Memories are made of this

Some things are just more memorable than others - for me, the end of WW II signaled by a siren going off in the employee housing settlement near Bloomington, Texas; Schortie, my first puppy (a daschund); my sister falling out of a tree and hurting her back when I was pretty small, in Mississippi; my first sighting of the Monterey Peninsula after a hard winter's basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, thinking maybe I had died and gone to heaven; and the list goes on. What are some of your favorites? Topic change - we have had three glorious days of sunshine and largely blue skies - I think I got a little sunburn working in the yard a couple of hours today - wearing short pants and a short sleeved shirt and being plenty warm. More shifts - perhaps only a sentence or two on a topic - met two swell fellows this week, one an audiologist who owns his own practice and gave me some good advice about a possible alternative portal to get back to doing some hearing testing by becoming a member of the New Zealand Audiometrist Society; and a second gent, goes by the moniker of the Lawnmower Doctor (he picks up and delivers) who wasted no time in telling me I had not destroyed the innards of the drated machine, just tilted it too much so some oil got in the air filter and cylinder and he fixed that, and also put the top portion of the handle right side up - I had installed it upside down - very sweet guy. (shift) Carrie is finally really on the upswing - breathing more easily, having less pain where the evil pleurisy resides on her left side - that and the weather have really cheered me up, too. Has anyone seen the movie Teeth - it was playing here but I missed the two days it was shown. Read the reviews - sounds wierd but interesting at least to some of us twisted mind folk. (shift) I really enjoyed watching the Olympics - coverage in New Zealand was mostly on different sports, not necessairily with New Zealand participants though they had a lot of that - devoted up to ten or twelve hours a day sometimes. Thanks as always for your support and interest. Last thing today - I am still on the trail of learning what a squirrel hammer massage is - I called and was told it is like acupressure, but when I asked about its name was told to come in and they would show me - maybe I will go - hope if I do I come back!