Carrots make yummy teethers.

Uncle Joe is worried that our standard sized mailbox is too small for all of the mail coming to this house now that I have moved in. Granted, Uncle Bud does get about thirty pieces a day as he is a great philanthropist and is on many many charity mailing lists. So Joe went to Curry Thomas Hardware and bought a new mailbox.

I think I could fit in there.

We’re going to go for a walk.

Come play!

We have had a couple of nights in the fifties and days in the seventies. Uncle Joe is cold natured because he sits in his chair all day and doesn’t get his blood moving (He doesn’t have a choice about that anymore, but that is a whole other conversation.) Uncle Joe had Wally the Furnace Man come yesterday turn on the furnace. The thermostat is set at 75 degrees. The ceilings downstairs are twelve feet. Heat rises. The furnace continues to pump hot water through the radiators. Heat rises through the ceiling. I think it is at least eighty degrees upstairs. I live upstairs. Joe does not. It’s hot. I don’t think that I should have to completely change my wardrobe when I move from inside to out…make that strip to nothing every time I enter my quarters. But I do. And I will get over it. For now. Until I see the gas bill. (by the way, Joe doesn’t see the gas bill. My father pays it. Joe can’t be bothered with such things)

We’ll see what happens when Tom gets here (he’s still working on the house in Atlanta.) He gets very cranky when he’s hot. Sounds from what I have typed above that I do too.

The uncles have adjourned from dinner and moved into the living room to watch The Lawrence Welk Show on channel 8. When it’s over, they’ll change the station to channel 25 and watch the same episode all over again.

I’m not kidding. Not even a little bit.

There’s a river out there somewhere.

Uncle Joe turned 74 yesterday. I cooked dinner and all three aides were present to celebrate. From left to right: Melissa, Phyllis, and Barbara.

Four generations:

So I could spend Sunday evening playing Settlers of Catan with my brother and Chrystal.