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Greetings all

Mixed weather today but mostly nice. I drove to Eureka for scrabble this morning and drove over the new freeway overpass that has been under construction for years. Wow what a view! It borders Humboldt bay and really improves the visual. Only southbound is complete. There was a big stink when they decided to build it but now it appears to be a good thing. There used to be a non controlled intersection with a smaller road there which was accident prone. So I won two of three games today including an 80 point play. Lost to the Shark as usual.

Well Liz I hope the safari works out. And don't forget the redwoods for your bucket list. Really worth a view. People come here from all over the world. Ditto all of you. And hope your DH is not too fixated on BMI. Not a good thing. Nice that your club is helping Jamaica.

Onion smell CC!! Guess that is a side effect of pot roast though I suppose you could make it without onions. You could also simmer a pot of cloves and cinnamon to replace the onion smell. That is what i did when I was selling a house. Hope the roof woes end soon. If you write the newsletter you can at least control the porta potty narrative.

DD ain't it great to wake up but not have to get up. I have never understood the idea that you must get up when you wake up. Says who? DH wakes up and immediately gets up. Not me. Morning dozing is sort of a meditative state for me. I am "one" with my mattress.

DH has managed to apply a lubricant to our treadmill so it is working better and he is actually using it. It has only been sitting here 22 years.

Gallery meeting tonight but I am skipping it. Nothing important that I am aware of. It would mean being out after dark. No thanks. Plus I have a studio board meeting first thing in the morning. Can't be over-meetinged.

Studio remodeling continues. Our staff are really wizards at space design. A series of shelves and ware carts have been rearranged and redesigned and it is as though the room is twice as big. This was all possible due to the relocation of the glass studio and resulting space for member storage. Space allocation makes a huge difference!

More bbq tonight.

Diane S

2027 sounds like the perfect year to go on the Safari. I like your club's hands on approach to getting donations to Jamaica. There are lots of great organizations, but it's always encouraging to know someone will personally see that donations get to the people who need them. Our Argentinian friends did the same during a crisis in their country. Their ex pat group here also started a monetary donation chain, and when one of them went to Argentina to visit, they brought the donated funds, and bought supplies there to disperse. Again, I think there are many charitable organizations who do good work with their donations, but there is a comfort in eliminating the middle man and knowing donations are going right to the hands that need them.

Possible snow predicted, but nothing here. Weak sun, and cold, but not bitter cold. Paula, no doubt not missing it for one minute : )

Today is working out, decluttering some spaces, and reading. When I finally got out of bed at 9am, after laying there awake for awhile (the house was cold is my excuse, we need to reprogram the thermostat so it doesn't set back again at 7am) I thought, wow, 2nd hour is starting at school. This is very,very, nice.

We started watching the American Revolution by Ken Burns on PBS last night. The first episode was aired Sunday, so we back tracked and watched that one on the PBS app. Each episode is about 2 hours long. But if you can'****ch it as it is broadcast, the app worked great. We enjoyed it. One of the historians framed it as our first civil war: the patriots vs the loyalists. Interesting thoughts. Actually , lots of interesting information. We will finish the series.

It's funny, I scooped them out onto a cookie sheet and froze them, then put them in bag to bake later. It never occurred to me to eat any!

And yeah, this house... I was talking to my dad who called from the hospital and he said, "you got Kimbled AGAIN?"I said, "Yes! I've been Kimbled 4 times this month!" We now use the former owner's name as a verb.

I may have to subscribe to Apple. There are a lot of good shows on there. We had given up some subscriptions where DH and I were doubled up so maybe it is time to add a new one.

I hope you didn't get caught in the rain too much. I checked the forecast at one point and it wasn't actively raining but the forecast looked ominous.

Justice still has his dewclaws. They are really floppy ones so kind of jaunty when he walks LOL. The new vet here asked if I wanted them removed because she said sometimes they can causes problems with the nails but said his were pretty accessible so it probably wasn't that important to do. So I left them. He is almost 11 after all and might as well continue to keep them.