Tallahassee Area Mensa
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Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
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Robin's Roost - rest your feathers!
June was quite a full month! My friend Don came down from Atlanta for his birthday weekend with us and I continued a lifelong (for him) tradition of making an angel food cake with pink icing. He then went down to south Florida to see some other friends and again stopped off with us to break up his drive back to Atlanta. He is still adjusting to his smart phone and just this past week had the technological challenge of having purchased tickets to a theater production at the Fox Theater in Atlanta and his only option for the tickets was electronic. He had never used this method and called me to walk him through clicking the link in the email and downloading the tickets to the Wallet app on his phone. It took some time, but he eventually got it and was then astonished at how quick and easy it was to show the QR code at the parking garage and the theater and it all worked as it should. I'm very relieved it turned out well as he struggles with technology a lot and was very upset he couldn't just print out the tickets and be done with it.
Ray and I have been working on replacing the gate and section of fencing. Getting the old wooden gate down was very challenging, the thing weighs well over 200 pounds, but we managed to get it off and used the powered garden cart, and sheer willpower, to transport it to the back of the yard. We now have one section, the gate itself, and 3 posts installed, so the man who will be coming to mow the yard and the man coming to fill the bird feeders will not have to wrestle that huge, heavy wooden gate. Thank goodness!
I had the pleasure of watching a large grey rat snake come down from the redbud tree in the front yard, right in front of me (!!), and maneuver himself onto the metal archway that is over the sidewalk, and then ultimately down to the ground. A couple of times I reached out to touch his body as he was transitioning from tree to archway. They are surprisingly smooth and cool to the touch. He didn't get upset with me for touching him, just continued his journey. I encouraged him to eat every mouse and rat and mole and such that he wished but asked that he leave the birds alone. He is considering the request but may not honor it, which I understand, everything eats something.
We approached this pending trip differently than ones in the past. Over the past couple of years we have been buying this specifically for the RV - clothes, dishes, cooking things, etc. - which reduces the amount of packing and unpacking that needs to be done. The RV clothes, sheets, and towels all get washed and go back into the RV ready for the next trip. So the main things that must be transported before each trip are fresh, frozen, and refrigerated food stuff, and trip-specific items (like beach stuff if we are going to a lake). This trip will be unique in that we are staying for an extended time and we are staying at a distance from my family. I am looking forward to sitting in the screen room on the comfy rocking chairs and enjoying the cool of the evening. Since I have given almost all of my plants away, the back porch looks very empty. I wonder how many anoles I inadvertently rehomed along with the plants.
I will miss seeing you all at Golden Corral this month, but Doug will make sure everyone finds each other and enjoys a pleasant meal together.
Take care everyone, and safe travels to anyone traveling! Robin
Robin
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