saturday

I didn't do much of anything yesterday. I should have but didn't.
Today I plan on paying my bills and doing a little yard work........and I need to caulk some areas of the front porch...................hopefully there will be time to do some painting.......and I'll probably do some laundry.
Both the kitties spent the night outside. I worry about the raccoons getting them when they spend the night out..........made me smile when they filed through the front door this morning...........both of them ate and are now napping.
This is day 3 of 4 days off from work. I just don't want to work anymore.......have been taking as many days off without pay as I can afford.........and using vacation time here and there..............
I went to mom and dads house one day last week to help dad with a new CD player he bought. He had  Johnny Mathis playing...........I remember when I was a child waking to Johnny Mathis singing while dad hummed along as he shaved. I loved the smell of his aftershave mixed with the steam from the hot water......and it always made me smile when I'd hear him sing.
    His and moms 60 year anniversary would have been next month. I was talking to him on the phone the other night. He talked about the day they got married...........how my moms aunt took them to Indiana to marry..(mom was 17. my aunt signed for her)...........he told me he remembers everything about the day. "I can remember what your mom was wearing, what I was wearing....the car we drove.......we had $8.00 between the two of us.(he laughed) I remember it all." They spent their honeymoon at the drive-in.................................the one thing he could not remember is what movie was playing. I googled it without any luck............
Dads been going to a citizens 12 week  police academy..................he got to "work" the 911 center, talk to people from the DEA, see all the different drugs, visit the jails and courthouse, look at car wreck photos and autopsy reports(coincidentally the first autopsy report he read happened to be that of a friend of his who was killed in a car wreck), and will work a shift of his choosing with a cop from the city of dads choosing. He's planning on working the 12mn to 4 am shift in one of the tougher (but not horrible)neighborhoods. "I hope I see a fight!" lol