Andrew's View of the Week

Friday Wisdom – Cars

Posted on 07/24/2020 by Andrew Reynolds

We moved 250 miles away, but I still have things that need to be done at our old house so the last couple of weeks I’ve doing a lot of driving. Which naturally has given me lots of time to thing about cars.

If you got hit by a guitar truck, would it be a Fender bender?

What car did Yoda buy? A Toyoda

What do you say to the frog you’re going to give a ride to? Hop in.

I saw my neighbor washing his car with his son. I went over and suggested he use a sponge instead.

Did you hear about the frog who parked in a red zone? Yeah, his car was toad.

Law of the freeway: The person in front of you wants to drive five miles an hours slower than you and the person behind you wants to drive five miles an hour faster than you.

Law of driver observations: The guy going slower than you is an idiot while the guy going faster than you is maniac.

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Office Progress and a Tower of Kitties

Posted on 07/21/2020 by Andrew Reynolds

We’re making slow progress here on setting up the house. We’re currently working on “our rooms.” The house is big and both Heather and I wanted a lot of room for our creative work, so each of us took a bedroom. I’ve been setting up furniture in both rooms and have made some progress in my room:

The progress in the office. I have a desk, computer and chair. Now, if I can just find the bookshelves, I could unpack my books.

The biggest problem at the moment is that most of our boxes are in big pile in the garage, which makes finding things a challenge.

We did find another kitty tower and put it into the laundry room where the kitties have a nice big window to look out of. It’s a difficult transition for them as we can’t let them go outside here – too many coyotes and other predators that would like them for a snack – so we’re doing our best to give them nice places to be in the house.

Cat tower in the laundry room. Socks took the top bunk and Boots the lower for their morning nap.

Spotty kitty has decided that a place on the floor is better.

Spotty prefers her bed on the floor next to our bed.

I don’t know when I’ll get back to regular posts or all the new stuff I’m thinking of doing. Given that I’m now officially retired, I’m taking it slow to adjust and get things just right.

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Friday Wisdom – Painting

Posted on 07/17/2020 by Andrew Reynolds

You know you’re Baroque when you’re out of Monet …

What does a painter do when he gets cold? Puts on another coat.

Why don’t painters wear sweaters? Because they already have two coats.

How much gas did the painter put in his van? Just enough to make the Van Gogh.

A painter I know has his work in a local gallery. He did the baseboards and the trim on the doorways.

Today we’re actually painting two rooms because we didn’t like the color and why not add three days work to our work schedule?
Here’s the color in my new office:

Still have to do the trim and then I can move the bookcases into place.

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Moving Madness

Posted on 07/14/2020 by Andrew Reynolds

Moving is crazy. We have a lot of stuff after living in the same home for 20 years.

We also failed the moving estimate test. We ordered two moving PODs when we should have ordered four and things have been weird ever since we failed math.

Be kind, I have a degree in English and no where in Paradise Lost did Milton cover how many wagons it takes to move house.

We’ve been in our new home for about ten days and the second POD was unloaded today. Another arrives on Friday.

The cats were stressed out about the move and have only just started to come out of hiding. Now that more of our stuff is here, they are calming down. We also bought them some new toys and a couple of new cat towers. Here’s pictures of them in our new living room.

Spotty Kitty in her new tower

Socks and his new window seat

Boots still likes her blanket

That last picture shows the entryway. The hall to the left leads to the bedrooms and to the right is the art studio and kitchen. It’s been so busy that I haven’t had the time to do the pictures I wanted, but things are slowing down a bit so hopefully you’ll be hearing more from me in the next week.