Beth is back from Perdido today and is really happy that I taught Tobi to fetch in the water. A lot of dawgs can fetch, but Tobi can dive better than I can.
She does great fetching a stick. Unfortunately, she’s obsessed with Frisbees, to the point that she dove under water looking for it. We were all close to going in the pond to rescue her, but she surfaced, grabbed the Frisbee, and brought it on home. We were too nervous to get a photo.
All 22 pictures are on Flickr.
We went out to Johnny’s for Memorial Day once again. Jack and Ginny are here from California, so Jack cooked some of his famous lamb. He says he has a hard time getting good meat here in Mississippi, but I thought the chops were fantastic!
Here’s Jack…can’t stop these kids from texting, even with family around…
Tobi’s mom abandoned her, so we took her out there to try to find someone to adopt her. She had a great time in the pond and really enjoyed a mudpack and facial treatment. She went into the water over her head.
Here are 3 of the Lawrence sisters, Liz, Mary Nell, and Carolyn:
Uncle Chris (left side of next photo) grew up out in Florence. Even though I consider him as family on the Lawrence side, he grew up with the Stevens out in Florence and has a lot of old stories about Johnny and his sisters.
I have no idea about the next pic:
This is Ginny, Martha, and Johnny:
This was the sacrificial lamb:
This is Brad’s friend, Joseph. Brad and Joseph were with Joseph’s family at Paul B. Johnson State Park this weekend. They stopped by on the way back and enjoyed the fantastic meal.
All the photos are on Flickr.
I bought some replacement speakers for my Mac at home just because I wanted some extra room. The old speakers I had from the early 90′s had a sub-woofer that took up a whole cabinet in my teeny tiny office. I bought a pair of M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 speakers from Amazon that do not have a sub-woofer based on a recommendation from Scott Bourne on Macbreak Weekly. They sound absolutely fantastic. I turn off my Bose now and listen to the M-Audio speakers if I’m the only one listening to tunes.
Laura was home for a short visit and invited Daniel over. Skipper came over also and we had some chicken and roasted corn cooked on the new grill. It was a good night.
I ran my car down to empty on the fuel gauge and one mile left on range indicator. I then filled up with 16 gallons ($3.88/gallon!). It would not take another drop.
I then looked up the tank capacity and found that it should hold 18.8 gallons (2006 Lexus GS300). On my last tank, I averaged over 29 mpg, so Lexus has built in a pad of more than 80 miles! I do believe that you shouldn’t be burning the last gallon of gas from a car as the water and junk settles to the bottom of the tank, but that seems like an excessive pad. The important thing is to know about the pads and not sweat it if you seem to be in trouble. Somehow the budgeting process from my Time Warner Cable days came to mind…
There is nobody like Tobi!
Rhonda’s GPS is really, really nice. It can recalculate if you take a different route so that you’re still on track. For instance, I went to Applebee’s tonight to pick up dinner for me (Rhonda is down with a really bad virus). It assumed I would go down 51. When I took I-55 instead, it recalculated the route without a problem. It even knew the layout of the exit and on-ramps. That gives me confidence that it will work correctly for Rhonda when she’s in unknown territory.
Not many moms got a grill for Mother’s Day, but this one is particularly nice. She also got a Nuvi for garage sales and for her trip to California with her dad. Brad used it to go to church this morning and texted me that he wanted one! Fortunately, he’s grounded almost all the time, so no purchase is necessary.
It’s going to be a long, long summer…
it is possible but not easy…