Most of you probably don’t know that I have something new to occupy a few minutes per night.  I now recycle.  Inspired by Emma T. and Bob Hoffman, Emma and I decided to recycle.  Our environmentally-handicapped city doesn’t have a curbside recycling program, but they have dumpsters for #1 and #2 plastics, paper, cardboard, paper, and other stuff.  The catch is, you can only visit these dumpsters for three hours per week.  Its work is what it is.  So now I dig through my trash, like I did in the Tiva days.  My Lawrence roomie, Tiva, recycled, but we didn’t often take the recycled stuff to the recycle place.  So it piled up in the garage.  I won’t let that happen, so I will be usually chauffering trash during the three hour window.

Sorry I don’t post much lately.  I think about thinks that I should post about, but I just don’t take the time for it.  Sorry.  Do you like the name Dr. Apple Rice?  I do.  Peace

The dog days of summer have come early this year. It’s still June and the temp is bouncing off 100 most every day. The grass is a pretty shade of brown, the pool is still blue but trying to turn green.

I just read a book set in northern Michigan and then another book set in Montana. Yes, the heat is getting to me.

Kathy spent a week in Dallas, a weekend in Austin, and will be going to St. Louis/Columbia with Noah for a week. We will all be going to St. Louis in September for Justin’s wedding.

It appears that Justin and Kelley will settle in Springfield, MO after their honeymoon. They are hoping to buy a house there before the end of the year.

Later

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers in the group. And thank you Hallmark Cards for making this possible.

The deck on the back of our house is becoming a real good place to avoid. A couple of weeks ago we noticed a just-about-dead tarantula on the deck. I think I must have inadvertently set the recycle box on top of it. We pushed it between the cracks to the ground below.

Today I was heading out with my hands full when I noticed a 2 foot long coral snake slithering across the same deck. I ran for a hoe but the snake was gone when I arrived with the killer hoe. Anyone up for a swim and a cook out? We will have an ambulance parked in the front.

I just learned that Marietta and Ed’s daughter, Patty’s husband passed away last Friday. I have no details but I do know that they moved from California to Spokane because of Dick’s respiratory problems.

Our sympathies to the Kelley family and to the Haight family.

That’s what I did today.  An attorney lightly grilled me for over an hour about a truck accident I worked.  It could have been worse, so I’m glad it wasn’t rough.  I spent last weekend partially in Missouri.  I was there for only one night, so it was a short up and back.  I did get to ride my old Harley back to Oklahoma City from Plad, MO (never heard of it, I bet).  I didn’t have much time to mess around, unfortunately.  A cloudy sky and sprinkles here and there made me hurry to get home.  I still managed a sunburn despite the consistent clouds.

In other news, the fam and I are road-tripping to California this summer.  We’ll make the grand tour of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sequoia National Park, home of the redwoods.  I’m looking so forward to it.  Emma’s bringing a classmate, and I’m sure we’ll have Grandma’s travel bingo along with us.  The lady walking among the big trees won’t be going with us.  Peace.

1. I don’t like thick bread and I don’t like oysters but I love a fried oyster po-boy.
2. I would like to put my power washer on the curb with a sign saying, “steal me”. Not a fun machine.
3. Can the Royals get much worse?
4. The pool is a nice shade of green.
5. No more tarantulas on the back deck.
6. I haven’t bought a CD since I discovered reciva.com.
7. Fantasy baseball is a fun summer hobby.
8. I started to read Angels & Demons but was unimpressed after 47 pages.
9. I may watch hurricanes on TV this year rather than working on them.

If you could spend one week anywhere in the U.S. where would you spend it? BTW, money would be no object.

That was me when I found out that Brother Jim was coming in town. Have a few beers and watch some baseball. That’s life. Someone else’s apparently.

Jim wanted to help me power wash the deck then seal it and then put all the stuff back on it. That took two days. We did have the beers and we did get to watch the Royals lose three straight games.

Jim left today and I will try to recover. Thanks Jim for all the hard work.

May 9th marks the birthday of Grandpa Glow. He would have been 90 years old today. He passed away almost 32 years ago. He was a good man.