so many discoveries to share.
firstly ... if that weatherman tells me one more time how lucky i am that the next 10 days have no rain in store, i will just have to figure out how to tweet him !!! we really need 10 days of an inch an hour .. well ...nearly...
and------ living in the forest sruuounded by 80' tall trees is loosing it's charm...
i remember......when we first moved in.. the neighborhood kids were shooting arrows up into treess with some kind of fire attached... and they got a small fire going way high in "A" pasture... so we ran down with buckets and stood in the stream with the buckets--looking up... totally helpless.. and feeling foolish.... luckily it went out before the fire dept got here... but it was an education--- a fire 80 feet in the air is gonna do whatever it wants to do...
makes you rethink having some kind of lawn around the house...
i say lawn, but i mean something that keeps the forest from invaiding the place-
which makes me think.... dogfest.... and chores...
i think i will find our collection of pliers type tools and set guests on a devining job... of just snipping the bottom of all these %^&%$$#$ vines that are invading the fence lines and trees... one snip-- don't bother unwinding- mommy nature will take care of that -- mommy nature solves alot of problems that way.... cut off the source of nurishment and problem goes away..... my mother had her own version of that--- we had to go to college over 200 miles from home so we didn't come home with dirty laundry.
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then there is my life with uber...
my first encounter with uber, i never even noitced... richard arrived in a uber and it was totally unremarkable.. he got here. but then when he went to go, he simply poked 3:00 in his cell phone and at 2:45 a clean and tidy car arrived and parked in the driveway. at 3:01 he got in and they drove away. i was impressed..
an instant car that you didn't have to buy, insure,or worry about parking it where pigeons were overhead.
------sooooooo.... one day sitting here waiting for an actual person to answer the phone nd answer a question about building a building..... i "went" to the uber website and figured i would just get my name in the system in case i ever needed a car at a tiem when for whatever reason i coulj not drive my own... my hands sometimes act on their own with a minor shake.... i must have hit the wrong button somewhere becaues uber is now convinced i meant to apply to be a driver-- they must need drivers big time ... because .. daily i get a notice abot finishong my application to join teh ranks of uber drivers who make so much money they can even rent a car and make a profit for the day.
maybe there is a way for 2 college kids to rent a car over a big travel week and drive it 24 hours a day between the 2..-- i don't know...
but that isn't me.. and i can't convince uber otherwise.
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the other richard idea worth sharing is.. he does not travel with luggage... he ships a big box UPS and does not have to deal with whatever the airlines are currently doing about luggavge.( p.s. we are looking forward to his arrival after dogfest... i will know for sure whan a great big box arrives boldly labeled RICHARD's ---DO NOT OPEN AT MAIL CALL ! )
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now... it bothers me .. i said 80 foot tall trees.... they coudl be 300 feet tall, i don't know... so how do i figure out how tall they are? i know if i look out the front tof the house .. there is a big, steep down hill i am told the area is full of glacier eskers.. and this could be one of them....at any rate-- if i look out a pipe set level on a trash can , cojld i aproximate the height of the trees.?? anotehr dogfest challange??? i know there is at least one math typoe coming.....
