Things have been back to normal sound-wise around here. It’s been a peaceful day in the country so far today. Just faint voices here and there when we’re outside, but nothing from inside. Yesterday was also a quiet country day, but the day before that I heard his motorcycle once or twice, plus a few barks around midnight. It seems quieter on weekends which I appreciate so that my time with Tom isn’t disrupted. Jesse did have a visitor, so Tom saw when he returned from the store before I got up.

Today he hung the line across half the porch for hanging heavy things like towels and jeans.

We are slowly but surely taking back bits and pieces of our lives, like rejoining Netflix for one. He can’t get the new box till tomorrow, so when he gets home from work tomorrow night, that’s when we’re going to sign up for Netflix (I’m also going to get more freebies). I miss renting movies and by now there are some new ones I’d like to see. We’ll also place the Ashton order, too.

I sent Jessie a message letting her know that I tried to call, the phone was picked up, then disconnected, though I did call back and leave a message. She said she didn’t recognize the number (I gave her the landline number), but that it was probably Bella who disconnected, she sometimes picks up like that. Yeah well, we can’t afford to throw money away like that either, so I told her that since the cell phone’s connection is lousy here, if she’s willing to keep trying the landline till she gets a hold of me, and since she’d be paying for the call, I’ll pay to send her and Bella some dolls and books I think they’d like. As it is, she said she’d like the pizza coupon I can’t use, but hasn’t yet given me her married name or new address, so I have to wait for that first.

As much as it would be cool to have Jessie living close by I’m also glad she doesn’t. That animal of hers would be such a pest, getting into all kinds of things during visits.

I decided to expand my little autobiography some more, beginning with when we moved into the dump on up till when we moved in here.

Tom’s going to call AT&T and let them know that since they refuse to adjust their modem to give us the speed we’re paying for, why not just downgrade our account so that at least the price fits the speed?