WARMER BY THE SECOND

Jerry Day is coming up very soon. June 7, 2007 must be marked for sure on the calendar of one & all. Jerome John Garcia, who died about twelve years ago, believe it or not, gets his annual tribute that day. I've always been a big fan of the Dead. I often hum songs like "Don't Ease Me In" absent_mindedly from out of nowhere. The weather these days just keeps right on getting lovelier & lovelier by the second. I've always been a fool for an excessively warm day. KrissyKrissyKrissy is finally & at last back from N.Y. My niece Bridget's birthday_she'll be in the double digits from then on_is on Sunday. Now that she'll be an officially big kid there'll be for sure no stopping her. Alas, I need a haircut some one of these days. I've never been a fan of those jaunts to the friendly neighborhood barber but they're a necessary evil.

A WALKING SNAPPLE CAP

Of course, Cathleen called me, yesterday, a walking Snapple cap, so I couldn't resist. I've always been really knowledgeable about all sorts of odd things & she made sure she put me on the spot about it. The weather has been getting much more to my liking lately. I've been walking at least once every couple of days. I try to exercise at least a fairly nice amount every day too. It's good for me. KrissyKrissyKrissy, to the very best of my knowledge, will be back bright & early tomorrow morning. I've been getting as much practice as possible these days with putting images into my blogs. It's much more enjoyable than always having to rely on mere words. I see that Russian looker is still trying to get me to help her come over to the U.S. I just humor her & politely ramble on. That's about how I usually deal with most people anyway. I haven't heard from the holy rollers lately though. I wonder what they could be up to these days.

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT

I finally managed to crack the code. I got started fiddling around on those little computer discs & managed to figure out exactly how to put some pictures onto my sites. Whoo!! There'll be no stopping me now. I'm still reading that Jane Austen book. I just overheard the librarian telling another patron that they'll be opened on Saturday & closed on Monday. That's Memorial day, don't you know? One of these days I shall have to get my nephew Michael, college boy extraordinaire, to help me figure out how to get stuff straightened out on my computer. I haven't been able to use it for quite a long time. The library is unusually quiet today. I always enjoy it because too much traffic gets me crazy. Copiague's library is always an absolute nightmare for me. KrissyKrissyKrissy is in New York now until Friday. My parents are still both violently sick with exceptionally bad colds. My hay fever is mildly bad these days. Today I cut the grass. It's not a nice job but somebody most certainly has to do it.

KEYSTONE STATE

Hi. This is what Pennsylvania really looks like from a plane.

BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEVE

Today's my brother.in.law Steve's birthday. He & I have known each other for quite a long time by now. He's the music teacher of the bunch. I made sure I promised to send him at least an e.mail. Knowing me, you knew by now I most certainly couldn't possibly have been expected to resist at least a mention of it on my blog. KrissyKrissyKrissy left early last night & was late getting home this morning. I get bad dizzy spells just thinking of her schedule. The library's been abnormally quiet so far today. Lately it's been stark raging packed lots of times. I read quite a whole lot of that Jane Austen book yesterday. Gas prices have been absolutely going through the roof lately. It seems as if they're at least a nickel more expensive each day per gallon.

EVERYBODY'S SICK LATELY

My parents both have extremely bad colds. I have hay fever. It's a very sick time these days. Ever since that fateful trip to Elaine's party, life appears to have flipped out, though I already had my hay fever anyway. The party went quite well for Stacy & Mike, according to what everybody told me. I've been reading Jane Austen's Emma again. I finally went over to Kingston to get my oil change this morning. It was very easy. Unlike many times, I didn't end up getting the rundown about my usual veritable plethorae of car nightmares. It was inexpensive, fast & easy. There was an accident on the way home. I was driving on the northbound lane of Wyoming Ave. It was between a van & a car behind it. The car's hood was completely smashed out of whack. I haven't gotten into an accident in quite a while & can honestly say I haven't been in a single one over the entire time I've lived around here. It rained yesterday but only a spring shower. We ate pizza. The weather's very cool today but I overheard a few people say we can expect very nice warm weather for a while. Great Caesar's ghost! I see KrissyKrissyKrissy finally & at last got her big chance to read my blog. It most certainly took her quite a while.

BIG MONTHLY CARMELITE MEETING

This morning I was out by slightly after 8:00a.m. for the big monthly Carmelite meeting over in Wilkes Barre. During the meeting, I drank a cup of tea & ate a pastry. We meet at 200 S. Meade St. at 8:30a.m. every third Saturday morning of the month. Anyone who's interested in joining the lay Carmelites in Northeastern Pa. may give us a visit. The weather's very nice today, which is quite a treat because all the ladies made plans to go to Elaine's house for the big party. There was a bunch of traffic on my way home from the meeting so I should most certainly hope, for their sake, they managed to get a much better break than I, because Elaine lives around two hours away. My hay fever's still been bugging the hell out of me. Maybe it's because of my new neck of the woods but this year it seems to be particularly bad for me. On my way home there was a walk for asthma going on. That's always very nice to see.

KRISSYKRISSYKRISSY'S LATE

As of last time I checked, KrissyKrissyKrissy wasn't back just yet. There's something going on with her trees. Two days ago was Aunt Lauren's birthday. Today I went to the gas station in Exeter only to be confronted with a major price hike. It's all a scam. I get a bit chilly doing the Friday dance. Tomorrow is the big day for Stacy. I won't be there though. I'll be at the Carmelite meeting. On Monday I have absolutely got to get an oil change. I get lazy about stuff like that unfortunately. It's not a barrel of laughs to go way down to Kingston & twiddle my thumbs while a bunch of guys climb under my car all day. I've found out about another scam. The holy rollers are a smidge on the quiet side lately but this one's taken their place. A girl named Elena, from Moscow, Russia, sent me an e.mail claiming to want to move to U.S. & meet a nice man. When I looked it up on the internet, I found out that that's a very common scam these days too. Russian women send mail & pictures(wink wink nudge nudge, hint hint hubba hubba) trying to get gullible American men to help them. Lately I seem to be on everybody's scam list. All sorts of hysterically dysfunctional characters have always managed to find their way to me.

HAY FEVER

All day Tuesday & yesterday I was absolutely miserable with have fever. I got so violently sick with a headache that yesterday I literally couldn't eat except a peanut butter sandwich & cheese & crackers at the end of the night. KrissyKrissyKrissy claims that when friends of hers moved to Pa. they were forced to take the written test over again to renew their driver's licenses but I didn't have to be bothered. I should most certainly hope that by now she's at least gotten a chance to read my blog. Election Day was Tuesday & I'm very sorry to say I didn't bother. I completely forgot to keep up with who was running against whom. Surprisingly, it wasn't the least bit hard to park here that day. On Tuesday I took a walk. I've been keeping up quite well with the habit. A lot of people around here like to walk along the levee that goes on for about two & a half miles but I'm quite happy with the local streets. On Saturday morning Stacy will be having her wedding shower & I shall be at the Carmelite meeting. Everybody can look forward to a very busy day. Once again the library is absolutely overrun with little children today. They most certainly seem to be able to keep all the young.uns quite happy.

VERY BUSY WEEKEND

The past few days were extremely active for me. Because yesterday was Mother's Day, there was lots of company for the weekend. Matt & Brianne even showed up. The only thing I didn't handle too well was the Oriental restaurant. The food is Chinese & Japanese. I most certainly enjoyed most of it, most especially the peanut butter chicken. A lot of the food was quite seriously odd, though, I literally ate seaweed & ginger. KrissyKrissyKrissy made sure she promised to check out my blog. I know Matt & Brianne have most certainly seen it many times by now. Mary Anne & Fran stayed out on Saturday night until around 1:30 a.m. Tomorrow parking here will be an absolute nightmare. It's Election Day & the traffic congestion in the parking lot will be pure hell. Yesterday we went to the graveyard at St. John the Evangelist Church in Pittston to visit the deceased relatives. Graves there go back at least as far as the Spanish American War. Graveyards around here are much more fun than the ones in New York. Young uns around here even literally get to ride through them on bicycles. It's like a park with dead people in it. My hay fever's been driving me crazy lately. Every season has its share of bad news. I'll most certainly take this over cold weather anytime.