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Joan and I celebrated with Rose at Gravity last night. Cal paid for the first round of drinks so we had some really cool (and a bit pricey) cocktails...I'm not sure he'll pay me! Rose had a bloody mary with a beer chaser.  It was decorated with an olive and some cheese.  Joan had a blood- orange cocktail and I had a cosmo. Good stuff! Rose and I pigged out on double cheese burgers and Joan had a pizza. We also enjoyed a baklava cheesecake! Pizza...she almost ate it all!! Double cheeseburger and chips! Baklava cheesecake...good but different. Cheers! On the Sunday night before, we celebrated on her deck with shrimp, cheese fondue and birthday cake I hear she had a steak dinner the next evening!   Then one more event with a few friends who also have July bdays... Talk about a very celebrated birthday!!

Renting out an apartment is time consuming.  I'm hoping that the new tenants will stay as long as this last one.   The yard looks good and the basement has been cleaned out but a fter two years, the apartment really needs a painting and a good cleaning.  The windows needs washing and some screens need repairing.  I have the fourth showing tonight.  I'm not sure I have found the right tenant yet.   The new tenant has to live beneath Jxx who makes no excuses for his noise because according to him, everyone else is probably more at fault than he is.  He also claims the walls are paper thin and if he can hear the conversations of the tenants below as if they are in the same room then they can put up with his noise.  Then he says he is losing his hearing and so has the right to have his TV turned way up...and it's unreasonable to use headphones (even blue-tooth ones). He seems to feel he has the right to dictate to who...

Nathania had a baby shower for the new baby R.  Good games, great food, lots of fun.

So a month on the road is behind me.  I've been back an entire week and one day. The yard is ablaze with color --after all it is July and that's when the day lilies bloom. Lots of varieties and lots of buds!

I took the redeye from Anchorage...painful. The yard survived...it just needs some TLC It's nap time