It's a beautiful sunny morning, with mountain bluebird skies. Those cumulus clouds are building around the edges though, promising some more possible thunderstorms this afternoon. Its in the 60s so far with a nice breeze.
Well I started off the morning in a bad mood I guess. I had been grumbling, internally, about Joe wanting to watch Wimbledon tennis, instead of another 30 minutes of CBS Sunday Morning which has always been one of my more favorite shows. Oh well, tennis is good and he likes it.
But when I sat down to read e-mail I found another thing to keep me in a REALLY REALLY bad mood. My godaddy account had charged me - without asking or advising beforehand - nearly $150 to renew my website for 3 more years. There was the receipt glaring at me from my screen. This had cost me $27 for 3 years the last time it was renewed- i.e. went from $9/year to $50 per year.
I could not believe it. So went right to the phone number and cancelled the whole thing. (Had to page the handset first, because this room is in such a mess I couldn't find the phone!!) Anyway I guess they would never have gotten the money because that's the credit card that was cancelled about 6 months ago. I would have renewed the website if they had charged essentially the same fee, but was not even given that option, nor did he answer any of my questions, just told me how to cancel it and they would refund to the (non-existant) credit card. This time I didn't even try to be polite, although he was and continued to just go through the process.
So..... there is no longer a Lynn Thomas Art website any more. It's just as well, because I didn't know how to work on it or never tried, Even had bought Front Page to work on it, and the book to learn how. Guess I could have eventually figured it out. Help that had been promised never came because of large problems in two friends lives who got it started. But why bother at this point. If anybody knows how to save it - onto a CD or something - before they take it off will you please let me know? Thanks.
Going in to dinner at Kathy and James was a very enjoyable evening. We took time on the way to go search and possibly find four houses that Scott had landscaped and given me directions to in order to see some of his work. It was kind of like searching for needles in a haystack, but we think we found them all. The directions sounded simple, and were, but when we actually got to each one were never sure we really had the right house except most of the places did not have any landscaping. So came to the conclusion that we were in the right place if there was new landscaping. And the landscaped yards all looked nice.
Then to the cousins. There must have been about 10 adults and a small band of well behaved kids. Two of their grandchildren were there and they each had a friend or two. Dinner was delicious and it was fun to see those we knew again, and meet new friends from Georgia and Florida. We didn't stay for the fireworks, as it would have been three more hours until dark and then the show and long drive home. Neither of us was really up to it and Joe had to continue pumping water. So we came on home. They had sprayed for the mosquitoes in town but boy they were swarming here last night. The dogs just get covered.
