\u00a0 So this morning, I e-mail into work that I’m going to be out since I have to sit and wait for the car.\u00a0 I drive up to the car place, hand over the keys, and get them handed back 15 minutes later.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 How can that be?\u00a0 Looks like my luck finally changed and I was first in line in the queue.\u00a0 Turns out to have been a rotted valve stem, so the repair was free of charge and I’m out and about, wild and free.\u00a0 So, being the wild and crazy guy that I am … I go to work.<\/p>\n

Where I find out my corporate manager has been replaced (I can’t pronounce the name of the new guy, and he doesn’t speak English very well either).\u00a0 And my government boss has also changed (can’t pronounce his name either). As you might expect, it went rapidly down hill from there, but as I’d prefer to keep my job, I think the fewer details there, the better.\u00a0 Besides, I’ve bored you long enough.\u00a0 But I bet it makes you look forward to Gayle taking back over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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