14th June 2024 . In most regards Friday was a total flop, but on the way home from Glens Falls I got some pictures of a storm that seemed to be building all around us. It's not a route we travel that often these days but it is very pleasant. …
In most regards Friday was a total flop, but on the way home from Glens Falls I got some pictures of a storm that seemed to be building all around us.
It's not a route we travel that often these days but it is very pleasant.
So I'll use those pictures for today's illustrations.
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Over the weekend I went to the clinic's Patient Portal to cancel my upcoming "Post Op" appointment.
A reason was required so I typed:
"Pointless."
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It was no great surprise to receive a phone call this morning and I must say it was very prompt.
At precisely the moment I finished delivering my speech, I heard Grant exclaim: "There's a chipmunk in here!"
Which led to chasing about and persuading the cats that this was not some new toy,
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Unable to assist, being on the phone, I watched all this while on hold for someone else whose week was going to get off to a bad start.
Public speaking is something I have never been good at, especially when I am upset or annoyed, but I had gone through all the paperwork and got my thoughts in order and managed to convey them coherently.
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After a life in customer service, I know too well how it feels to deal with a justifiably irate person when it was someone else who messed up, so I was careful to emphasise that it was not my intention to take out my displeasure on the persons I spoke to.
By the time the conversation was finished, the chipmunk had caught sight of an open door and wisely fled through it.
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"Wow! It's mad in there!"
"I wos lucky to escape with my life!"
We are not sure if the poor creature misguidedly wandered in of its own accord, or whether one of our little treasures "escorted" it.
The so-called "supervised walks" get a bit out-of-hand.
Pointing out that there can be no control as long as two doors are left open falls on deaf ears, so I've given up ranting about it.
Yesterday, Willow came in one door and went straight back out another, coming face to face with a skunk. Luckily, both parties backed off.
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Coming home on Friday
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Blissfully unaware, at this point of the great disappointment!
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It seemed certain we would get rain.
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Summer looks nice, I'll admit.
Living in Asia, the heat didn't bother me once I'd adjusted.
But I was a child then.
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Coming through Greenwich we got behind a putt-putt so we took the alternate route.
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These days, when Hannaford's has filled a prescription, they call to let me know.
Playing back their voicemail the other day we were interested to hear:
"This is Hannaford's in Gren-itch..."
Not "Green witch!"
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One of my favourites views, no matter the season.
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A couple of hours after taking these photographs, I was talking to my friend Tim, in Brooklyn which is about 215 miles south of us.
He had to rush off to close windows because rain suddenly came down in torrents.
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After such a big build up, here we got not a drop.
But we did get quite a sunset...
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It was one of those that kept on getting better.
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Moments before, I had been more upset than in many years, but the sky drew me out.
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For the few minutes of this great spectacle, my troubles were forgotten.
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