It's my brother's birthday today. Happy Birthday Willie !!! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday Dear Willie! Happy Birthday to You! Did you get the card I sent?

HTP and I went out hunting for a fountain today. Tomorrow the landscapers come and we didn't know when we'd have time to find just the right fountain to fit into our backyard. We spent a fruitless half day in Mesa and then in Tempe looking at fountains. Nothing looked quite right. Then we went to Guadalupe. Still no luck. At last we revisited a place that we'd seen last weekend, closer to home. We got there at 5 PM. They closed at 5 PM. We pushed our way into the shop regardless of the time. Could we just look around? We found and purchased the perfect fountain...we even dickered. It just goes to show you that sometimes the very thing that you want the most and are searching for the hardest will usually show up right under your nose and it's been there the whole time. Now we just have to figure out how to get a five piece, 300# fountain from downtown Chandler to our house. They refuse to load something like that into the back of a SUV. We're going to talk to our landscaper tomorrow. He's got a pickup and so do his Hooligans (this is what he calls his work crew).

Murphyism of the Day

Dunne's Law

The territory behind rhetoric is too often mined with equivocation.