Every year, we take a trip to Lake Tahoe. My wife feels it is so the kids will have good memories of their younger years, even though it ages us beyond belief. And of course we usually take one of the kids friends along for the trip so the kids have some company. We always rent a different house and since we go in the middle of summer I ask my wife to rent a home with air conditioning. Well she found this wonderful house overlooking the lake with a fantastic view. When we get there we realize that we forgot about checking for AC, and the house is gorgeous but warm inside. Ok, we can manage this, and so we unpack and get ready to invite some friends over who are staying at a motel down the road. I make dinner and our friends come over and everything is going well, when my daughter yells we have a problem. We go over and her friend apparently has the stomach flu. OK, we can work through this. We try to find some cleaning supplies and get things cleaned up, and ask the friend to stay away form everyone else in case.
About an hour later we get a text message that we have another problem. Now before this message I had told my wife maybe we should go home the next day, and she said don't be silly. So this message led us to a problem that was worse than the first. Ok, we encourage our other friends to go back to their motel, and we clean up again.
The next morning the friend says she is fine so we decide to go on a hike. We go to Spooner Lake to do a 2 mile hike and everything goes fine. We get back in the car heading back to the house when suddenly I hear this loud gushing of fluids. Then both of our kids start screaming. My wife turns around and says kids, when we get back to the house we are packing and going home.
By the way I took my electric Mustang up there and on the way back from Incline Village I had as much range on my car when I got home as when I left the house up there. The car regenerates when it brakes and goes down hill. However, going up it uses twice as much so it all averaged out.
Jul 8 - 14
Even though I grew up across the street from a Catholic Church and school, I do not consider myself a religious person. However, when you are sent a sign, it is important to take the right path. And so when 3 cases of chocolate chip cookies got delivered to TAYLORS by accident, but were addressed to LDS Church, I knew then, this was a sign from God.
“Do not mess with the Cookies”
So, I proceeded to call the distributor but initially got nowhere. I then started calling all the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to see who was missing these cookies. Being Catholic, I thought maybe these were their form of Communion, but it became apparent I was wrong. I finally got through from someone who said these 3 cases were supposed to end up far, far away from Loomis. In the end a local LDS Church offered to take them off our hands. I was very appreciative since I would have probably eaten them all myself.
Also it has been so darn hot I thought we might as well close the kitchen and cook everything on the side walk. That's being eco-conscious, right?
Jul 1 - 7
Ok. so we had the talk again.
Cooper, you are now 3 years old. You are no longer a puppy. In human years you would be 21, and you would be moving out of the house. Now, I don't expect you to move out on your own, but bringing me the ball 50 times for me to throw it, is getting old. Especially, when you drop the ball just out of my reach. Now bringing me the ball 10 to 20, I could see that, but 50 times and then growling at me when I don't throw it fast enough. I mean really, you need to grow up.
No, we are talking, I am not going to throw the ball.
What, you would growl at me? I can't believe it.
Now you are barking.
OK, I will throw the ball only 10 times.
…
Total silence. (I think that is worse)
Ok, I will throw it 40 more times, but tomorrow you are down to 20.
BTW, look at what I discovered in the house in the hall to the outside porch…
Jun 24 - 30
Ok. So a few years ago I wrote that Heaven handled so many souls that it had had to have an administrative department, and that I felt the most logical group to run it were deceased DMV workers.
Well, what if I was wrong? (Don’t answer that.)
Now it seems more likely that that administrative dept would be AI. So if it is AI, did God go away to start 10,000 other planets and leave everything here to be run by an old Mac.
This is why you do not drink before you go to bed, because these are the dreams you come up with.