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<\/a><\/p>\nShe looks much younger, I think. I too look younger than I am, or so everyone says. Donna and Gregory\u00a0as well. Sometimes I’m shocked to learn some of the really-old-looking people we meet are our own age, or even a few years younger. We need to learn to count our blessings.<\/p>\n
The exterminator was here yesterday, poisoning ground squirrel burrows and pack rat nests. At this moment a healthy-looking ground squirrel is sitting on its haunches just outside our\u00a0home office window. Maybe it’s a slow-acting poison? Normally I’d say live and let live, but ground squirrels chew\u00a0the siding on\u00a0our house and a\u00a0few years ago pack rats gnawed through all the wiring under the hood of our old T-bird. Too bad we can’t all just get along, though.<\/p>\n
I can hardly believe it myself, but I watched the first episode of Iron Fist on Netflix and liked it. I like Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, too, and I have a hard time saying why. I’m not a comic book or superhero fan, but the writers of these shows inject enough real life to make them interesting. Polly was asking me what else we watch on streaming TV; when I mentioned how much I’m enjoying Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I missed when it was first on TV, she said no wonder, Joss Whedon produced it\u00a0… I hadn’t made that connection before, but she’s right. Not saying he has anything to do with the Marvel shows, but someone with similar sensibilities must be involved in those.<\/p>\n
Well, I needed a Trump break and I hope you did too. Saturday chores beckon. More soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Donna and I are once again scheduling\u00a0separate spring vacations. She’s going to California in April to visit aunts & uncles, attend the annual\u00a0Giustina family reunion, and see\u00a0some\u00a0friends. Her destinations are\u00a0all in northern California, from the Bay Area north\u00a0to Chico. Meanwhile I’m planning a May motorcycle trip with our son Gregory. We were originally going to ride\u00a0from Las Vegas to South Lake Tahoe and back. But I want to see\u00a0friends in the Sacramento area, which is just downhill from Lake Tahoe, and Gregory thinks he can do some work with one of his casino accounts near Coulterville, so now we’re planning to hit NorCal too.\u00a0Heading back to Las Vegas from Coulterville gives us an opportunity to cross the Sierras through\u00a0Yosemite National Park, something we’ve both long wanted to do\u00a0(weather permitting … late May can still surprise).<\/p>\n