Broadcasting great Tom Snyder, Coaching legend Bill Walsh and Film great Ingmar Bergman have all died.

Got the car worked on yesterday. Tried two weeks ago to get the stuff done, but every place seemed very busy. But things worked in our favor yesterday and we got the stuff taken care of. Will get a tune up sometime in fall.

Rain has eluded us this week, several times. When it has rained, it has been for only a few minutes and that's it. We really need a nice gentle rain to clear out some of the nasty air and water everything. Hopefully Mother Nature will look kindly upon us and give us a bit of rain.

Short work week for Mom. Her birthday is Saturday and she has requested Friday off, so she'll only have four long work days this week.

Kiska is now two years old. I can only hope as she gets older she calms down, but I doubt it will happen.

Slept with the dental guard in and it wasn't too bad. Guess I will get used to it.

Was going to go to a movie last week, but just really didn't feel like wasting money on something I wasn't to interested in to begin with. When Mom's birthday comes around we do plan on seeing a couple movies that weekend.

Tammy Faye Bakker died over the weekend. I don't have anything against her, not saying she was Innocent in the whole PTL scandal but regardless its sad she died of cancer.

Not sure I mentioned that Lady Bird Johnson passed away recently.

Got my teeth cleaned and a routine dental exam. Found that three teeth show signs of me grinding my teeth. After the appointment, went to lunch and then did some shopping. One of the things purchased was a dental guard to wear during sleeping hours. I don't know how or if it will work but will give it a try.

Have a dentist appointment on Saturday. Don't know if we are going to do anything after our appointments.

Have a couple things to do today and then will have the rest of the afternoon off.

I know I have been dreaming, and the dreams have been strange, but once I wake up I cant remember anything. Had a dream this morning that involved me being at the grocery store and being anxious over the total of the groceries.

Sergei's ears are looking better so we are now just giving him some allergy medication and doing a volume ear flush once a week.

Managed to get a few things done today. Need to get in gear and do more things every morning.

Started getting the first quilting lesson materials put together. I am not sure how good I will be at this, but I couldn't be any worse then I am at other things.

Lady Bird Johnson has died. For some reason I thought she had died a couple years ago.

The heat of summer has arrived. It hasn't been too bad so far, but since July is a tough summer month, who knows what Mother Nature has in store for us.

Have some cleaning to do before I get out and mow the backyard, will have to get out and mow the front yard next week some time, probably Monday.

Don't know whats causing it, but I have been having trouble sleeping lately. I hope its just a phase and it'll pass.

Well it started out looking like it would be a hot fourth and then a storm came up this afternoon and dumped three quarters of an inch of rain on us. It did cool things off a bit and it will make shooting off fireworks a little nicer.

Wanted to mow in the backyard this afternoon, this was before the storm, but couldn't get the mower started.

Mom will have some time off, sort of a mini vacation. We have some things planned, but I don't know how much we will actually get done.