Hello again. I find myself going to the drawer my pots and pans call home. I slide it open, eye cocked, anticipating my frying pan has taken up residence once again. The thinking goes like this -- since obviously the pan sprouted feet and paddled off, maybe it will paddle back again. No one knows what happened to it. Hmmm.

Checked out Spongebob Squarepants and found out that he does have stick legs. Also found out his name is two words instead of four. At any rate, I am a pure square lately, from neck to knees.

What do you do when your neighbor, whose house is practically in your backyard, starts and continues playing his radio VERY VERY LOUDLY. For crying out loud, don't people know KEM is still sleeping at high noon? This has happened several times now and also on Sunday afternoons, when it's nap time. It's so loud that my house pulses with it. Sleeping in out of the question. WAAAAH! The police have been there, too, for domestic disturbance, I do believe. Guess we'll have to sell the house.

When CDW and MAW came to Montreat to spend the night, I was a loser and didn't make a real dinner. I just threw out everything in sight, smorgasbord style. The table was full of stuff like cantaloupe, cottage cheese, cold fried chicken, frozen pizza, different kinds of potato chips, carrots, deli ham, and I don't remember what all, it was fresh, frozen, leftover, used, you name it. Oh yeah, bar-b-q sauce. Everything got dipped in it, it covered a multitude of sins. I heard comments like, I didn't know bar-b-q sauce was good on _________.

I said, I'm sorry, this is not a nice meal. CDW said, It's a fun meal, I love it. I'm so embarrassed. CDW was a hoot, 'cause the next morning she told me she woke up in the night in a cold sweat, 'cause I had asked her at dinner to pour potato chips in a dish and she got 2 teensy dishes and then she realized I meant a bigger dish, for everyone, not a personal CDW chip bowl, and a personal MAW bowl. I thought it was hysterical. Who could have sorted anything out in that hodgepodge anyhow? You have to realize, CDW is the ultimate hostess. I can't believe she is still friends with me after this dinner.

Later we went to the Huckleberry for ice cream and CDW and MAW got cups and I got a cone. Later I learned that you always ask for a cup because you get more ice cream that way. We sat on the deck and stared at the water from Lake Susan spilling over the dam. The swans had hunkered down for the night. Lights glittered from the old stone inn on the mountain. It's as good as it gets on earth, the pristine mountain air, ice cream and best friends. And plenty of friendly trees.

I am very meek and mild tonight. It's raining gloriously every day, Thank you, Lord. This afternoon there was a thunder clap as loud as I've ever heard, it scared the wits out of me. It was like IN the house. Jazzi, of course, was crouching between the toilet and the tub. Anyway, it got me to thinking that when God does finally judge the world and it all goes up in flames, we are not going to want to be here. He's promised terror such as the earth has never known. And the earth has known some terror. I just think we should all prepare ourselves before this commences.

My friend tells me The Dollar Store, where I get my ZWIPES, and doggie poop bags, is on the Endangered Species List. What next?

Nice talkin' to ya!
KEM