Rain Rain stay away

We are in a drought period. Last week with high temperatures with a “real feel” of up to 110. Then we got rain. I know we are in a drought, but we’ve had plenty of rain, rain, rain. Enough already! The weather finely turned today. We are looking forward to a week of nice weather.

We haven’t done much this week. We had a food truck Thursday. A neighborhood party Saturday (bad hamburgers, sides and deserts provided by attendees). Tonight we will go to a Jimmy Buffet tribute band in Catonsville.

I sold my recumbent trike. I still had a bike carrier designed to let me haul the bike on the back of our car. It is large and heavy. It’s so heavy that it comes with wheels. That’s a good thing because there is no way I could pick it up. I put the carrier on Craig’s List. There was no response. After two weeks, I re-listed it. Again it drew no response. In desperation I put it up on our local Facebook group, offering it free to anybody living in our neighborhood. The very next day, a guy in Virginia called. He drove over hour to get here. We played around with it until he was satisfied it was OK. He paid cash. That’s a good thing. It’s not a ton of money, but it’s good to get a little cash. What’s much more important is that he wants to use it. He likes to drive to a group ride, take the bike off his car, and ride with his group. It’s good to know the carrier will be used. Also it gives us a little more room in our very cramped garage. Yea!

That’s it for this week. I hope everytbody is doing well.

Quiet week

It was a quiet week. Last Sunday we went to Essex Community College to se the musical Xanadu. I am always pleasantly surprised at the quality of their presentations.

Unless you are living under a rock, you know that this weekend is the 250th birthday of our country. There was music, fireworks, and amusements all all kinds. That made this weekend an ideal time to stay home. There had to be some pretty heavy and widespread partying. We had about half the normal number of people at Mass this morning. We went to IHOP for our Sunday breakfast. It also had notably fewer patrons. No doubt aspirin consumption this morning was off the charts.

I hope all are fully recovered from your celebrations and all are doing well.