Things that are un-fun - Sitting in an emergency room on a Sunday afternoon. Michael had an allergic reaction to something that went from itching like he'd been given morphine to difficulty breathing. No one has any idea what might have caused it, but it took two shots and about an hour before he was stable enough to come home. We're concerned that it might be his blood pressure medication, but since he's been taking it for a month and a half with no problems, the doctor doesn't think that it's the culprit. The only other thing was the fresh spinach salad I fixed for supper Saturday night, and it's doubtful that it would have taken that long to cause that much reaction. At any rate, I'm tired today. Welcome to Monday.
Like a bad penny.... We used to scuba dive as our hobby, a hobby which eventually led to the procurement/construction of a small dive trailer to haul four sets of gear and four cylinders. It was a simple but elegant design - a box on a single axle frame, with the beginnings of a mural painted on both sides, and dive flags at either end. The kids had helped paint it, with Stephen taking special pains with the sharks. When we moved to Nashville, we sold it. We didn't dive as often, and we had no place to store it. Nearly ten years have passed since that October in '99 when we came up here, and I hadn't thought much about the trailer. I thought I had seen it the last time we went to Greenfield, but I wasn't sure. Then Saturday my mother-in-law called to say the neighbor across the street had our trailer for sale. The neighbor was asking a certain price, and we offered a little less. She called back later to say it was ours for the picking up. Sunday we made the trip to fet...
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