Get off my lawn!

Nobody wants any of the stuff  on eBay, even if it's only a dollar or two, but if anybody wants to get rid of anything, just put it on my front lawn, near the road.  It WILL be gone.  A few summers ago, I had some extra lawn chairs I couldn't use.  I set them on my lawn,  with a Free sign and went into the house to get some twine to fasten the sign.  When I came out, a few minutes later, a man was loading them into his car.  This year I brought my vintage "clamshell" chair to the lawn sale at the library, since I was only 2 weeks from surgery and needed the firmness of the metal chair. While I was in the library for a brief time, two people offered to buy the chair.  Maybe it's a lawn furniture thing, but anything on my lawn, for free, is sure to go. 

"Way leads on to way"

  September is almost over, yet though time now generally slips away in record time, September has seemed like a long month.  It's the first September since I started first grade that I haven't gone back to school in some capacity, except for a few years when I worked at the Education Department, and that was school-connected in a way.  The month also serves as a reminder that for the first time since I was eleven years old, I haven't been employed in some capacity.  Being thus free and unencumbered brings with it a sense of isolation previously unknown.  I now subtract employers and co-workers as well as students from my circle of existence. No staff meetings, no emails, no letters, no messages left on my answering machine, no deadlines,  The way our society is set up, and at all levels, is when your services and presence are no longer required, contact tends to cease.  I could learn to knit, or quilt, or join a book club---but as one of my kids used to say, "Aw, 'it!"

Conception

  First thing this morning on the Today show, a chance to see the moment of  conception.  No, not that exactly, but just as the man's sperm was about to be introduced to the woman's egg, I changed the channel.  I didn't want to intrude on their privacy.

Bon Appetit

    There was a bag of Gum Drop Cookie dough on top of my TV.  But that was not as scary as a brown paper bag of Chicken Fingers on the bathroom vanity.  What's next?

Oily Dealings

  We had our furnace and water heater cleaned last week.  No problems there, but the technician said the oil tank needed to be replaced because of rust.  He declared it unsafe, and he put  a "Stop Fill" on the tank.  They offered to replace the tank for a mere $2595, with a $200  discount , I guess for being such a good customer.  We were able to get a local estimate of no more than $1400.  Yippee, we just saved almost a thousand bucks. 

To sleep....

  I don't mean Mr. Murphy or Mr. Pullman.  Congratulations to whoever  invented the bed.  It was a wonderful idea.

The News Today

  I just heard of a traffic fatality where four people were killed when a car upended over a traffic divider.  I remembered the time I saw a scene like that.  We were driving along at about 70 mph, as was the traffic across the divider, though we weren't really aware of that traffic flow.  Suddenly an explosion of light and sound and flying objects. I thought, though probably did not speak, "Look, an accident over there,"  as the SUV careened along the barrier, emitting a volley of screeches, clangs, sparks and flying auto parts.  But before the thought could have been completely finished,  the scene changed.  "Over there" became "right in front of us,"  as the vehicle upended over the barrier directly into the path of our car.  It spun, landed eventually on one of its sides, and came sliding down the highway.  I thought it's going to hit us, and tried to picture how bad the collision would be.  We were in the right lane, and drove as far onto the shoulder as possible and the sliding monster finally came to a halt in the left and middle lanes, as it was on its side.  Tragedy averted.  I wonder how the couple in the SUV are doing.  They were both able to walk, though the woman appeared to be in shock.  I tried to google the accident, but could find no information.  Just another road event   if you're not involved.