Misc.

The Blog is broken LOL

I have been going buts trying to figure out why o why the  blog is broken, photos don’t show even when they are on the server. new uploads don’t show either  AUGH!!!

Last resort is to just reinstall wordpress and hope the database backup works 🙁  I thought with all the crazy social network problems  blogging might be fun again?

If you type a post and nobody reads it  did you really write it?

 

Busy Past months

I know, always the excuse as to why no blog updates. So much has happened that i could write pages and pages. Relax, I am not going to write pages LOL.

Highlights:

  • Some one was murdered in our complex
  • our neighbor purposely ran into our station wagon twice and totaled it and the shed wall.
  • A unit across from us  was shot up lots of holes
  • the next night another unit one building down was shot up – lots more holes
  • My father pulled my moms car out of the trust and gave it to me (we pay back the trust upon his death)
  • we were not so politely told that we needed to leave by people occupying the slum lords units (10-15 people in each unit)
  • we gather every dime we had available without pulling from retirement
  • a mobile home was coming up for sale in a 55+ complex that is owned by the association (no changeling to a family park)
  • we but our valuables into storage
  • Catfish dog’s cancer came back and we kept him comfortable until . .. we are going to sped his ashes. I really miss my little guy.
  • our offer on mobile home was accepted,
  • the next day we accepted an offer on the condo from a broker we had been talking with.
  • mobile home escrow closed
  • we had our friends son in law paint, build a fence, instal gates and misc touch ups
  • friends and all camp at the condo with shotgun so does not get broken into
  • we hired a security guard to watch the place after we moved the last of our things out two days before it closed.
  • Annie is adjusting to the move they are still a bit nervous

The mobile home has a ramp, covered parking  for three on one side and one on the other. Our back looks out on a big grassy area and one side along the has grassy area also It has a fully walled in porch with two sliding doors.  Not counting the porch it is around 499 sq feet smaller than or townhouse/condo so we are going nuts trying to find places for things. We donated lots of stuff the the goodwill and to the library here.

Billy came from Nevada with the boys (they are men now) and hauled a lot of stuff to the dump, e waste, and cans of paint etc. Brandon came back twice and  helped us with the packing :).  Our friends son in law, his cousin, my niece and her husband moved our furniture and remaining boxes. We packed up everything in banker boxes and moved them to the mobile home in the pick up late at night early mornign when the bad folks were crashed out and done for the night.

Some snaps

before paint dinning area

Before

aafter paint dinning area

after

vanity Master bedroom before paint

before

vanith after paint lights etc

after master bedroom vanity

living room

Living room

bedroom

let side master bedroom

ramp

ramp repairs

living room

living room behind couch

Ok that is all for now 🙂

Where Were You?

pin 9-11 remberance

Most of us remember the Alan Jackson song – hence the title.

Where were you?  I was driving down the freeway  almost to work when the first reports of an  airplane hitting the World Trade Center hit the local radio. By the time I arrived at work it was clear that yes the unbelievable – a commercial plane had crashed into one of the towers.  Then the second plane hit.

I was now opening the garage of the second tallest building in Sacramento.  One of the tenants was Trade and Commerce.  To make a very long story short the Parking Facility Manager, the Janitorial shift lead person, and a couple security guards were the only people remaining in the building.  I sure hope they have better plans in place now because back then the plan sucked.  If you were high enough up the food chain you either arrived and argued with us explaining how important you were trying to bully your way into locked down building without proper ID or you stayed away afraid the aircraft that were reported missing and headed to Calif  were going to hit the building.

I remember watching the Towers fall on a TV we borrowed from the Pawn shop next door.  Over and Over again.  As my pal the janitor awaited news about his cousins that worked in the buildings hoping that they somehow survived.

Today in remembrance:

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