Marie!! and I bought a car

Today is the 11th birthday of my darling grand daughter Marie.  Shown is our picture after a cooking extravaganza in our tiny kitchen.  She goes through each step methodically always aiming for perfection and generally achieving it.  I think this day we were making cheese ravioli from scratch. I love her dearly and am looking forward to the young woman she will become. 

I posted a goofy photo on my FB feed this morning of a much younger Marie with her wild morning hair and a What? look on her face.  In those days they had Alexa in their house so I could pick out the morning music to get them up.  We played Suite Judy Blue Eyes (my personal touchstone) followed by the Iron Butterfly classic In-a-gadda-da-vida.  That pissed her off, but she got up. Going to her bowling birthday party this afternoon.  Should be fun.

The lease on our Ford Fusion is complete after 3 years.  Its been a pretty good vehicle and with all our travels over the past years, we have far exceeded the mileage  allowed.  Also Ford no longer makes passenger cars, only trucks and SUVs.  So even if I wanted to obtain a vehicle from them, it would not be practical trying to get my lovely shorty daughter Shannon in the front seat. So with all the forgoing, we bought the car.  Millage is low and its in good working condition.  This is the first car I have owned since the eighties and really the first owned outright. Oh well, its another part of the senior saga.

The parents of the Oxford shooter have been located in an industrial building on Bellevue in Detroit.  I think I was there making calls in my freight days.  They have been justifiably arraigned on Involuntary Manslaughter charges for providing the firearm to their son.  This is the right call.  If not for their callous stupidity, four children would be home with their parents and others would not be visited in the hospital.

I belong to the Berkley MI FB group the features local events and local political opinions.  We have a new smoking materials emporium opening up on Coolidge down the street from my home.  I posted my opinion that they could have made a better choice when picking a business to go in the storefront in that cigarettes do not promote good health although perfectly legal.  A guy replied noting that we have a lot of pizza places that also don't promote good health.  Really, if pizza could kill you,  I would have been dead by 40 considering my consumption rate.

all for now

stay safe