Hello September! We have a beautiful morning opening up this brand new month. I give praise to the Creator for that. I’m sitting here at the kitchen table enjoying another one of God’s blessings; — the last three of the peaches we were given. I’m sharing them with Ms. Kate. She has dared to eat a half of one of them. I say dared because she’s not sure that it won’t bother her stomach. Hopefully it will be fine. 

Do you have any September plans? Ms. Kate and I certainly do. We are heading out to Texas hill-country for a week.. It is a beautiful area of the country that we have visited before. Heather and John are joining us and Steph and Chris and Caden might come down for a couple of night. Heather has signed her and me up for a cute venture. There is a winery there that has tours and they also have “pet rhinos”. They offer people to a chance to actually go in the rhino area and pet and scratch the rhino. They say the rhinos love being ribbed and scratched. So — that will be a new adventure. I have been to a place here in southern Indiana where we could help bathe elephants and loved doing that. I have also ridden camels while I was in Turkey. Now I can add rhino petting to my weird list of fun things I have done. My girls are all adventurous. Back in 1996 Heather and I climbed Mt. Vesuvius the volcano in Italy. That was a long and tiring adventure. What was funny was that before you started the long walk up, there was a man renting “walking sticks” for people to use. You can bet we each got one. But there is nothing like standing on the edge of an active volcano and looking over the edge, especially knowing that this is the same volcano that buried the city of Pompeii  so very many centuries ago, and knowing that it is still active. We could see and small the sulfur smoke rising up out of the bottom. But —— on the other hand, millions of people go to Yellowstone National park every year and that whole area is actually one huge volcano that could erupt at any time. Scientists say that if it does, it will wipe out a major portion of North America between the eruption, the lava, and the ash that will fall across the nation. 

So, we had a problem come up yesterday. Kate was working at the kitchen counter and she tells me that she can’t get the bottom kitchen drawer to open nor can she get the one above it to close. I figured it was a matter of having too much “un-needed” stuff in it. I managed to get the bottom drawer out but I could not get the next drawer to close. It seemed to be going off track at the rear. I pulled it out and found that there was a broken piece at the end of the drawer track. While the track is made of medal, there is a plastic piece that slides into it that attaches it to the wall. That’s the piece that was broken. So, I started researching it on Google, found nothing, then I call a local kitchen cabinet store and asked if they had parts. Well — not only do they not carry parts, the part I need hasn’t been made for years, nor has that style of drawer track been used for decades. But —- I may have a solution; I manufactured a piece that will fit out of wood. Now, I have to wait for Jim to come and see if he can reach back in there and install it. If he can, and if it works, that’s a really great thing. If it doesn’t work, then I may have to have some major cabinet work done. I do not want to do that. 

That’s it for this first day of September. This afternoon I have to take my car in for its 55000 mile servicing. You have a great Friday and a great Labor Day weekend. Peace.