High school chum Kathy Indermuehle Bork
came for a visit the first week of November.
We truly had a great time. She
arrived early evening on Saturday the 1st. The very next day bright and super early we did a tour of Montezuma’s
Castle (an Indian cave dwelling) and the Grand Canyon. I booked us with a small tour company and it
was so worth it. There was another
couple with us from Long Island, New York.
The weather was far from perfect, but it didn't stop the awesomeness of the Grand Canyon. It’s just jaw dropping gorgeous. An occasional snow squall moved through,
winds were raw, and we hadn't exactly dress for that weather. Oy.
The tour stopped at three, wait, maybe it was four different viewpoints
of the canyon. Had we done this on our
own we could never have covered as much ground as with having someone that
knows where they are going to and for the best views.
We did some garage sale shopping. I found my 2-drawer file cabinet at a church
sale. Better quality that the one I had
priced new and for only $15.
Kathy had
scoped out a sale about a block from the house and found my flag pole. Guy gave me the pole, the hooks, and an eagle
top piece for $2. The thingy that is
connected to the house that holds the flag pole was too narrow for the pole
that I had.
Because a car doesn't really get dirty,
it just gets dusty, all I need is a “California Mop” which is just a 2’ by 4”
dust mop with a short handle to dust the car with. We even
found that at a garage sale for a couple of dollars.
Like I said, we had a great time.
I ended up putting new door panels on
the garage a few weeks ago. I had
noticed when the door was opening or closing it was making more and more
creaking and groaning noises. One
afternoon when I came home I noticed it was sagging a lot after opening the
door. I didn't bother pulling the car in knowing that I had to have it
serviced. The metal in the middle of the
bottom panel cracked and split about a good 6 to 8” and this then was causing the
2nd panel from the bottom to start cracking splitting. Had a very nice service man, he could have
just sold me a new door but he said because the track, hinges, and rollers look
relatively new it would be cheaper for me to replace just the panels and
luckily the panels were in stock so another crew replaced them the next day.
Remember my big savings on petunias? Well the rabbits have pretty must destroyed most of them. I've never had any animal bother
my petunias back in Michigan.
It started
with just the stupid rabbit standing on its hind legs and eating what it could
of the bottom pot. Then if figured out
how to climb up into that bottom pot and start eating nibbling on the 2nd
pot. As you can see, he/she/them has now
dug out the plants and eaten down to nothing the remaining plants. I’ll have to do some web searching and find what annuals rabbits don’t eat. Hopefully mums. This really is mum weather. Here I thought I was getting such a great deal only to end up spending more in total
for flowers. Augh.
The first photo is the culprit on the left side of the bottom pot with its butt sticking out. The photo was taken five days ago. The second photo is from today. Where is a coyote when ya need one.
