Russ and Gail love to Golf Myrtle Beach. We have been neighbors for about ten years now, and every February they disappear for the entire month to take advantage of one of the many Myrtle Beach Golf Packages that they have found that allows them to play their favorite golf courses. While they are off enjoying their Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations they have my wife go and water their plants a couple of times each week, and we bring their dog and cat over to our house to pet sit for them.
We don’t mind pet-sitting, their dog is a very affectionate Irish Wolfhound with a great personality, and their cat is, well, their cat is a cat! But at least the cat doesn’t scratch up the place or spray the walls, and doesn’t keep us awake crying all night long, so that is good! Russ and Gail send us a postcard from Myrtle Beach, and they always bring back some nice souvenirs, too!
A good friend of mine has gone to The Netherlands for the summer. He took along a “Magic Jack” which he said he could use to make phone calls from his computer for free. Well, he just called me from his apartment, and the connection was very static-y and he kept cutting in and out. I was quite surprised that the reception was so poor! I just went onto the Magic Jack website to see what their claims are regarding phone call clarity, and it seems as if they are only claiming to give good reception in the US and Canada. So I guess getting any kind of reception in from The Netherlands is pretty good!
Do you even know what Jellycat is? I didn’t, until my daughter told me that Jellycat is the queen of a fictitious country. Apparently all of the subjects in the country are animals. Well, my daughter wants to collect the jellycat stuffed animals that she found for sale on loulouscorner.com.
So, I suggested to my wife that she check out this website and see about ordering one for my daughter’s birthday, which is coming up soon. She told me that the website is essentially a specialty shop for gifts like designer baby clothes and eco-friendly barefoot dreams clothing. The eco-friendly part interested me quite a bit so I went online to see what they had. I was interested in the magnolia tree seedling that they sell, but I don’t think that magnolias would grow very well up here!
I looked at some of the jellycat animals too; I thought that the little truffle pig was cute.
The black flies and mosquitoes are overlapping each other at this point in time. It’s hard to go outside without getting eaten up by something! Thank goodness that we have Cutters and Ben’s 100 and Deep Wood Off at our disposal to help to repel those bloodsuckers!
Sometimes I can’t decide which is worse – the black fly or the mosquito. I think if I had to pick one, I think it would be the black flies because they hurt when they bite AND the bite itches later. With mosquitoes, you don’t usually feel the bite, but the bite itches later. But then again, at night when you are trying to sleep and there is a mosquito in the house buzzing around your head it is impossible to sleep until you’ve turned on the light and killed the thing! I’ve never noticed any black flies in the house at night – ever. So I guess it’s a toss-up alright!
We live far enough out in the “boonies” that going to a commercial gymnasium to get exercise simply isn’t practical. And to be perfectly honest, the line of work that I’m in keeps me going all day every day and having to seek out exercise equipment like elliptical machines and treadmills just isn’t something that I feel the need to do!
But my friend Joe is a desk jockey, and he owns his own business that has been doing very well for quite a long time now. So he has built an addition onto his house to use as his private exercise room. He has put in a lot of different exercise equipment in the room, along with a wide screen television so he can watch television while he is exercising.
He invited several of our friends over this past weekend to show off his new room. I have to admit it was impressive, but my favorite part of it was the refrigerator full of cold drinks and the wide screen television. After all, I exercise all day long!