P&D House News

All is well on the homefront.  Our anniversary went well, with me cooking dinner (most of what I wanted to cook, anyway).  On Thursday evening, we went up to Gatlinburg for the parade, then went cruising around on Friday.  We just completely didn’t want to go into Gatlinburg, but we wanted to get out of the house, so we just started taking forks in the roads.  We went up to Cosby (a stop sign in the East Tennessee hills), then up the section of the Foothills Parkway that runs from a little West of there to I-40.  We drove into NC, then turned South and headed back through Maggie Valley and down the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Smokies.  We ate at Howard’s on Thursday, and at Shoney’s, of all places, on Friday.  Saturday saw us in Pigeon Forge and at home.

I’m about 1/3 through prepping my garden beds for the summer.  I need to level 3 frames and get the good dirt, and I’ll be set to go.  I may even set out some leafy greens in August, since that will be enough time for them to pop and mature, and the weather will be cool enough in October for them to be well on their way to my salad bowl.  As per my hopeful gardening–idiom?–plan?–you know what I mean–I plan to get heirlooms.  I’ve found the Seed Savers Exchange, and the Southen Exposure Seed Exchange, thanks to Heirloom Vegetable Gardening, by William Woys Weaver.  SSE has a lettuce mix I’m really interested in trying out, so we’ll see.

Finally, I have a new phone, wich I have to go back to US Cellular to discuss parts and accessories.  Seems my phone should have had a USB cable in the box, according to LG’s web site, and it didn’t.  It’s the UX260 black that’s been advertised on TV recently.  I’ve seen another phone like it and really like it, so there you go.  I’ve got a microSD card on the way, too, so I can use it as a 2 GB MP3 player.  I hate that I had to leave AT&T, with whom I’ve been happy for almost 5 years, but I don’t didn’t get reception in the house, or much outside the house, with their service.  Had they offered their DSL in this area, we would have switched and gotten a land line, since those and the cell service together along with Netflix are cheaper than the cell and Charter’s Internet w/ 12 channels…  Oh, well.  That’s life.

I’d go on, but life’s just how it is.

Cheers,

Red Wolf