Break down

I once saw a t-shirt that said Getting Old is not for Sissies. Well, who has a choice these days? At our house right now it's all about breaking down. Well, it's Arnie, poor guy who is breaking down because he pulled his back working out at the gym and now all he can do is take pain killers. It was a beautiful day, although too hot too fast, and Kate and I went off to the Park with Miss Murray leaving Arnie behind in his bed of pain. He was able to get it together to go to his new Photography course which sounds great and also like something I should have done last year when I got my new camera which I still don't know how to use!

Then the other breakdown was the dishwasher which was just replaced yesterday. I thought it was sort of instructive to have to wash the dishes and to have everybody cooperate with the dinner, breakfast and lunch process. But in the end I morphed into my mother and kept holding up all the washed glasses and inspecting them in the light. Soon I would have been convinced that we would all die of dirty dishes...So now we have a new pristine worker bee in the house.

Discovered a new dessert this week called Mango Sticky Rice and soon I will know the secret of how to make this amazing taste sensation. And soon I will probably explode from an excess of mangoes and sticky rice. But what a way to go.