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Hi,

So, last week I mentioned that everything was so dry and browning and that a little rain would be nice.  Well, we got a lot of rain last night and all day today.  Big thunder, occasional flashes of lightning, and lots of water.  Be careful what you wish for (555).  Oh, and it’s cold, which means it probably came down from China as opposed to the east.  

The ‘Old School Friday’ song was “Kansas City” by Wilbert Harrison.  Time once again for ‘Easy Monday’.  You should know this one by now, it’s my ‘go to’ song when the sky is falling:  “If the __ comes, they run and hide their heads, they might as well be dead.  If the __ comes, if the __ comes.”  Hint:  I think you get the picture, it’s a weather thing.

The weekend started out cloudy, with a chance of rain.  I take these thing with a grain of salt because it usually doesn’t happen when ‘they’ say it will.  Saturday was a pretty routine day.  We had coffee at The Wanderer before doing some shopping, which meant we left JaiDee at home.  

Sunday was our big outside day.  Cat came over early and we went to Starbuck’s for coffee and treats before the mall opened at 10am.  The plan was to look for running shoes for Lisa and Cat, plus a few other odd mall things.  While they looked at shoes, I had the screen protector replaced on my phone.  After a few drops, the glass had some chips around the edges that didn’t seem safe.  I cruised around in the phone shop area and notice that there was a ‘Mi Store’.  This is a shop for Xiaomi products.  The first thing I noticed was the face masks.  Then it hit me, we had their masks last year during the smokey season.  They are the KN95 type, which is on the approved list for protection in both directions when it comes to the virus.  I got a couple, put one on and continued to look around.  I got my phone, connected with Lisa and Cat and we went back to the Mi Store for more masks.  A little more browsing and it was time for lunch at Sizzler.  Menu changes are often just the right things to make a place more attractive and that was the case on Sunday.  I got the grilled Salmon with baked potato and had a very nice meal.  

This is a Strawberry Rainbow at Sizzler.  

By the time we got home, we were ready for a nap.  While we were sleeping, I was charging another item I got at the Mi Store, a Bluetooth speaker.  Seems like a small thing, and it’s kinda small, but it’s a big thing when your laptop is really like a TV.  Most of our archived favorites are watched on the computer, either upstairs while hanging out, or downstairs in the dining room.  Sharing the AirPod set is OK for some things, but a speaker is more sound.  So we tested it out after I got it working, and now it travels with us.  

We thought it might rain during our walk time so Lisa devised a game of hide and seek with the dogs to exercise them.  I would hang on to JaiDee and she’d go down the hall and hide in one of the rooms and then call him.  He would race off and search, sometimes finding her and sometimes coming out as if to say, ‘where’d she go?’.  Eventually he’d find her, and TongTong even got in on the action.  They were very cute and had fun hunting in the house.  It turned out that we got a chance to have our walk and that was good.

I programed the DVR for the Super Bowl and this afternoon when we went to watch, the time had been wrong and it started broadcasting at the half time show.  No problem though, they played it again so I recorded that.  It was messy so we’re piecing it together without the TV edits so we can see all the plays.  This was also the first day of the Australian Open Tennis.  Sports fans in our house are happy.

No walk tonight but the dogs are sleeping anyway, and the rain has stopped for the moment.  Time for football.

Have a Great Week.

                        Peace,

                                  Danny

“What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”

~Frederick Douglass