Spoiler Alert - Questionable Language Ahead

 So, taking hubby to his "job" and running an errand first, had to go the way I do not prefer.

And sure enough - ass**** were out. I was at the merge part of the two lanes prior to entering freeway, and this car that was 3/4 of a block behind me decided to floor it to pass me.......which he barely did.

There were cars behind me, so coming to a stop was not an option.

Well the driver of the red SUV decided to have a very mature response - to my very mature response to his/her behavior. Yes I laid on the horn - and yes I flipped him/her off.

So he/she decided to slam on his brakes - on the freeway entrance - not once - but twice......remember there was a line of cars behind me.

So he/she finally took off and took the next exit off which I was taking also......and pretty soon due to traffic and traffic lights - guess what? He was only 2 cars ahead of me!

He got to his left hand turn into JACK IN THE BOX just as I got to my right hand turn to get to the street I needed to be on to drop off library books, and then drop of my husband.

I guess he was hangry.

Dont tell husband - but in the midst of all this I realized I had left my phone at home!

Sad Not Sad

 Well, we cancelled our camping trip for next week.

I would like to think husband FINALLY listened to me saying that camping with a pinched nerve is not a good thing......BUT.....although that was 1 of the 3 reasons he mentioned, I think it was more talking to tourists from Sonora and them telling him how very bad the smoke is up there.

I must say I was also worried about the fires, and the potential for more. After seeing how quickly the Caldor Fire raged out of control, it worried me. Now hubby has me wondering about the trip in September to Plymouth....

But I will miss out on the ,yes I am drooling as I write this, cookies and pies at Cover's Apple Ranch - Home (coversappleranch.com) but you know, safety first.

We are also waiting to hear from the vet whether or not Bella needs 2 more weeks of antibiotics. I am betting the answer will be yes. That means 2 more weeks of torture, and we just could not ask the dog sitter to do that for us....

And we heard today that husband's 50 + 1 Class Reunion was cancelled. I am of two minds about this. It was a 3 day event - Friday is a golf tournament, Sat was an outdoor picnic and games, and Sun was an outdoor catered picnic. Although he graduated from  a really large class (well, really large compared to my high schools!!) - I think the last one we went to the indoor dinner had maybe 100 or less people total, and the outdoor picnic maybe 50. And if we havent learned how to social distance, wear masks, and wash hands by now....shame on us! I think the outdoor venues were perfect for this!

So they are going to have an unofficial, bring your own picnic, on one of the days. So maybe the caterer cancelled? Who knows. I get it - we all should be very worried about the Delta variant - and what other variants are evolving.

But that same weekend is the Festa Italia downtown....how many of the members of this HS class will be there? And that will be much much larger number of people....

We have been planning what should have been the 50th Class reunion for the HS I went to for 3 years. Should have been because the Bishop closed the HS at the end of our junior year......so 3 of us decided to plan an outdoor get together at a class mates house. With a catered menu - but we would serve it ourselves with a couple of us as dedicated servers. So far we have had 2 enthusiastic yes responses - and 1 who has said no because of the Delta Variant....another who is returning home (Spain) this year after being in the states since December.  So we will see what comes of this.

A Mixed Bag

 So far this week has been quite the mixed bag. And so I am writing this on Friday the 13th, but early before I see what the rest of the day brings!

Husband's shoulder and neck are no better. He called the ortho that he saw a year ago - and the earliest he can get an appt is in September! So he called his MD, and the earliest he could get in to see him is Sept! But he was able to snag a video appt yesterday. And so the MD has ordered PT for him and a prescription for gabapentin to try. 

Took him to work Wednesday; went back to pick him up and even though I felt like I was running late I got there a few minutes early and scored the handicapped parking place for him. So I got out and went into the Custom House to tell him where I was parked and then wandered around a bit....We stopped and looked over the fence at some of the cars coming up for auction. And then went to the car.

And there was a suspicious envelope on the windshield. Yup. A Ticket. Because - neither of us noticed this - husband's handicapped placard is expired! Now the parking police down there are not very friendly - I wish I had stayed in the car - maybe he would just have let me move - but no - now we owe $350 for the citation!

And came home and looked everywhere and realized he had never recieved his new one! So filled out the paperwork and yesterday got the notice that he should recieve it in about 7 - 10 days. The only scenarios we can figure is #1 it was stolen or #2 it was never sent. But when we got our DL changed and our real ID the clerk told us that all our addresses  had been changed in the system....

Now the fun news. When we were camping at Jackson Rancheria we met several people who owned Grand Design trailers. And we heard there was to be a Northern CA GD Rally in Sept, The guy told us he thought they were all booked, but he said there is a waitlist. So when we got home we put ourselves on the waitlist, not thinking we would get in.

Yesterday we recieved an email that we had gotten in! And so we booked it and got our ticket (which also includes a site reservation) - and paid for it. This should be fun - and hopefully we will be able to get some answers to some questions we have while we are there! 

BUT....when we talked to our wonderful dog sitter, turns out he is going through the hiring process for a position at the County Jail. Which is absolutely wonderful for him.....but not so sure it will be wonderful for us....

Husband just came home from his chiropractor appt. The chiropractor told him he can tell that the pinched nerve is getting better.....which is good to hear.

Blessed

 I was looking through photos on my phone the other day - trying to find the elusive photo, you understand.

And I came to realize how blessed we have been this year. At any time it would be blessed, but especially after The Year We Shall Ignore (LOL).

We took the trip to FL before travel became so very worrisome again. 

We have been camping 3x, and a 4th is coming up in a couple of weeks.

We have gotten to see our grandchildren - at my oldest grandson's graduation, my daughter and granddaughter came down and we took them out to eat, we went and watched one of the middle grandson's swim meet since his parents were out of town, and we just came back from watching our youngest son do amazing things at the County Swim Meet.

Yes I have photos to share, but they will have to be added later.

I finally remembered to sit down and fill out entry forms for the County Fair (deadline is tomorrow!). Kept trying to find more and more things to enter because it was so sad to see what use to be a full building full of items, down to one small-ish corner in a small building. So my goal is to keep entering things to just try and keep the numbers up - not even considering if I think the items are Fair entry worthy or not - just numbers! And I think I entered 3 needlepoint items, 1 cross stitch (most of my items are finished stitching but not finished off! But they will be ready for next year!), 5 knit items.