Summer of change

It is a different summer with no sailboat.  One big change is bringing the house up to par.  The mother of all bathroom projects is near completion and soon we will have to pay for the work.  One thing that happens when you get old is the cost of everything is astounding.  As a kid we could fish a big 7 UP bottle out of the hedge and get a nickel.  Ten cents would buy a nice Hersey bar.  Movies were fifty cents,  swimming was thirty five cents.  Yesterday Kadizzle took Sylvie swimming and it was five dollars per person. Now this all works if wages and inflation work together, but the rich stole everything and wages have not kept up with inflation.

Besides the bathroom the house painting is also eating our lunch.  One more day of painting may do it.  With cedar siding we are approaching the last time we can paint and not replace the aging wood.

Now for the puzzle.  Kadizzle sits here with periodic stabbing pains in his head.  Yesterday Kadizzle went to the doctor who could find nothing wrong.  Kadizzle and the doctor suspect some sort of muscle problem where the skull connects to the the shoulders.  Actually the pain is behind the left ear.  This morning Kadizzle wondered if it might be something from a tick bite.  The pain comes and goes, but it is a sharp pain.  Thought maybe some morning coffee would help, but not making much difference.

Too much time has been spent trying to solve some of the mysteries around Kadizzles vast oil and gas holdings.  Hoping for another pizza well Kadizzle has delved into county court house records.  Now the historical search of records has become fascinating.  You can dig up a lot of information once you understand how to search court house records.  Since you can do it from your computer that changes everything.  Kadizzle looked up his own birth certificate.  It seem to imply that Kadizzle was born a month later than he was actually born, but it was a month later when the birth was verified.  With such an important birth surely it would take at least a month to verify.