Us, May 10, 2026: John, Leo, Ondine, Roy, with Shadow pasted in from May 24, lol
Us, May 10, 2026: John, Leo, Ondine, Roy, with Shadow pasted in from May 24, lol
Well, last week the city contractor dug and installed new sewer laterals for everyone on the block. But, that means our front landscaping is now considerably – but temporarily – worse for wear. It’s especially noticeable in our front yard, because several pavers and a border edge needed to come up, and next door, where the end of the brand new rock swale was taken out and the fresh dg topping disturbed. There may be some damage to the drip irrigation system as well. At any rate, the contractor will be looping around to put everything right when they finish the actual sewer work for this section, which is the cul-de-sac and up the hill a ways, which will be in a couple weeks.
Tomorrow is Election Day. We already cast our votes by mail, and have been notified that the've been counted.Healthcare stuff. You know you’re getting old when this kind of update gets posted here. We both had our teeth cleaned, so that’s done. And, we both had our COVID-19 shots, Ondine last weekend and John this weekend; Kaiser is only giving Pfizer, which is an mRNA vaccine. We both had our flu shots some time ago. While John was at Kaiser, he had a blood test done that his doctor had ordered ages ago. His blood levels look fine. Ooo.
For Jeff’s birthday we got together last weekend, and Leo joined us. Jeff chose the Denny’s in Chula
Vista. He’s moving to Chula Vista, so he’ll eventually find some new local favorite restaurants, but Denny’s
is dependable. He’s also back working at the MCRD. Afterwards, we all visited Barbara.
Leo’s bike is now in his hands. It’s an old blue Dahon Stowaway, which has to be one of the smaller
folding bikes. It’s very cool! We saw a few students zipping around on folding bikes, so it seems to be on trend.
We also got Leo a matching blue Giro bike helmet, and his lock. He stopped by the house to retrieve a bunch of
cooking stuff, his espresso maker, and bed linens, now that he’s in a new place.
We saw a play at Lamplighter’s, Misery by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King.
It was excellent!
John has his car decorated for Halloween. He repurposed his old PPE vest, so now his seat werewolf is an
archaeologist too. And, here’s John in his new PPE vest on location somewhere in the county. Speaking of Halloween,
it was actually raining that evening! We stayed in and watched An American Werewolf in Longon.
Our kitchen remodel has a start date in November. Ondine is moving her office into a back bedroom, a move long planned but finally stirred into action; yesterday we moved her desk and today she’s setting up for work Monday. The good news is, the wi-fi should be stronger back there! Eventually we’ll both get new office furniture, her desk we acquired used when the kids were little, and John's desk was a flat-pack from Builder’s Emporium in 1986.
Car stuff. Ondine took her Prius in to John’s Automotive for scheduled maintenance, and it ended up being two days of work what with bushings and control arms and an alignment and what-not. It was a good thing that we have Leo’s Prius C around as a temporary extra vehicle. It’s a solid little car!
Books. Ondine is about half-way though House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. John is in the last third of the fourth and final Rabbit Angstrom novel, Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike. He’s also still reading – and writing – short ghost stories.
Neighborhood gas prices range from $5.69 to $5.99 per gallon of regular unleaded.
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