Ongoing non-bloggability remains, for now, non-bloggable. I expect to catch up on those events before the year is out.
As for July so far....
My favorite cat, Southmoon, died at the beginning of the month - she had a sudden recurrence of last year's gastrointestinal trouble, only worse, and just crashed. Buried in the orchard with some of her favorite toys (but no 21 bottle rocket salute).
We had family visiting for the holiday week, which went better than it might have.
Lots of fireworks for the Fourth - we had a bunch, various neighbors had some, and the family across the road put on their grand spectacle that's usually a day early but this year was on the actual holiday.
The Venerable Prius is in the shop. It was in a local shop a couple of months ago because rodents had (again) munched the fuel line; this time it was rodent munchage of something to do with evaporative emissions, the wire from the right rear wheel speed sensor (the one nearest the other munched things), causing the BRAKE and ABS lights to come on, and, since this was a trip to the Toyota dealership, I'm having them replace the right front power door lock actuator, which hasn't worked right in several years.
Just to add to the fun, as I was on my way to the dealership (in unscheduled drizzle, which made the presumed ABS malfunction somewhat worrisome), the master caution light came on, with the big red PS indication. Which, according to the Internets, does indeed mean power steering trouble. But! That seems to have cleared itself. Might have been the week aux battery (the old one is currently in the car, while the newer one sits on the battery tender in the garage, and the car hadn't been driven in a week, so I had to jump-start it when I checked on it yesterday evening).
Anyway, time to put out the rodent bait again, and see if the critters will eat the yummy vitamin D enriched rodent chow instead of my wires and fuel hoses.
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