Welcome HOME BILL & RITA! Hope you're getting some extra sleep today! We kept the LIGHT ON ALL NIGHT here at the HUTCH! When does the car show up?
Nancy: Nice you have a little time to find all the warmer clothes you need for your Sept Alaskan Cruise. Do you do ONLINE SHOPPING at all? I'm sure you'd find stuff from your favorite store. I'm NOT a big shopper at all, yet alone ONLINE! 
Nice that the stones got delivered and off-loaded. So can you drive on the new cement and stones yet?
LEE: When we went to the movie theatre last week, both Art and I found the SOUND was unbelievably LOUD. Art had to take out his hearing aids. I took some tissue and stuffed it in my ears. Not sure why it has to be that loud, but if there is a next time I'll be bringing my ear plugs along. 
DAVE: I think you'll appreciate those 3 BIG TREES being GONE once FALL comes. I'd hate to think how much it cost him to have all that work done!
Our lawn man DOES take the clippings and leaves with him or at times he'll leave the BIG PLASTIC ROLL OUT on the side of the house and we just roll it to the curb. He only does that about 2 or 3 times at the most when the GRASS grows really fast because of rain or fertilizing. It's his BIG PLASTIC ROLL OUT, so he comes by and picks it up. Not a problem for us. I even buy a bundle of those brown yard waste bags at Costco and give them to him. He does our front and back lawn for such a decent price I want to keep him happy. 
Art has left for a BIKE RIDE with his buddies. It's suppose to RAIN sometime after Noon time, so he might be coming home earlier than his usual time. Their big goal is to ride out to Lake Orion and go and get a big fresh brewed COFFEE at the "BEAN COFFEE SHOPPE"! The man drinks way too much coffee if you ask me. But...... nobody asks me. Ha Ha
We got the PRIMER Paint for the dining room yesterday and picked up more sample chips to try and figure out just what color the walls will end up. MUCH LIGHTER than the DEEP RED COLOR that is on the wall now. We haven't painted that dining room since 2003! I guess after 19 years IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! Heck, if it was totally up to me I'd keep it for another 10 years! Ha Ha.
Moving all that STUFF out of the China Cabinets and the Side cabinet that is full of dishes and linens and silverware will be a major pain in the butt. Wish I could just move it all out the door, but I'll leave that nice job to JILL and her gang when I'm gone! 
I need to look around for some new valances for the bay window. Something plain and simple. Getting rid of the "beautiful", but dated, drapery that is up there now. IT'S TIME!
Okay, I need to get off this computer and get back to paying BILLS. I paid off the Refrigerator that we bought on one of those NO INTEREST extended plans the appliance store offered through a bank from Texas. It was nice not to have to take money out of our savings to pay it in full, but the TRICK is if you MISS one little payment they hit you with ALL THE INTEREST you didn't pay. That's how they make their money. So when I saw that it was coming to the end of the 2 years without interest loan I MADE SURE TO PAY IT OFF ON TIME. Glad that's off my mind. Home Depot has a lot of that kind of Interest Free offers on big purchases.
DAVE, I'm with you about the OSCAR SLAP. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I think he was wrong in the way he handled the situation. The problem is that the TV stations and talk shows and late night shows keep HAMMERING it over and over. STOP ALREADY.
All of you nice folks have a good day.
LEE: What do the folks that actually can't get on a computer or don't have a cell-phone that has all the bells & whistles on them to allow them to do a ARRIVE-CAN do when they get to the border. I'm thinking they get sent off to the side check lane. Or the officer at the booth has to ask more questions and they have to show all their paperwork.
