Into The Future

 April Fools has been happening about every three days around here.  Just when you think spring has sprung, it rains again.  A cold wet damp rain that even has my heaters turning on.  

That means this kid and I have been lounging on the couch trying to stay warm.  

Oh there is the occasional ball game, which is pretty hard to accomplish with a flat ball.  That's a big hole in the middle, making it roll wonky.  Nevertheless, he's not going to play with ANY of the other seven balls laying around in close proximity.

My plan was for a quick trip to Target (better known as TARJAAA) around here.  I ordered a hand held vacuum from Amazon.  Always ALWAYS save the box.  It worked great, so I went to all the trouble of drilling holes and hanging it on the wall.  I plugged it in.  Next time I went to use it, the battery was dead.

And the next time ... and the next time.  It can't be returned, so I was out to buy another one ... one where I would KEEP the box.  $50 later, I plugged in the new one.  It didn't work.  Okay, something is wrong here.    It's the outlet that's not working.  I flipped every breaker in the box and NOTHING.  

I moved them both to the kitchen outlet and VOILA .... a nice little red light.  They BOTH work just fine.  So now I have TWO.  I hate it when I do that.  I suppose the one with a BOX will be returned today.

Finally tired of all the crazy coughing ... which had subsided just a bit after that Benadryl ... I called the Doctor.  Well not a doctor, since none seem to exist around here.  I got the Nurse Practitioner.  I mean really, even a Physician's Assistant sounds more impressive.  No offense to Nurses everywhere.

They could not see me, but they could shove me right into the future with a teleconference.  I suppose that's not much different than talking to them in their office.  I had to take all my own vitals and report to HER assistant before she called me.  Seems it's rather hard to diagnose when you can't hear me breathing, but diagnose me she did.

It's allergies.  NO WAY!!!  Yes way ... that's what she said.  She prescribed two pills I've never heard of before, which I will pick up today.  OR she said, I could go in for shots.  No thank you ... I'll take a few pills first.  That will be $185.00 billed to Medicare.  Not really, but I bet it will be close, or maybe even MORE.

Not coughing quite as much, I made one of Jonathan's favorites ... pineapple banana bread.  Only I didn't have any bananas, so I switched that out for zucchini.  He was not impressed and dropped it on the floor.  I now have four loaves to eat.  Honestly, I wasn't very impressed either.

The evening was filled with troublesome events.  My neighbor called to say she had a fox who looked pretty sick in her front yard.  It seemed to be panting and didn't even move when they went out to look.  I told her to call the trappers.  She has a puppy dog that should not be exposed.  

Thinking he was probably too sick to jump in my back yard, I let Cooper out, but kept a close eye on him. Then she sends me a text of the fox jumping up on top of their fence.  YIKES!!  Weird he's not the least bit scared or even wary of them.  I set my camera up to see if he comes around here.

Ten minutes later she sends ANOTHER message showing some kid running up to the door and ringing her doorbell.  Not so bright that kid ... it's a RING doorbell and she got a GREAT picture of him, which will be turned over to the Sheriff.  Just a fun night in Farmville!!