A few home things

I'm going to try to put on several pictures and a couple of blogs this morning. There's just so much to say and see here that I want to share.



First of all I have a couple of things that are just from home. The other day we were walking in light jackets from the post office on base to our car on the other side of "Midtown", a walk equivalent to a football field or a little more. When we got about a third of the way it started to sprinkle. Expecting rain, we had brought our umbrella and so got it out and huddled under it as the sprinkle began to develop into rain. Going a little farther we noticed the rain was getting rather heavy with larger drops. About twenty yards from the car it was really pelting down and something was added to it. We began to run and when we got in the car I looked at my sleeve and it was covered with pellets--not of hail but actually snow pellets. (And here I thought we lived in the tropics.) I took a photo but you can hardly tell on the windshield--I should have taken a photo of my arm. A few days later we had a hail storm. It woke us up about 11:30 hailing very hard and was still on the ground, sometimes in two to four inch drifts, as we went into work the next morning. Funny thing is, though, other than during those times, we still are comfortable in long sleeves or sweaters. Seldom need even a jacket during the day.





I think I mentioned a long time ago the beautiful table top we got on a trip north. Well, we finally have the finished product. A local artisan has made the support for the table and has just finished chairs to match. It's all handcrafted heavy iron. Notice the tulips he added to the center of the table bottom and to the backs of the chairs that match the design on the table top. We are really happy with it. I think this is our one big money item we will take away from Italy.










And, finally, we have conceded that this dog is probably ours and have given him the name of Bullet. It seems to fit because he "shoots" out of his crate in the morning, shoots around the house to the front whenever he hears the door open, and puts holes in everything he's near.

And for those of us who are REALLY old, he even looks kind of like Roy Rogers' dog.


Actually he's very intelligent and once he got the idea that I wanted to take his picture he seemed to be posing for me. I took several but this is his best pose.