Today I heard about the world’s tiniest deer. It never really occurred to me that there would be full grown deer as small as 13 inches. The name of the deer is Pudu. Theyare found in south America. There is a northern Pudu and a Southern Pudu, which are different by about one inch.
I found a photo of a doe and her fawn. The fawn is smaller than the rabbits in my backyard. Isn’t that amazing?
There’s nothing worse than being out of town on a business trip and having a dental problem. My stepdaughter is on a business trip to Charlotte and when they went out to dinner she bit down on something in her burger and broke off part of her tooth. That hurts! The restaurant was totally apologetic and offered to pay her dental bill. So that’s a help. But she has to find a dentist in a strange town to see her on an emergency basis and that’s the challenge. She might have to just deal with a toothache until she can get back home to her own dentist.
How do you find a dentist when you are out of town? Or new to an area? I was worried about that very thing when I moved out to California. Luckily, I found one near the hotel that I lived in for the 2 months it took to find a condo out there. They helped me with regular dental work and they recommended a good Periodontist for me, too. After all, just about everybody over the age of 40 is at risk of gum disease.
Although my dentist in California was very good, I found out when I got back to Tennessee that her prices were more than double what I would pay here in Nashville. After all, the cost of living is very high in California. so you have to expect that the professional services will be higher, along with everything else.
Mom is helping her BFF, Ms. Jinx, moved into her new house somewhere in the Tampa Bay area. Everyone in my mom’s generation dreamed of retiring and moving to Florida. It’s how they put up with the harsh winters in the DC suburbs all those years. So Ms Jinx is finally living her dream. I’m truly happy for her and glad my mom is able to be there to help.
One of the guys I went to school with must be having one of those traditional mid life crises we always hear about He got divorced two years ago and has been going nuts every since with all kinds of crazy stunts. He called me a couple weeks ago asking about San Francisco, Castro Area, for a planned trip. I was surprised that he would ask me, although I did live in the Bay area for 6 months. But I lived in Fremont, not the Castro Area.
The Castro Area is known for the upscale, interior designers and fashion icons, with an assortment of Gay bars and boutiques.In fact, The Castro is notorious world-wide for being a gay hotspot. There are always fun things to do in The Castro, especially if you like people watching.
My focus while living in the San Francisco area was to try as many different Restaurants as I could afford to explore. There are almost no chain restaurants anywhere, so you have to be brave and try all the places with unfamiliar names. Some are real hole in the wall places, and many are inside or nice hotels. But it helps a lot of you know someone who has already been there or at least have a good place to look them up online for reviews.
I also really liked the Coffee Shops and made a point to spend at least an hour or two every weekend at a different cafe, reading the Chronicle or people watching. It was a really nice way to absorb the flavor of each community.