My Charmed Life

I found this in some of my mom's Christmas stuff. It is well known that my dad was chauvinistic, but my mom was a quiet feminist, I guess. REMEMBER THIS AT CHRISTMAS!!
According to the Alaska Department of fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth in the spring.
Therefore, according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, EVERY single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen, had to be a girl.
We should've known. ONLY women would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost. She was probably pregnant too!

Wow! I am back to school and things are moving along at a frenetic pace. I have a good class and only 23 students right now. Terry and I have been working around the house on projects that all seem to be about 1/2 begun...but we are making progress.
The kitchen ceiling fell in from a leak in the swamp cooler line, so that had to be fixed.
We bought a used hot tub, we got it up on the second story deck, but it still needs to be repaired.
The garden is producing and we are eating tomatoes and corn like crazy, but also freezing some too. Potatoes are looking good, we already harvested garlic, onions and shallots. Cucumbers have been very bitter...anyone know what that means?
We took the camper we bought (used) out for a week. It worked well, but has a water leak that needed to be fixed, ordered the parts, they are there, but we haven't opened up the camper again to finish the repair.
I am wearing an arm brace because I have tendinitis, and it hurts.
We celebrated our 30 wedding anniversary on the 22nd.
Terry has lost 20 pounds and looks great. I found his 20 lost pounds around my middle and my butt. The dental hygienist was trying to pay me a compliment on my clean teeth, but he made a Freudian slip. He meant to say that I could afford skip a few times of brushing and flossing and it wouldn't hurt anything, but the way it came out was that I could afford to miss a few meals and it wouldn't hurt anything. I laughed...he is right.
We have been riding our motorcycles every chance we get.
The neighbors tree is already turning fall colors and a few leaves are starting to fall.
The temperature has been in the high 90's for over a week now. (That is extra hot for here). Nights cool off nicely. Life is good, but summer is coming to an end. How was your summer?

It has been a long time since I have slept in a real dive....until this trip. I am in a southern Utah town for my summer job this week, and there is a lot going on in town and the only place in town (in the work budget) is a dive! They make the reservations and I just show up.
Sewer gas in the bathroom, gray water from the tap, a cold hot tub, and a constant smell that is illusively putrid are just some of the highlights. It sort of smells like the place flooded 45 years ago and they just covered it up without cleaning. Whoever painted must have been drunk or blind or both. I am keeping my sense of humor, but I hope you don't feel bad if I don't invite you over this week. There is no elevator and the stairwells give you the creeps like a scary movie.
I have my computer plugged into a 6 plug device which is plugged into a regular two plug socket, and it has an extension cord plugged into the device and every electrical thing in the room is plugged into this device or the extension chord...including the wall A/C unit. I don't see a visible fire alarm, so if it all goes up in smoke I don't think I'll even wake up. My room sits below the outdoor pool, so maybe I could get water there to put out the fire, but the sliding door to the outside won't open up (it doesn't close all the way either). I guess I don't have to tell you I am not eating the breakfast they provide.
Life is always an adventure.