Oktoberfest was a grand event. Colin, Meagan and Hannah made Bavarian deviled eggs, potato salad, roasted onions, two kinds of grilled wurst and pretzel rolls which we washed down with great Oktoberfest beer. The music was appreciated by the entire neighborhood, until I turned the volume down. The day was just picture perfect and when it got dark and cool, I fired up the old chimney we purchased in Mexico and fed it with all the dead branches from the trees around the deck. We all marched to bed rather early since Meagan had to leave the house at 5:30 to see what the commute would be from here to the Dept. of State. She made it in 58 minutes, which I’m assuming is a world record.
I had a lot of things to get done today since I’m out of here tomorrow. I was at the dentist at nine for a cleaning, which only took thirty minutes. They try to tell you that you are doing such a great job of keeping things clean and healthy, but I think it has more to do with being able to see more patients in a day. Ran around picking up dry cleaning, a bit of banking, returned some things and exchanged them for others and found my way to Wal-Mart to pick up about twenty color patches of red paint to try to match the paint in our red room. Cindy wants to make sure the rugs she picked out will not clash with the room.
I learned something today that I think is absolutely the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. You need to have an optometrist’s prescription to replace one lens with clear glass! Cindy has a pair of glasses that she wanted to use for night driving while wearing contacts. All she wanted was to replace one lens for clear glass since her contact in that eye does all the work. IMPOSSIBLE. Like a dummy, I tried to apply logic into this discussion and was told that if Cindy got into an accident with glasses that they gave her without a prescription, they could be sued. I said she would be more likely to have an accident wearing the glasses as they are now but my arguments fell on deaf ears and we’ll have to figure out something new.
Colin and I rearranged the garage and threw lots of stuff out before getting his pop-up stored for the winter. The lady at the homeowners association was very apologetic when she found out that the trailer was only in the driveway for six days and that we never had any intention of storing it outside. I laugh when they talk about keeping the area beautiful since the house right behind us has filled their front yard with graves, crucifixion scenes of witches, hosts of goblins and ghosts, a nightly sound/light show and miles of police tape identifying the area as a crime scene. So it is ok to crap up your yard for all to behold for a month before Halloween, but goodness don’t get caught with a trailer in your driveway.
I feel like I’ve been gone for weeks instead of six days. Can’t wait to hop on the big bird tomorrow and I’m hoping that they check the gas cap so that they don’t have to turn around over Nova Scotia like they did last time. Ciao, wm
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