Dr Copa

Do you remember back when our generation was in high school and college, how so many of us dreamed about traveling to Europe, or one of the British Isles? Others of us dreamed about starting our own communes out in the country. I often wonder how many of us actually accomplished any of that?

Jenny was telling us that she has been offered a job transfer with the company that she works for to go live in Scotland for a few years. The transfer might even be a permanent one if she likes it over there and does a good job. She is so excited about having the chance to go over to Scotland to live because that is where her mother’s family originated from, and she is hoping to find some long lost relatives over there. She has to give her answer to the promotion offer tomorrow, and already she has gone online to look for places to stay.

She’s been told that she can transfer either to Glascow or Edinburgh, so she is also spending a lot of time researching the two different cities, trying to figure out which place would suit her better. Naturally she is also searching the ads for flats for rent in Glasgow and flats for rent in Edinburgh to see which place have the most desirable flats to rent. In addition to close proximity to where she will be working she will want the best amenities she can find.

Sounds like a dream come true!

Ever since my car accident, cold and wet weather has made me miserable. So, since it has been raining and snowing all day long today, it was a good day to sleep in my recliner chair beside the fireplace and nap off and on while enjoying our newly installed satellite television service. Everyone I know has been telling me that when there is bad weather we will suffer from bad television reception, but so far that hasn’t happened yet.

One of my dreams about a perfect lawn and garden is to install a an underground automatic system of lawn sprinklers that you can program to rise up out of the ground at dusk every night for twenty minutes and then drop back undetected into the lawn when finished. My in-laws have a system like that in their yard and I have to admit that I am very envious of that luxury!

When I first got together with my wife, she had several flower garden patches around her house, and her irrigation supplies consisted of some of those drip irrigation system hoses winding through the beds that she would manually turn on and off when she felt that the gardens needed to be watered.

Before I met my wife my own favorite method of watering consisted of portable lawn sprinkler that I would move around from one area of the lawn to another, and when I first met my wife I thought that my wife’s system was over-kill, but after we got married and she started to ask me to pitch in and help around the house I realized that her system was really quite smart after all!

We have become such a transient people these days. People seem to come and go at such a fast rate that it makes it hard to establish a relationship with folks and keep it once they pack up and leave for any of the numerous reasons that people do leave. I understand that LA movers are doing a wonderful business since people are constantly heading out west with no end in sight of that concept coming to an end any time soon.

I have a buddy who made that cross country trip a few years ago and is know working for a very busy Los Angeles moving company and couldn’t be happier working as one of the many Los Angeles movers that help people with re locating their belongings anywhere that they are willing to pay for.

It’s funny that he ended up working for a moving company, since he was always the type of guy that when called on to help with a move always had an excuse to keep him away from such a task. It actually become a running joke around the circle of friends and family that were so knit tight back in those days and now the joke continues with the news of his new employment.  LOL

When Josh asked us to help him move from his old apartment to his new one, he invited us to go out to dinner with him. Moving him only took one trip with the pick-up truck, and he only moved about one mile from his old place to his new place, so that was a pretty easy move. A lot easier than our move from New England to down here five years ago!
After we got the truck unloaded at his new place and his furniture set into place he gave us a tour of the new place. He’s sharing a house with four other young adults. They each have their own bedroom and bathroom and they share the kitchen, dining room, and living room. The house was an older brick house, probably built around the end of World War II, and is an interesting eclectic mix of new and old.

One of the more interesting features of the house was one of the bathrooms. The toilet and bathtub were obviously quite old, but the lavatory was a vessel sink. I think that this was the first time I’ve ever seen vessel sinks in such an old building. It was very nice, and the vessel sink faucets were very stylish as well. I wondered if that particular bathroom was in the process of being updated and the sink was the first step.