About next door’s party - thank God they didn’t start their partying till around 6:30 and not at 2 PM like they used to, cuz then that’d be all the more hours for them to party.

The first carload came at 6:30, but I didn’t hear anything till 8:00. That’s when their kid and maybe other kids, and the adults started screaming non-stop for a good 45 minutes to an hour. It started to rain at this point, but even that wouldn’t drive them indoors. One or more than one of the kids was racing up and down the driveway with what sounded like an electric toy car.

Amazingly, there was no ball playing, but there couldn’t have been cuz afterward Tom said he saw 3 cars over there when he left for work at 7:30. Then, it was just the adults I heard till about 9:30. They must’ve had cars filled out to the street, cuz at one point I heard a horn honk that I could tell was on the street, then one of the adults yelled out, “Stop honking that horn!” Not because they were worried about it annoying others, of course, but because it annoyed them. There was a light blue car there and the maroon one, too. So Mike must drive these cars for a while, then sell them to friends, I guess. I only heard music for a few seconds as someone either came or left and it was so soft that I wasn’t even sure what I was hearing, so if I had been asleep, I’d never have been woken up.

At 9:30, they finally packed it in and even their dog shut up. That thing’s been barking more than the two dogs lately!

I got a message from my dad saying he heard I called and bet I was shocked that they got a computer and AOL. Yeah, I was. He also says they’re putting together a package of small and large flags, which is so nice of them.

I would copy and paste all their messages here, but then they wouldn’t be in my written journals and I don’t feel like copying all their messages to me by hand. Not that there’ll be too many or that they’ll be that long, I’m sure. So, we’ll see.

I guess I misunderstood Tom. I thought we were going GP hunting today, but instead, we’ll be going tomorrow. Hope I find that all-black piggy I always loved.

I love our new stackable washer and dryer. David hauled it here in his truck and they brought it in together. Then, Tom showed David some stuff on the Internet and I showed him a journal and some drawings.

After David left, he cut part of a high cupboard out, cuz this thing’s tall and we wanted it to fit in nicely, then installed the washer/dryer. I can reach the dryer lint trap easily. The washer one’s self-cleaning, so that’s nice. There’s a really super cool feature to the dryer and that’s that it’s got a sensor in it, so if the clothes are dry sooner than you’ve set it to shut off, it’ll shut off on its own. There are only two things I don’t like about it, but they’re minor inconveniences and that’s that the washer isn’t of very big capacity and I can’t wash and dry at the same time.