Here we go again with this fucking mailman who doesn’t know how to read. So I called and gave the case number the last woman gave me, and repeated the story to the guy that took my call this time, but I have a feeling that it’ll do me no good. The guy who took my call said they have hundreds of pieces of mail a day to read, accidents happen, but that’s no excuse. Damn right it’s no excuse and I don’t buy this “accident” shit as 2-4 pieces a month on average is too many “accidents.”

The kids haven’t tried to come back to untangle the hoop, but we’ll see.

Meanwhile, things inside and outside are looking great around here and all that really needs to be done is to finish carpeting the bathroom, clean the sinks, vents, and right now I’m doing laundry. The washer had broke, but Tom fixed it. Thank God one of us is smart.

Yesterday, I caught another mouse, but it escaped. As I was hosing down the patio, I saw it run from under the table into the garage. So, I set up the trap there, caught it, and stuck it in the aquarium part of Gizzy’s cage. They would’ve been perfectly content to just ignore each other, but when Gizzy started on his wheel, it freaked out Fuzzy, as I call him, and Fuzzy latched onto the outer part of the wheel and Gizzy spun him out. I’m surprised I haven’t caught him again yet, but I hope to hell I do. If I do, I’ll put him up top in Mary’s part of the cage. Tom’s gonna cut a piece of Plexiglas with holes in it with a U shape to go around the part of the tube that goes by the wooden box. That way no mouse could jump out of that.

I called my sister who was cussing out some icon she was trying to delete. Some cat chasing a mouse. I called our machine and let Tom listen to her swearing at it. It was pretty funny.

It was also pretty funny seeing the birds take baths under the sprinkler. They’d lift their wings up from the front row to the back row, as the sprinkler came over them. Then, as it went the other way, they’d close their wings from the back row to the front row.

Later...

Man, is it gonna be hard to go to bed tonight! I’m so excited. My parents called and they’re now just one state away! They’re in Las Cruces, New Mexico and will be here tomorrow in the late afternoon. Probably around 3 PM and at 5 PM our time, we’ll be chatting with Tammy live on the computer.

We were all teasing each other about several things and we called Tammy 3-way. They said they really have been enjoying the scenery and the mountains in Texas and then Tammy and Mom were laughing about something pertaining to Bill, but they said they’d fill me in when they get here. Then Tammy said she had to go cut her split ends and Dad said something about going bald. I told Tammy, “You talk about your hair and weight too damn much!”

Anyway, they’ll probably hit the motel first, then come here and unload the stuff they have for us. They wanted to know if we had hoses so they could hose their car down. I let them know we have plenty of hoses. Also, I have the flag raised right now so that if they get lost, they’ll spot the flag.

Well, that’s it. I very well may not write again till after they’ve left, but we’ll see.

I forgot to say earlier that I woke up at 104 pounds! Yeah, but now I’m 106 and I haven’t been able to take a dump today, but hopefully I will and hopefully I won’t soar back up to 108.