Update on Tuxie. After being gone two weeks she came home. She was on top of our garage building at the back of the property. She walked accross the roof and jumped down on the open door and then down on Elizabeth's old van and then to the ground and walked up to me like she'd never been gone. We worried that she may take off again but has been staying close to the house and sleeping in at night.
Hailey was home most of the week with a cold. She went to school Monday only to have me come and pick her up from the nurses office. She had a slight fever and probably a light case of flu. She went back to school today. There usually isn't a lot of traffic on the roads up here in Eucalyptus Hills. Today a white van at the corner started to back up saw my car and drove on pretty fast. I made the stop and then followed. Around a curve there was an old man with a cane and a black standard poodle on a leash standing in the middle of the road. He totally stopped and waved us ahead. He looked confused. I waited for him to cross. The white van must have whizzed right by him. Probably why he was standing in the road. After he walked passed I stopped next to him and rolled down my window and told him he had a nice dog. He said thank you back. We see many people out walking in the mornings and most of them have dogs. I watch out for them because the roads are narrow and sometimes the dogs and the people too walk out on the pavement.
Dropped off Hailey at school and then I decided to swing past Jack in the Box on the way home for some coffee. At the corner of the building a man on a tall stepladder was replacing the metal flange that edges the roof. Must have been met with a motorhome driving too close. They just take down the damaged piece of metal and replace with a new one from the truck. Must happen a lot.
On the way up the hill I drove back Valle Vista and saw that Valle Vista was blocked off with a detour just past the fire station. That doesn't change my path because I always turn at the fire station to take Pinehurst to Manzanita Road. About half way to Manzanita two peacocks were crossing the road. I totally stopped. They stopped too and turned back the way they came. So I waited. Then when they finally got off the road I saw that another vehicle was coming up behind me. I took off for home.
I bought a Garmin GPS and when checking it out found that the little voice can't say Valle Vista. Old timers here pronounce it Val Vista. Newer folks say Valley Vista. I sure don't know what that little voice says but it is not an understandable utterance.
I got the GPS because we plan to take a trip up to Washington state and it will be so much easier finding where we want to go than a road map. It has been fourty years since I've been up there. E.R. has made several trips up over the years. As a child we went up there many summers with our mom. Her family is all from there. E.R. has a lot of family there too though they were from Kentucky originally.
My cousin Valerie and I have kept in touch all these years and haven't seen her since she made a trip down here in the mid ninties to stay with my sister. We talk on the phone often though.
My photoshopping board is having another challenge. This one is turning out quite interesting. We have two photos of Hailey that I posted and we are changing and editing the photos. So far some really nice work. For the photo sections the theme is pets or animals.
I've cut down on the spam bots registering on my board by banning most of the free email servers. That has helped a lot. Most people have an isp address that they can join up from. If they don't I will help them get on the board. Spam bots suck and it is surprising how many free email servers let the spam bots use their servers to sign up on forums and boards. Hotmail and gmail are two that a person would think would have some screening to prevent the spam bots from signing up.
