Sunday 25 October 2009

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• 02:28 @Monicks yes, doing fine, kicking back with the folks! # 
• 08:43 mom&dad went to church this morning but they know i wont go with them so i'm just to meet them afterward #atheist # 
• 08:44 so i get to sleep in, then walk to the store they always go to after church # 
• 09:45 i'm walking the mile or 2 to the grocery store to meet the folks. glorious day, only 80, partly cloudy # 

it probably wasn't even a mile. i did pick up a few groceries of the stuff i like--mostly non-lowfat non-low-calorie stuff, and then we headed home. later in the day it got to 90 degrees again, and it is predicted it'll be in the upper-80s all week.

• 10:27 my dad told me to leave the tv alone, HDTV is supposed to look squished! # 
• 10:30 @TennisTiff just picture urself in hospital w/H1N1 muttering "i shoulda got vaccinated" # 
• 12:08 my mother considers me a moral person tho i'm #atheist, but everyone else "needs" xianity for morality's sake # 

Mom needs to walk to continue the rehabilitation of her new knee replacement, so we use any excuse to head off. today there was a huge flock of birds down the road making a lot of noise, so i said let's go look for them, and we eventually found perhaps thousands of black birds of some kind (she said crows but i know crows, we have them in Ohio, so then she said grackles) in the trees along the lake.

• 14:36 Dad just telling me about his mother, who died in '46, and his brother, who died in '47 when Dad was 13. i love this stuff! # 
• 15:00 @Taby74 i once got thrown out of a restaurant cuz a waitress had a sign on her left breast that said "Pat" & i just followed instructions! # 
• 15:02 @_7654_ well, i got plenty of nothing! #
• 15:16 @Hanescymru what's that cheer u say? Bore da #
• 15:20 @Taby74 i've always loved that joke! # 
• 15:23 *turns the other cheek* RT @Taby74 @DyNama You crack me up!! *kisses cheek* # 
• 15:25 schedule for this afternoon: dinner @ sis' house w/our parents and her father-in-law, who's 86 #
• 15:29 @Taby74 *blush* # 
• 15:30 Humans are the only animal that blushes...or ever needs to--Mark Twain #
• 16:11 talking to Dad about his new N-gauge train layout. he got a circuit finished and ran an engine around the track! # 
• 16:51 heading over to sis' house for a cookout # 

for a long time, Kris cooked the sunday dinner for her family plus the 4 parents, but it was a lot of work, and they started tending toward going out to eat instead, which became the usual when her mother-in-law passed away in 2006. nowadays there's only her husband, father-in-law, and her two parents for dinner, but she decided to make it a cookout in my honor--besides, her husband does some of the cooking when it's a cookout. she served a nice red wine before dinner and we were sitting under a gazebo on their dock when it started raining. fish are jumping like mad all over the place.

• 17:54 it is raining here in florida. Dad says they need it bad # 
• 19:02 dinner @ family cookout was great! hamburgers, corn on cob, baked beans # 
• 19:31 back home for the evening. did i mention my dad is an early-to-bed kind of guy? # 
• 22:05 i have control of the remote! we watched Sherlock Holmes on PBS and now Cold Case #
• 23:58 my mom's cat benji has been walking around 10 ft away from me but won't get closer

Benji is one of two stray cats who adopted Mom, but the other one disappeared when they returned from a hurricane evacuation a few years ago. Benji is a nice tailless kitty, but very skittish, and won't let me pet him. this evening, tho, i called him and he came out of his hiding place for my last 3 smokes, but always stayed out of reach. I did get to pet Kris' cat Pumpkin, only 1 stroke, this evening.