The Namer clan is gathering for my nephew, Michael’s wedding this Saturday in Atlanta – and also to celebrate the 3rd birthday of Rylee – one of my great nieces. Always a fun time at the Namer Party – we even had tee shirts made one year that said Ain’t No Party Like a Namer Party – loads of dancing and laughing – just an old sweet song……
The peripheral plants are starting to go in around the house – the Queen palms down the right side, the boxwoods softening the edges of the brick, the dwarf monkey grass in the middle of the driveway strip, the tea olives by the front porch. The rest goes in Monday – hopefully – weather providing. My roses can’t go in till January due to the heat.
Last night we went to Hip Stix – finally got the name right – to have dinner – the pad thai and dragon salad is delicious, and the guava cosmopolitans can’t be beat. Then we came back for a nightcap to La Vita. I was speaking to I, one of the new young Turkish girls who has moved here, when this woman came in and G began speaking to her. She said she moved to…
Bud – who also looked at the door today and the astrogal issue – writes me to tell me what was the mix of stain he used on the front door and then adds this: “Don’t be impatient, otherwise everytime you go through that door you will see your impatience.”
Okay, I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to remodel and add on to and finish this house on the bayou. It is a unique, fabulous house and I’m happy to have done it all in the end. But I have been through some really shady contractors, workers, carpenters, and so when one stands out I have to sing his praises. Marty Fears – 419.2360 – has done a fabulous job – his guys…
$200 spent on the astragal for the front door – fixed I thought – and I did it mostly myself – wrong. Now the door needs to be taken off and a new astragal made that actually goes to the bottom, so the fins will have to be cut back, and the door cut shorter, and a threshold installed. Beat my head with bricks.
excerpted from the NYT this morning: An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group “trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment†to avoid “making waves.†Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential “will expand exponentially over an employee’s working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.†Justices John Paul Stevens,…
M told me as Jake and I were pulling out that he had not had a nap and he had been difficult after being home from school all day. I said are you kidding? I have dealt with adults all day that make me want to pull my hair out – Jake is a dreamboat. Cute, funny, and sings Avril Lavigne’s GIRLFRIEND at full blast with me in the car, loves the color red because…
The other day I took Jake for a bike ride and to get snowballs on Plum Street. He got Rainbow (a mix of flavors) but quickly usurped my sugar free Spearmint. But we hung out on the bench and I marvelled at how unselfconscious he is and how he will speak to just about anybody and everybody! So while I was cleaning up the mess, he started talking to this woman with short blonde hair.…