Monday Meanderings - 05.20.2013

He said: (to the squirrel standing stock-still, upright in the middle of the road as our car approached) "Move, dummy! Get out of the road! Didn't your mother ever teach you anything!"
She said: "No. She probably got run over before she had a chance."

I'm playing another kind of chicken with the squirrels as well. Waiting to see just how long I dare leave a ripening tomato on the vine. Hoping to harvest it before the squirrels (and birds) do. Our two bushes are heavy with wonderful-looking tomatoes; I've plucked a few already and they are ripening nicely as we speak, just waiting for a good sandwich to hop into.

Our insurance company sent us a whiz-bangy new blood pressure monitor as part of a pilot program. Among other things, this monitor "talks" to you - a female voice first tells you how to use it and then it tells you the results of the test. I tried it out, and the voice said, "In a quarter-mile, turn right." Recalculating.

Yesterday was Senior Sunday at church, honoring our graduating high-schoolers, when we acknowledge that our kids are all above average.  You know how it goes; as each Senior is called up, someone reads his or her accomplishments, they play a recorded message about "What Westover means to me." The kids hug the Huddle leaders, get their Bible, graciously acknowledge the kudos, and then sit down. Except there's always one kid. You know the one I'm talking about - the kid that's sharp, good-looking, accomplished - and the class clown. He's the one who shows up in a fluorescent orange suit, with shoes and tie to match! Where do you even get a fluorescent orange suit? For all I know, he made it himself.

Did you know that when the Texas Rangers score 7 or more runs in a game, you get 50% off your pizza order from Pappa John's the next day? The Rangers have been hitting very well lately. That's a mixed blessing, waist-line wise.

Enjoy your week.