... an elderly mother and her middle-aged daughter. I assume the daughter is responsible for this. (The wall is actually white and the ink is silver.) I have no idea what the **** she was thinking when she did this. Someone suggested Magic Eraser and it really works! (There were more words below "Earth" when I started erasing.)

Two deals fell through but the third went off without a hitch. Introducing our winter getaway:



This guy -- some kind of crane, I think -- hangs out in the two ponds behind our building. He (she?) is probably between 3 and 4 feet tall. Taken from our screened-in lanai.



Later that evening, at Walmart ...