Papa’s Got A New Pair Of Shoes

They are Timberland Pro Titan Oxford 40045 and look a lot like these, but are lighter in color, more tan than brown. Mama got some new shoes too. Donna spends quite a bit of time on the shop floor, so she wears steel toed shoes as well. She will be styling and profiling in a pair of Lehigh High Heel Slip-on #483.

We drove all the way to Columbia to the shoe store to get a good selection, boy do we lead an exciting life.

Started up, still up.
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Booklovers

That is the name on the store where I get my usual reading matter, they have thousands of books on the shelves from new hardcovers to used paperbacks. I buy used paperbacks at roughly 1/4 the cost of the sicker price (half off because they are used and then half off of that because I have traded in tons of old books there.)

It is getting harder and harder to find something to read there though. I normally read mystery/action/thriller type books and lately the jacket blurbs are all starting to sound alike — “Katherine Tomillia, a beautiful and brilliant lawyer with a troubled past is being stalked by a perverted serial killer and her only hope of bringing him to justice is to be re-teamed with her ex-husband, a gritty streetwise former police officer turned private eye, Drake Wingo. Follow Drake and Katherine into the high stakes world of high finance, global politics and quilt making…”

I did manage to find 4 possibles, including Mesmerized. “After a heart transplant saves brilliant Washington attorney Beth Convey, she inexplicably aquires new tastes and abilities, and finds herself having strange dreams — or are they memories?”

Started down, went up, still up.
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Astray

“Lost” starts in about 20 minutes and I’m going to try and watch it. I’m afraid though that I’m not going to like it, that I really should wait for the DVDs. I think the commercials are going to give me time ponder and…

…Donna said it best last week after she did what I did, went back and read the synopsis of the first 12 episodes of season two, “Reading these makes me wonder why we are even watching this crap.”

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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Harbinger Of Spring

For the first time in a week and a half the top on the Miata went down. Today it was in the low 60s, tomorrow the upper 60s and Thursday & Friday will be mid 70s. There was a hint of pine pollen, like yellow fingerprint powder, outlining where our greasy hands were when closing the trunk the past couple of times…

Started up, went down, still down.
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