davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

More repairs! It never ends, eh? I would be annoyed about people’s cows wandering through my yard! At least you haven’t had a drought to dry out the pond? How hot is it?
... and I would like to be able to travel more and not spend all my time looking for a house.

Never ending; you know the drill!

The wandering cattle are annoying, but they're only occasional visitors, and they are easier to contend with than kids on ATVs.

Warmer than usual summer so far, with days up to 90F/32C. Fortunately the nights cool down to 50F/10C or lower. Normal levels of precipitation so far. Slightly higher than "average" snowpack last winter, and despite lurid predictions by "eksperts" of another drought year, the "monsoon season" has settled in as normal with late-summer rains. I have to run water in to the pond every three or four days to top it off for losses due to evaporation.

Say, how about a travel trailer? Live full-time on the road? Maybe one of these:

https://bowlus.com/query/choice-26/

Errr... maybe not that one. A "starting price" of over three-hundred grand? And that's in American dollars! The top o' th' line Airstream starts at a hundred grand less:

https://www.airstream.com/travel-trailer...avel--16rb

Oh well... it's only a dream house, anyway!  

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4 August - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Lost & Found

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I thought I'd lost this container and all the figures in it. I had become certain that I had accidentally disposed of these action figures and parts - so certain was I, in fact, that I had already purchased replacements for some of the smaller accessories.

I had looked through all of my "current" storage tubs three or four times, from the top to the bottom of the stack, taking everything out of the tubs and packing it back in to be sure I did not overlook anything. I had torn through stacks of empty boxes. I'd looked under tables. I'd looked in places where there was no reasonable reason for me to have stashed anything.

I had looked, or I thought I had looked, pretty much everywhere... except, apparently, where I had managed to stash this plastic tub with the missing action figures.

I was looking for something completely unrelated yesterday and in the process I moved some other things, and then I saw a tub that had something else I'd been planning to look for. When I went to move that  tub, there was yet another tub on top of it that I had to move first to gain access.

Then I discovered there was STILL ANOTHER tub on top of the one I had almost randomly decided to open, a small plastic tub that had been pushed to the back, hidden under a shelf, and in that hidden, buried tub were the missing figures I had given up for lost.

I can't quite figure how that tub and those figures ended up behind a stack of unrelated items, but I'm thinkin' maybe I have way too many of said "unrelated items" and a major mega-purge is in order.

4 August - A Doll A Day 2024