i think chairman meow has a drug problem. i was painting my nails the other day and she sniffed the polish remover a little too enthusiastically. she sneezed for five minutes flat, and then came back to sniff it again. she's a huffer. a fluffy huffer. what am i gonna do with her, my poor strung out fuzzy. a parent's job is never done.
we drove around the park yesterday afternoon, and were the only people on sand beach. it was very beautiful, and if it wasn't so damn cold on cadillac we would've taken the top off the car. sarah, what was the mountain we climbed with the rock that the boy scouts were trying to push off the top? i can't remember the name.
i'm supposed to teach my sister how to drive my car this weekend. hey, i didn't need that clutch. no, i'm sure it'll be fine. and i've picked up some ginger pills for the nausea. so i'm prepared. those two weeks as a girl scout make all the difference.
matt is spending the weekend working on the back hoe and painting the doors of his brothers truck. like in his garage, he's going to paint a truck. it amazes me the breadth of practical skills folks here have. hanging a deer, painting cars, building cabinets. even more amazing is the building of vehicles. the story, as i understand it, is that his beast* of a truck isn't going to pass any kind of an inspection** even with the winking and the handshakes in small town maine. so he's looking for parts to build a new one. call me crazy, where i'm from people go to this place with all these shiny car like things and uber-friendly guys named bob who waltz you through the erotic dance of car buying. no no no, not here. apparently. he's looking for the frame of a dodge truck going cheap. on which he would like to put a chevy body (when he finds one) and some kind of super-hyped diesel engine*** to form a bastard of a truck. which is what they did for his brother. i guess there's sense to taking the parts of the vehicles you like best and making something you really want. but shit, i don't even know if i have a sun roof. how does one learn all that stuff about cars? guess they didn't cover that in home ec.

*very literally
**it is older than him, and has a lot more rust.
***so he can do bio-diesel.