Life on the Road

Why haven’t I been writing about all the cool places in and near Boston that we’ve gone to? Because we haven’t gone anywhere!

It’s very hard to write about destinations when it rains every blessed day here. And not just light little rain. Torrential downpours. Tornadoes. It might be sunny and nice for 3 hours, but if we go out to do something, we’ll be holding newspapers over our heads and running to the car, hoping the lightning is a little further off than it looks.

It’s been so bad, my uncle’s workplace was actually struck by lightning. If you knew my uncle, this wouldn’t shock you in the least. Bizarre seems to follow him around. The man cut his thumb off at work 2 months ago.

We have a pile of papers we need to shred or get rid of– papers with enough personal information we don’t want to just throw it away. Guess what? All those lovely paper places, like Kinkos? They don’t take paper for shredding! They have shred-boxes on the premises, they use shredded paper in packing materials… it seems like a win-win for them to accept sensitive papers, shred them for customers, and use the shredded paper in packing. We have a teeny tiny shredder as part of our paperless lifestyle, but there’s a stack of backlog papers that would take days to shred in our little dinky home shredder (which would, no doubt, overheat).

So, what to do? Well, I suggested recently that we should have a campfire and burn the sensitive papers. Then they’d be destroyed and we would have one less box kicking around the RV. Plus I have a couple of old wax candles I don’t need anymore that could go into the flames. The problem? It hasn’t been dry enough at night for us to pick up a cord of wood and have a non-smoky campfire!

So, here’s hoping for a little less “weather” around here, so we might get out and enjoy the location for a change!

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