Ashley’s shoes were delivered today, though we won’t be picking them up till Saturday. Tomorrow Tom’s going to get us a new mailbox in Auburn.

I heard 5 rounds of sirens coming from who knows where earlier today, but if it was a fire, I didn’t see or smell smoke. This is the first time I’ve ever heard sirens like that here, though they could never be as loud here nestled in as we are.

Nothing from Jesse today other than someone honking a horn up there, if it wasn’t an alarm, and some howling from either a coyote or his own beast. Oh, and of course we had to have a minute or two of engine gunning. Other than that it’s been dead quiet.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to this weekend’s shopping spree at Ashton-Drake. I’ll be getting an anatomically correct lifelike newborn doll, a hummingbird with a beautiful floral design painted on its wings, a plate with sculpted flowers and hummingbirds, a pair of fairy ornaments, and a gorgeous hummingbird carousel with painted flowers and hand-set gems. This will come to just over $400.

We’ve allotted $85 a week for groceries and whatever’s leftover each week will be spending money.

Meanwhile, we’ve got a thousand dollars in savings, and Tom will set aside money each month to add to it. Hopefully, the horses will be adding to it too, but I still have yet to see that. He still has a lot of money in the account and so he placed $2 bets on 20 races today. We know he lost one of them because a jockey was thrown from his horse.

Later…

Yup, we’re just being teased all over again. That’s ok, we’ll stay right here. This place may be old and small, but as long as Jesse doesn’t become a problem or want to rent to someone he knows, we can live here forever. It’s colder than I’d like during the winter and it’s a bit expensive, but it sure beats an apartment in a scumplex and I’m sick of moving anyway.

See, when I emailed Tom to let him know the shoes had arrived and mention the sirens, he said the sirens were for a grass fire a few miles down the road, then said it looks like he’ll lose a few bucks today, don’t panic, he thought that may happen, will explain later…

Then why’d he place the damn bets?