Manda, :angry:, this is getting hard to take, just hearing about it. I can imagine what it's putting you through. There is no excuse for those in charge to allow this to continue! His sister may have good intentions but she can't control him. I don't think Gena should have to visit him at all but if she does, at the very least, the visits should be supervised by an impartial person who can/will put a stop to the visit if your ex even hints of heading in an inappropriate direction. Grrrrrrr.
Kat, another big :angry: if our regular mail processing machines are being taken away to accommodate mail-in voting. Just the other day a form for a ballot request for early voting came in the mail for my husband, who has been deceased for nearly two years. I won't get into the politics of mail-in voting. This is for early voting, which has been around for a while anyway. But it was a reminder to me of the need for me to notify the people in charge, of his death, and I know there are people who won't do that. It hadn't occurred to me to do it until I started working as an election clerk last year, then it slipped my mind and now I need to take care of it.
Avey, I'm glad you reported in. I was thinking about you the other day and wondering if you were sticking to the pool. Good to hear you didn't get into any trouble!
Robin, that picture of Vinnie is precious! Makes me think of Pippy Longstocking.
Squirrel, I'm glad you didn't have a real fire. Hope they got whatever it was fixed.
IamRed, stay clear of the flooding, if you can!
I made it to the drug store and stopped at the small grocery store (this is in the smaller town) for a few things I didn't get at United yesterday. At all the regular grocery stores here they have a sacker person at the counter with the checker person. The sacker person also carries your groceries out and puts them into your car. (One more reason why I love Texas)! The checker and the sacker were both wearing masks and wearing them properly. So far, so good. But then the sacker guy was having trouble opening one of the plastic bags so he raised up his mask and licked him fingers to give him traction with the plastic bag! Ugh! Some people can follow specific rules but they are unable to apply the principle to any possible problems that arise. When I got home, before even unloading my groceries from the car, I came inside and put on disposable gloves, then I brought the bags in and gave everything an extra wipe down with alcohol and threw the bags in the trash. I am sympathetic to how challenging it can be to open new plastic bags sometimes but with the Covid virus atmosphere of today, licking the fingers and then handling the bags and the grocery items is not a good idea. I'm going to look and see if they have a suggestion box in that store and suggest they put wet sponges at the checkout counter to help the employees deal with this issue.
. Never wear light gray when you will be spending time outside during a super humid day is the best advice I can give.
