Dave himself came out to fix the fridge - Ed Quinn came out for paint selection - While I watched n slept thru a movie rental dans le living

I asked one of the Albanians - Zack - to take my photo. I always find new clothes when I look thru my closet. Bought this years ago at The Sweater Mill in Hatboro.

Here's Dave Foster, owner of Dave's Appliances in Horsham, PA, 19044. My credit union is there and I got a donation for the Compass - thank you MARCY!!! - so I addressed an envelope and chased after Mailman Ken.

Did you ever get the feeling, I asked him, that you were being stalked?

He smiled. I make him happy. I'm probably the only nut on his route.

Am drinking strong delicious coffee out of my new Starbux mug from my sister Donna. She advised me to come over tonite bc she's moving in THREE WEEKS.

She urged me to take whatever I wanted from 1 Drummers Way, Hatboro PA 19040.

We ate popcorn in her bedroom and I drank delicious strong coffee she made me in a chipped cup. The youngsters she lives with break everything.

That's why I use Corelle.

  Dave and "Blake" another Albanian were here a few hours. They fixed the fridge and also the icemaker.

Dave wants me to call him tomro for a report. At age 50, he's got a lucrative biz and was named Best Appliance Repair by Philadelphia Magazine. 

At age 14, he went to the Vo-tek School around the corner on Terwood Road and studied appliance repair.


New name is Eastern Center for the Arts and Technology.

He began getting clients while he was still in school. He has five children and lots of grandchildren. A granddaughter, Layla, was just born last nite at AMH. He was there and didn't get much sleep. He lives in Horsham.
 

Great Performances on PBS. Just finished. Marvelously exciting.

From the Times:  Since its premiere in 1988, Mark Morris’s full-length dance staging of Handel’s oratorio “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato” has provoked two widespread reactions. One: How blessed we are to live in an age in which such miraculous beauty is made! Two: When will this be filmed and made available to a wider public?

That question now finds its answer in a new television film directed by Vincent Bataillon. Recorded last year at Madrid’s Teatro Real, it will be broadcast on Friday on PBS as part of “Great Performances,” with an introduction by Mikhail Baryshnikov and interviews with Mr. Morris, some members of the Mark Morris Dance Group and his music director, Colin Fowler.

Ed Quinn and his friend John were here for several hours taking stock of what they'll need to do to paint my BR and the hall, where the wallpaper is peeling off. 

 This is a funny little closet high off the bedroom floor. Nothing important is in there but it's packed. Give a person space, and they will fill it, right Cindy?

 This painting hides big gouges in the wall. Can't remember how they occurred.

John and Ed.

John retired as a fire fighter 8 yrs ago. At "the Department," as they called it, everyone did every job there was.

EMT

Driver of the Ladder Truck

Scott Pack Man - goes into the burning building, suited up



Oxygen lasted for half an hour. Today it's 45 minutes. Get out fast. The roof could fall on you. Yes, you're scared but you're running on adreniline. You can't see. You feel your way inside. John has seen some sad sights in burning buildings. He also arrived just in time when occupants were standing on the roof of a burning bldg and his team was able to lower them down before they jumped!

Look at what happened to my former home at Village Green Apartments in Hatboro. 



 John also rode the Tillerman truck. It's pronounced TILLerman



Ed, who studied interior design at Temple, brought his color cards with him. For my BR, to go with my lavender rug, I chose....

Charcoal gray .... as soon as I saw it.... I went wild!!!

For my hallway, the above dramatic Burgundy. I am psyched!!! But it won't happen for another month.

Donna encouraged me to take whatever I wanted. Here's a darling cup she made with three coffee spoons in it. She's a gifted potter.

Had she had the motivation - and she's really talented - she could've been another Bill Daley, who I interviewed for Art Matters.

 Steady your eyes, Dear Reader, and I'll tell you what this is. In the freezer of my dead refrigerator is this fish that Bernie Samuels gave me - bronzini or European Sea Bass - and told me how to make.

The head is on the Right.

It was filled with bones. At one point a bone got caught in my throat but I kucked it up. You'll have to figger out what that means.

Here's the mostly filleted fish.

Incredibly delicious! I picked on it throughout the day.

Then I put it in the compost heap for the feral cats.

  This is a difficult film to watch. Am halfway through. Award-winning by HBO. Made in 2001, it has an international cast including a very young-looking Stanley Tucci playing Colonel Eichmann.