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Surfs Up

Buckets of Rain.
High Winds out of the Northeast.
A Perfect Storm on Lake Maria.
Surfs Up.
Bring your boogie boards and bikinis. Check that! Maybe a wetsuit would be a better choice.

I checked my weather site of choice. I'm looking for days where the noon temperature is over 35 degrees. Bad news. All days that fit that parameter also have rain and high wind in the forecast. More bad news. Oddly, the forecasts for those days were correct. My bicycle is still parked.

We switched our internet/cable TV/phone provider to At&T. We are saving a significant amount of money for the same service. We are twenty-four hours into the switch, and I must say I'm not sorry yet. My reception is great, and their controller is pretty simple to operate. If anyone sees the deal and wants to switch to AT&T call me. We can both make a $100.

Because of the switch, we now have, what my son Brad calls, the Montana State Flower in our yard. Because of the trees in our yard, they located the dish next to the driveway out by the street. If I put the car up on blocks in the driveway, put a bathtub Virgin Mary in the yard, and allow a few chickens run around the property, I could, on a warm summers day, think I'm in Montana. Not that a car up on blocks, bathtub Virgins and chickens are a bad thing. It's a lifestyle, not an intelligence test. But I digress.

For the foreseeable future, I will be binge watching Frankie and Grace on Netflix. Fortunately for me, it's okay. While my wife is, and I'm sure she would agree, addicted to this story about two social opposites. These two older ladies, after long marriages, find out their husbands are gay and have been having an affair for years. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Play the two wives, who are forced to live together because of the economic circumstances of their divorces.

For flatland middle-class person like me, their circumstances are not all that bad. The beach house in Southern California isn't exactly a gulag. They have a contentious relationship with their ex-husbands, played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson. However, they also enjoy the understanding and presence of their respective children. They do get into, an "I Love Lucy" kind of way, contemporary family problems. It was released last Friday in typical Netflix fashion, all thirteen episodes at once. As I write, we have seen seven.

From Camp Jeff on the frothing shore of Lake Maria
This is Poppa Jeff, saying TaTa until the boat leaves the dock and fish fly out of the water. Or maybe when the bus finally stops, and I'm in your neighborhood



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