12 Oakdale

Our Toyota Tacoma arrived and is in our garage. Sebastian called yesterday mid-morning. Could we come pick it up, and, of course, pay for it? Absolutely, if we could be guaranteed to be finished by 2:00, because our screen guy Mike was finally coming to fix pool screen panels which had blown in during a cold front 2 weeks ago. He was supposed to come Friday, but bad weather earlier in the week had messed up his schedule. Saturday, he ran late. Finally, Monday for sure. We’ve had a couple of birds fly in, which, thank goodness, were able to find their ways back out. Not so lucky were the 10+ butterflies who died before finding the huge opening they’d managed to fly in through. I’ve been able to grab a couple and throw them out. The rest avoided my trying to guide them out with our long handled pool skimmed. They now are displayed with other bugs, wasp nests, snake eggs, etc I’ve found in the yard this year. My deadline is not a problem. Should be quick in and out. We were paying cash, p...

The sharp pain in my left shoulder is due to my shoulder capsule being inflamed rather than a rotator cuff tear, so that was good news. According to Kirsten, my physical therapist, this can be alleviated with stretching and exercise. She stretches; I exercise. At home, I have an app to follow which Kirsten can monitor and change remotely. Every time I use it I can send a report and get a virtual gold star.  This was problematic while cabin camping at Myakka River State Park this week because our Sprint phones have no bars in most of the park. I exercised at the cabin, then when I was near the concession stand’s WiF, I ran the app to get credit.  The previous Friday we went to a Toyota dealer to look at Tacoma pickups. I wanted to see if the extended cab rear seats would fit Clara. Not hardly. They are smaller than airplane jump seats for the flight attendants. So crew cab for us. There were 2 2018’s on the lot with some 2021 trickling in over the next few months. A computer ch...