At last!

This morning bright and early the Lamplighter Farms Valdez slipped its moorings and drifted away in the back of a truck from Jordan's Furniture.  In its place is my brandy spanking new, not contaminated with spilled lamp oil, mattress.  Mayhaps I should put a liquid contamination resistant cover upon same...

\\\\. Hurray! .////

Super Tuseday

We're back from the poles and through with a very pleasant supper.

I've still got my wookie suit on cause it's so nice and warm and comfy!

Well, actually I wore my NRA Gadsden baseball cap and MA-1 flight jacket.  The pole worker who was checking folks in and handing out ballots grinned when she asked if I wanted a Democrat ballot.  Don't know if it was the hat or my having just told Mum that the guy she wanted to vote for was on the Republican ballot that gave her the first clue.  Taking a Republican ballot myself I lamented that it would be nice to have some real independents to vote for.

Green Eggs & Ham

I will not eat them in a box
even if the waitress is a fox...

Ate at Ihop this late afternoon.  They have a new Dr. Seuss menu.  Got Mum the Green Eggs & Ham cookbook for her birthday a couple of years ago -- mainly because she's still traumatized from my insisting that she read me that book again and again ad nausium when I was little.  Still looking for The Cat Who ... cookbook.  Glass of Squunk Water anyone?  Saw that at a book store a while back.  But I'll find one eventually at the flea market.  ;-)

“Houston, one whole side of the spacecraft is missing!”

– Jim Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13. 
(And me in last night’s wind storm…)

This photo shows how much skirting was blown off the house by the wind.  This is the view looking back from standing next to the air conditioner.  Two more panels are out between the AC unit and the front of the house.  At this point I’ve laid out what I can find of it so I could put it all back on.  I chatted with my next door neighbor briefly while I was gathering up the wreckage.  She said she wasn’t certain that the contractor who was here Friday in the rain to install my new propane furnace had put back the skirting they’d removed to run the line to the tank.  They may have been thinking that way they wouldn’t have to take it off again for the building inspector come Tuesday.  The fact that my pipes may freeze between now and then doesn’t seem to have entered into the equation.

If true, I am not at all happy about that.

I am happy that they took down one of my little oil lamps so it wouldn’t be damaged when they were wrestling the furnace into the little closet in the hall.  But I am decidedly unhappy that they laid it on its side on my bed! 

Fortunately it seems that I don’t have restless leg syndrome.  I haven’t been rubbing my ankles together to create any friction that might ignite the lamp oil that leaked and saturated the foot end of my mattress.  I sopped up as much as I could.  But still…

To adapt a line from Cornel Jeff Cooper:

‘Rule 1: All oil lamps are full.’ 

Grumble, grumble!

Starbucks Appreciation Day

Never been to a Starbucks before this evening.  Naturally while I'm trying to decide what to have my cell phone rings!  I wore my NRA Gadsden hat and tipped with a $2 bill.  I doubt the kid behind the counter noticed...  (BTW: That second Frapachino is for Mum.)

I love a story with a happy ending!

I just hope she doesn't take him back...

Link via NRANews.com on Facebook.

Awfully quiet around here

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