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Hey, congrats on the wedding. Another officially “out of the house”.

3rd day of clear blue skies and, again no rain. No rain in teg forecast for the next 10 days. The lawn is beyond brown, nearing crispy. Its sandy loam soil and porous as heck. The neighbors pump lawn irrigation from an aquifer that starts 75 ft down. We have an old well…[Read more]

At least she’ll be back with some old friends lying side by side with the dogs.

Nope, doesn’t sound good for the bunny. Our dogs went the same way. They didn’t each and were lackadaisical, then they legs went. The first went in his sleep, had a vet come to the house for the second. The kids buried them in the backyard. When we moved my son came and dug up the boxes and reburied them at his place.

As these GKs get older and more active it gets harder and harder to keep with their pace. As they outgrow their bikes, we take them use here. Yesterday we had 6 down and 5 wanted to go for a ride. 2 just learned without training wheels so all 5 were street ready. They were all over the place. After about 30 mins the 2 oldest decided to have a…[Read more]

Can’t beat wild blackberries. My father taught how they blackberry butter in Germany. It’s a really smooth blackberry jelly. All of the worthwhile blackberry patches out here are gone, lost to housing development. We used to fill every pot mom had in the cupboard.

My son in law brought over some black tomatoes, cherry size. We had never seen…[Read more]

I think it was Albania that was awarded their first Olympic medal ever, but it was a Russian wrestling for them.

I’ve never seen Dake as gassed as he was in the 2nd period of his 20-12 loss. He was ridiculously slow fending off those exposed ankles picks. He was totally outside his normal defense in that bout.

How did all of those Russian wrestlers find a slot on the team of another country? I know Mecic and Rivera, and a couple of others from the US have qualified because of parent citizenship, but how does a Russian end up wrestling for Bahrain ? It seemed like everyone of the mens medal matches had a Russian wrestling under the flag of another country.

Men’s freestyle went bust. OMG Dade let up 20 points. He’s a brick wall on defense. I haven’t watched it yet. His brain must have been in some kinda fog.

Spent most of the time watching womens basketball and volleyball. I’ ev never watched that much bball before but those gals were shooting the lights out with 3’s. Also enjoyed watching the…[Read more]

Freestyle starts tomorrow. 5 AM EST, 12 for the semis. I hope Peacock has the replays up early.

50KG gal from Japan, undefeated in 82 bouts, 4x World Champ and Olympic Champ got beat 3-2 by a gal from India in her opening bout. 2 point TD with less 10 secs left + 1 for scoring last. You just never know who will pull that big upset, but someone always manages to pull it off.

Mens Pole Vault final was a good watch. Downside, its almost 3…[Read more]

Daughter in law stopped in with the kids. She signed us into her Peacock account so we have access there. Not bad, you can sort sports and individual events.

Swedish Tri athlete has been hospitalized. They pulled the men from their event.

Insane Olympics. Paris OC designed the triathlon swim in the Seine River. Are they the biggest idiots on the planet? E.coli levels and other contaminants have been above the acceptable since before the games opened. The race was postponed on the day scheduled because the E.coli was too high. But astoundingly, it was okay the next day after…[Read more]

It was cloudy once again. Weather guessers predicted 4 straight days of rain. Not a drop. It’s been 2 weeks. now. The lawn is looking like the desert.

Aurora as far south as Oregon tomorrow. Were too far south.

I put in 3 here, all with no preexisting wiring. I had to cut holes between every other joist, then patch the holes. I had drill extension, but the bit kept snarling on fiberglass insulation. I’ve gotten pretty at patching sheetrock holes, so it wasn’t too big of a deal, just time consuming. I have a lot of time on my hands.

The fans are great in summer, but also help move the warmer air near the ceiling in winter.

Daughter and fam are back with us. #1 grandson is sailing in the local junior Olympics competition. 5 races yesterday, 2 more today. No one has a clue about the standings as they have published the first day results.

We went to another grandson’s…[Read more]

You’ll like the convenience of the remote.

First weekend in month with no kids around. I’m finally getting some work finished.

Yup, not comfortable unless you are accustomed to it. Especially sleeping on the ground or on cots. My wife never really goes to sleep because natures sounds. After 2 days she’s heading home. It’s been a while. I hope the girls had a good time.

2 more days in the 90s. My hydrangeas have fried in the sun.

Hope you had a great week camping. It’s been a while since we’ve gone out because of the house. We hope to get back into soon.