Tuesday Evening Musings

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Three cheers for my brother! He plays “real” golf (not that miniature golf stuff I do), and he applied to play in an amateur event at THE golf course in town, Valhalla. (No kidding, this course hosted the Ryder Cup and the PGA Championship! This is a primo supremo course!) He found out this week that he gets to play there! How cool!!! Speaking of my brother, it’s a sad anniversary. Twenty years ago today my beloved baby (the one in my profile picture here) went to Rainbow Bridge. She was 14 and had started into kidney failure. The vet offered to run more tests, but I said, “No, enough.” She replied, “To tell you the truth, if she were my pet, I’d say ‘enough,’ too.” So I made the appointment. We had a party for her (she loved KFC chicken strips [which are horrible for human consumption so you know what they’ll do to dogs!], so she had some, and all the water she wanted [she had been down to a quarter cup of water a day and her kidneys were still not saturating her urine, which is how we “knew”]). When the time came (I made the appointment as late in the day as possible), my brother took her to the vet for me and stayed with her until the end. She’s buried in his “pet cemetery” along with his departed babies. When my brother asked me how much he owed me for going to the grocery for him while he had covid I told him, “remember, you paid me 20 years ago this month.” Today was my dental cleaning. Man, did she hurt my teeth. But everything else hurts, so why not them, too? After that I went to lunch to get my teeth dirty. (Don’t worry, I waited a half an hour after the fluoride treatment.) Then I went down the road to Trader Joe’s to get some “Soffritto” seasoning that Coral (@TheSojourner ) recommended. I ate very light tonight (peaches, pineapple, and yogurt, not the things you’d put it on) so I haven’t tried it yet. However, I did open the jar, and MAN DOES THAT STUFF SMELL GOOD!!!!!!!!!!! I figure even if I don’t like it or can’t eat it I can use it for fragrances in the house! Last week my next-door-neighbors’ house was broken into. I feel so bad for them. Not because they lost personal stuff (they say they didn’t, and all the thieves took was money), but because of what my old babysitter described as “feeling violated” after her house was broken into way back in the 1980s. The weird thing is their son works for ADT Security Systems…and they didn’t have an alarm! Needless to say, they do now. I saw their son over there Sunday morning installing one of the cameras, and in the evening they were over at my house, showing me what the cameras (four of them) were picking up. That included us in my back yard. After that happened I went to Lowe’s and got some PVC tubing. I have pipe in every window now, to where they won’t open more than the inch it takes to set the alarms off. Of course, all those things do, as my dear mother of blessed memory used to say, is keep an honest man honest. I’ve noticed a little twinge in the tree color, which means it’s getting close to “that time of year” to go leaf looking!!! It’s funny that one website says our leaves will be duller this year because we had too much rain, while another website says they’ll be more vibrant than usual because we had too much rain. Y’all have a great evening!