Us, December 25, 2021: Leo, Roy, Ondine, John, Shadow
Us, December 25, 2021: Leo, Roy, Ondine, John, Shadow
Leo's new car's registration went through, so he now has new license plates and current tags! A quick review: his 2012 Chevy Volt died, but John's Automotive happened to have a 2012 Prius C that they wanted to lien-sale out. It had a new hybrid battery pack, four new tires, and a lot of new components and recent repairs, and they only needed to make a little over what their costs were for fixing it. So we snapped it up.
But, when you buy a lien sale vehicle, you have to bring the registration up to date, which includes paying any unpaid fees and penalties. The DMV fees alone came to over $900. We used a DMV partner for the registration, because for their additional fee they take care of a lot of the paperwork, there's no waiting in line, plus they're open on Saturday. We started the process on a Saturday, and by the next Friday we got word that our new tags and license plates were ready for pickup! That was quicker than we'd expected!
So, the next morning we got the new plates and tags, put them on the car in nice new frames; the title arrived a few days later. This new-to-us Prius has been fantastic!
Ondine went to a retirement party last Saturday afternoon, it was a surprise party! She's been doing private Pilates workouts, and this week returned to the group classes! And, she had her meeting with her surgeon, and got the OK to return to Jazzercise and pretty much partake in whatever physical activity she wants! With the caveat that the swelling may take a year or longer to fully disappear. She had a mid-week outing this week to the sound meditation in the community garden with Lucy. And, this weekend she had Barbara's taxes done, and this afternoon went to a Cabi party.
John has been working steadily. He had one day in Imperial Beach, but otherwise has been working right here in and near Mission Trails Park! He's been getting into Victorian ghost stories, the gateway being M.R. James. There's something very cozy about a good ghost story that helps distract from the horror of what's going on in this country. He bought one anthology on Thriftbooks, the highly recommended Oxford, but he read it through fairly quickly and is awaiting the delivery of three more collections, two from Thriftbooks and the other from, of all places, Poshmark.
Shadow still seems to have itchy forelegs, but we think they might be getting better.
We saw a play last weekend: The Book of Will, at Lamplighters. It was about the creation
of the First Folio, the first collection of William Shakespeare's plays collected, edited, and printed fairly
shortly after his death.
Our big summer trip is coming together. We'll be going to Germany and England for three weeks. We just got our ETAs approved for travel to the UK. We're very excited about seeing friends and family in Germany, and seeing more of England with Leo!
The weather turned unseasonably hot for early spring, with record-setting high temperatures. John saw over 100 degrees in the field last week! This coming week looks like more of the same, with a heat advisory in effect all week.
Neighborhood gas prices soared to about $5.79 a gallon everywhere but the two price warring stations, which are both around $5.29.
Visit us often - this journal is the world's oldest continuously updated family blog, having been updated regularly since 1998! Who else has a 28-year-old active family blog?
Back to the Kuraoka Family main page, with lots more stuff, including photos!