Car Back

Got my lil'l darlin' back!  Jessica, from Mastercraft, knocked on my door about 11:00, having brought my car.  I drove her back (it's only about 2 miles), and happily drove away. 
Went home and made a salad for lunch, then drove--drove!--to pick up various and sundry at Shop-Rite.  Stopped at Lowe's and found "bird netting."  Figuring there's no reason it wouldn't work for other critters, I bought some, along with metal stakes to anchor it.  Home, I put the two patio pots with the planted tomatoes and covered all with the netting.  That'll show 'em!
Got a call from Lee S.  She and Mary S. are taking photos of lighthouses on lawns for the August Breeze cover.  She said they were at Amy and Ollie C.'s and were invited in.  There, in Ollie's "man cave" (odious expression), they saw more lighthouses--he makes them.  Lee thought he'd be an interesting topic for one of my profile article.  I agreed, called him, and we made a date for me to stop over this morning.
Betty called and we had a nice chat.  Her company is gone--she had one or the other of her children, with families, there for a month.
Called Aline for her birthday.  She was going out for dinner with her sister and friends, but we made a date for tonight, when I'll treat her to an ice cream for her birthday.
WIDER:  "It has often been claimed that the Vietnam War finally ended when the reaction to the sight of thousands of coffins containing dead American soldiers reached a politically unsustainable level. The Pentagon learned a lesson and subsequently used massive firepower and high-tech weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan to reduce the number of U.S. dead even if it meant significantly increasing the collateral damage inflicted on civilians. Pursuing that logic led to the drone."
From: http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/07/11/drones-overseas-lead-to-drones-at-home/ at AntiWar.com.