Friday bullets, Sept. 11, 2020

That's a date that will never be comfortable to write, isn't it?

  • We celebrated P.'s 20th birthday yesterday.
  • M. took this very cool picture of the pasture earlier this week. 
  • R. is recovering from earlier in the week. We've certainly weathered bigger storms. Her black eye is also looking significantly better.
  • Our weather does not seem to believe in moderation. The extremes are a bit tiring.
  • I got to spend a few hours sewing yesterday. It would have been a little more exciting if I had been sewing something other than masks, though.
  • Fourteen people require a ridiculous number of masks.
  • Since masks tend to be in short supply around here much of the time, I have a slightly embarrassing story to share. I was getting in the van after having run an errand and noticed a fabric mask on the ground in the rain. I look a little more closely and see that it is actually a fairly nice mask, so I pick it up and throw it in the van. When I wash it, I realize that it had been tossed on the ground because one of the elastic pieces had broken. So I replaced the elastic and now have another decent mask. Life is strange.
  • One more mask related item. They are exceptionally helpful in non-family members being able to tell L. and G. apart. G. has the panda mask and L. has the Cubs mask.
  • I've started to learn how to drive a carriage driving dressage test. Let's just say it is a work in progress.
  • TM took a nice picture of Java today.
  • TM works at Trader Joe's now. As a treat he brought me dark chocolate peanut butter cups which I love. I think you should be impressed that there are still a few left.
  •  We have a month trial of satellite radio in the new car. I had no idea that professional sports needed so many different channels.
  • The new car seems to be acquiring a name... Mrs. Travers. Since there was a little confusion over pronunciation, the name was sometimes said with the accent on the first syllable rather than the second. And since Travers was the last name of one of Bertie Wooster's  aunts in the P.G. Winehouse stories... well, it just seemed to fit.
  • There is a beautiful five bedroom house on five acres for sale just a house down from ours. Anybody want to be my neighbor?
And with that in going to call it a night. Happy weekend everyone!

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