A month goes by

Another month goes by and little changes…

That’s not true. A lot has happened in the last month and for the life of me I don’t know why it’s not written down. I finally got my car rack but that whole story is for another post.

I had mentioned in a previous post (the one I didn’t want to write: Waiting on Parts) that I had made some loose plans for the 4^th of July break. The break was short but skipping a day of “work” would have given me a 5 day weekend so I could go camping. Well those plans were depending on me getting my car back.

I didn’t get my car back until Friday the 6^th and I spent the whole day filling out paper work at the court house to sue the gal who hit me. Small claims, nothing major but it was money I shouldn’t have had to spend.

That Saturday I get a phone call from her claiming that she would have some of the money to me by the end of next week. Better than nothing and I needed some cash for the trip to New York I was about to take. The end of the week rolls around and she did get me $200.

That next weekend was my Mother’s 50^th birthday and she came to town to visit my sister and me. We think- we know she came to us to hide from her three younger siblings who were hoping she would come to the family home in Montana. Our family is full of jokesters and good natured fun in a variety of embarrassing ways. To bad she didn’t suspect her children to hire a stripper monkey.

My sister and I left for New York the morning after our Mother’s birthday. We met up with our dad in Seattle before heading to Newark. Our Father’s side of the family is a mystery to my sister and I. We met a lot of relatives for the first time on the trip and tried to recall the ones we had met the last time we were there over 18 years ago.

The New York trip had other exciting attractions as well. The Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and seeing a Yankees game in Yankee Stadium, which is being replaced next year.

I think that summed up the past month well.