{"id":34509,"date":"2024-01-17T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=34509"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:47:00","slug":"donut-dont-mind-if-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=34509","title":{"rendered":"Donut? Don’t Mind If I Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna’s hosting a sewing party. One of the ladies said she’d bring donuts. I know I shouldn’t partake. I also know I will. That’ll be the limit of my interaction with her guests; otherwise I’ll be in the home office or the reading nook, staying out of the way.<\/p>\n

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Among the many many things we need to sell or otherwise dump are these cameras (not the watch … it’s a favorite). Scanning listings on eBay, I see what looks like a brisk market in old 35mm SLR cameras; hobbyists still use film and the Canon AE-1 at least appears to be a sought-after item.<\/p>\n

But … Donna and I bought the Canon at our base exchange in the Netherlands before a winter ski trip to Austria, way back in 1980. It was our first serious (i.e., not a Brownie) camera. There are memories. And the Minolta? Our friend Mary Anne found it in a box of stuff that once belonged to her father. It contained half a roll of exposed film, the last photos he ever took with it. After having them developed, she gave the camera to us. How will it look to her if I cash out her gift? See? See how hard it is for old folks to get rid of stuff?<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>Speaking of stuff, the triple lead we got the dogs for Christmas is a bust. The way it works, three short leads clip onto a main leash. The problem? As the dogs weave around their leads twist, causing the clips to rub together on the D-ring. The rubbing sometimes moves one of the thumb releases, and off pops a dog. It’s happened twice now, once with Fritzi and once with Lulu. Being good girls, they sat still when I told them to stop, then waited patiently while I clipped them back on. If Mr. B ever got loose, he’d bolt for home or god forbid into the shiggy where the coyotes’ll get him, and we can’t have that.<\/p>\n

I’m back to walking Fritzi and Lulu on their old double lead, where the short leads are sewn together and won’t come loose, with Mr. B on his own separate leash. We’ve heard coyotes yipping at kills nearby during our last three walks, and I’m constantly on the alert.<\/p>\n

Our friends Bill and Terri are back in Tucson after a two-week sojourn in Quartzite, the winter RV Mecca made famous in the movie Nomadland<\/a><\/strong>, where, arriving after dark, they innocently set up their 5th wheel trailer home in an area known as the Magic Circle, a section of desert reserved for nudist campers.<\/p>\n

The reason they swung by Tucson again was to have the slide-out sections of their RV beefed up with heavy-duty components. The company that makes and installs those components is here. Bill and Terri are staying in an Air B&B while the work is done. We met at one of our favorite Mexican seafood restaurants last night, a local chain called Mariscos Chihuahua, and had a nice visit. Work on their rig should be done today and they’ll head back east tomorrow. We’ll see them again in the fall when they start a long trip to Alaska, an adventure they’ve been planning for years. Okay, I’ll confess … we’re a little jealous.<\/p>\n

So jealous, in fact, we’re talking about a road trip of our own. Most likely to California, with a visit to our kids in Las Vegas along the way, but maybe a real cross-country back East as well. More on that later.<\/p>\n

Daughter Polly is employed again, this time as an auto service writer at a nearby Walmart. So far she seems to like it, and has already installed more batteries than I have in a lifetime. Perhaps this gig’ll last a while, but we’ve learned not to jinx things by getting our hopes too high. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

The sewing ladies are here. Donna just brought me a small plate with two half-donuts and some orange wedges. Oh, and three deviled eggs. My day’s off to a good start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna just brought me a small plate with two half-donuts and some orange wedges. Oh, and three deviled eggs. My day’s off to a good start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,555,2],"tags":[4483,4480,4482,4484,4481],"class_list":["post-34509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-local-color","category-personal","tag-dogsontheloose","tag-forbiddenfood-2","tag-gettingridofballast","tag-nomads","tag-obsoleteconsumergoods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34509"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34531,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions\/34531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}