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Father's Day with Helen's family
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Friday, June 22, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Adam's School Open House
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Open house for the new Paul Duke STEM High School Adam will be attending in the fall
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| The boys ran into Ms Wheeler their former middle school French teacher |
Monday, June 18, 2018
Bye Bye Leaf
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I totaled the Leaf last week
I ran out to get some milk just before 9 pm and decided to fill up the lawn mower gas tank while I was out. I had picked up the milk and was making a left to the gas station about 50 yards up the hill across several lanes of traffic. I waited for a car in the turn lane to make a left in front of me and pull into the shopping center I was leaving. I started to pull out and only saw the car I hit coming from my left at the last second. I put on my brakes and turned the wheel hard to the left but still hit the car broadside with a strong glancing blow from my right front.
I had no idea where the car came from. I had a complete view of the 3 lanes and turn lane to my left. It wasn't until I heard the other driver saying he had pulled out of the same gas station I was going to that I realized what had happened. Everyone seems to come out of the gas station on a fast downhill diagonal line that puts them at the shopping center exit very quickly. While I had full visibility of oncoming traffic from my left, I never saw the car leaving the gas station on the diagonal from up the hill across 6 lanes of traffic and, with the car turning in front of me into the shopping center, neither one of us saw each other until it was too late. Also, it was just turning dark, but not so dark that everyone had their lights on and we both had charcoal gray cars.
There were 3 college kids in the car I hit and I'm just thankful nobody was hurt. I had dropped collision coverage on our cars when we had older cars and decided not to get it when we bought newer cars since we've never been at fault in an accident and we've never even had at ticket. I figured the worst that could happen is a fender bender from one of the boys. It was a solid plan...until it wasn't.
I finally did manage to navigate successfully to the gas station for the lawn mower gas and, I have to say, the $10,000 tank of gas didn't perform any better than the usual $5 tank. |
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Helen Is 50
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The boys joined us for Helen's birthday dinner at Mojitos
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| When we got home Derek quickly left to see Madison and Adam went upstairs to get ready for his trip, which left just me to sing Happy Birthday to Helen |
Monday, June 11, 2018
Adam's In Europe
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Final parent meeting for Adam's school trip to Europe
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| Packing up the night before departure |
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| Adam signed up for the trip last summer and now the day is finally here |
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| Saying goodbye to Lulu |
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Adam driving down to the airport
Somewhere well along the way, Adam mentioned he couldn't see as well as he thought he should. It wasn't until we got back home that we figured out he grabbed contacts from an old box that for some reason he kept right next to his new prescription boxes. So he headed off to Europe with contacts from two prescription changes ago.
Today we shipped his new contacts to meet him at his hotel in Barcelona in a couple days.
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| Laying over in Philadelphia before flying overnight to Paris |
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| Some pictures Adam sent from Paris |
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