Saving log - $4 tip box
Spending log - $1.75 coffee + $10 lunch
Arrgh with the Seattle February weather in early June. I woke up cranky. Its one thing to see the overcast, dreary, very rainy February weather in February - its an endurance thing. When the rain comes in June, it just makes you mad.
Day 2 that the deli has been closed. It doesn't look good. I peered into the window - the equipment was still there, along with the table and chair that they set outside for dining al fresco. No one's packed up. Still's a bad sign.
Got caught up with sister. She had left her job three weeks ago to relax and keep up with the farmette. Her projects are the water heater, the water softener, and the furnace. Especially replacing the furnace, both to keep the winter heating bills and the insurance costs down.
Had lunch with the gang - lawyer friend, lawyer friend's partner, screenwriter friend, and we got to asking about compounds. Like the Kennedy compound, the McCain compound, the Bush compound, the Koresh compound. Doesn't anyone have an estate or a house any more? Are we all survivalists or something? We tried figuring out the elements: multiple buildings, a chain link fence, ability to live off the grid, perhaps a gun collection. The other three joked that my little farmette was the closest thing to a compound, to which I noted that the barn, in the shape of a "U" surrounds a concrete pad. I would have a compound inside my compound... a nested compound.
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The U place sounds like a REAL patio to me. Even my Mexican friends who lives in high rise apartments with not even a balcony are confused when I refer to the pavement behind my house as a patio.
I'm guessing people who live in or retreat to compounds do not use that word themselves. They probably say, "the summer place," "the Cape house," "the farm," "Tara"....
When I had family in town and they all lived on the same city block, I enjoyed saying that I was heading over to "the Smith Compound."
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