again. I love having my children close and visits
frequent.
Robert and I have been checking Craig's list daily
looking for a 4x4 to buy. We want to get rid of the
Saturn and the Crown Vic and primarily use the Prius
around town and the Van for travel. The 4x4 we'd
use as a second car on the rare times we both have
to go, but in different directions. And, also to
have a vehicle to drive when the snow piles up.
We were going to look at one on Thanksgiving day, but
it turned out to be in a Used Car lot and neither
of us was up for dealing with a Used Car Salesman
and certainly not on Thanksgiving day. We then
found two others to look at. The first was a
20-year-old Jeep Cherokee and we ended up buying
that. It didn't cost much and we figured Vernon
could check it out for us and repair what ever.
It is in his garage at this time and he has been
surprised at how little he can find wrong with
it. Clearly, it has been well cared for and kept
in repair. If it lasts a year it'll be a real
bargain; more than that and we're home free.
We've had more than 14 inches of snow this week
and more is coming. Actually, it started snowing
a few minutes ago.
Yesterday we walked up the road 1/2 mile or so to
have brunch with Erin and David. Robert gave Erin
much of the sand collection of his folks. She had done
a lot of mud/debris removal from the barn after the
flood. They have cleaned up the bottles have them
very nicely displayed. They have them in chronological
order, starting, I believe in 1951. We gave them another
bottle of sand that we had picked up from the
Sahara desert when we were visiting in Timbuktu
in 1998. We had a pleasant visit and good food.
We walked, with them, down to the fire station to
celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new fire station
and new fire truck. It was quite a gala event, almost
no speeches..Bret spoke a few words and then the
band played and the barn doors went up. It was
fun.
Earlier this week I discovered mouse droppings in
two kitchen drawers. I emptied the drawers and put
mouse traps in the drawers. I cut two mice, in the
same trap! Since then, I have caught no more. Today
I cleaned out the drawers and added new contact paper.
After washing all the contents of the drawers and
drying same I have put the stuff back. Some of it
was so archaic that I have put it in a box, for
historical purposes and many items I've added to the
Good Will bag. Now, I'm hoping I'll not find more
mouse evidence. At least, not for a while.
