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Strange New Phone Scam?

Sooooo...  I am extremely annoyed.  Several nights ago I got a call from who knows who with an East Indian accent.  They asked if Robert was home and I said now, may I ask who is calling?  And he asked if he could speak to his wife, I said I was his wife.  The tone then changed and he became angry, and yelled at me, "Robert has a girlfriend!  Yeah, he is divorcing you and you need to sign the divorce papers!"  This was of course ridiculous so I laughed and said, "Oh he is?  We just got married.  And how am I going to sign these papers? Over the phone?"   And the guy still upset yells, "He told me he has a girlfriend and he wants to divorce you!"  I then called him a liar and as I was hanging up he was yelling he was not a liar blah blah blah.   What an odd thing to happen.  No one had our house number at that time so it was not a prank call from anyone we knew.  We get a lot of telemarketing calls though...

Something About Working With Your Hands... Things I End Up Thinking About

Today I slept in.  I guess for some reason or another I needed it, since last Tuesday night I messed up the sleep cycle.  When I woke up, however, I felt like tackling a big task.  The stinging nettle weeds came to mind.  So I put on my pink work gloves, because pink is the color of power (I read it somewhere) and they have a thick rubber coating so the thorns won't stab through.  I get out there and before the weeding, I raked up the rest of the leaves on the cement platforms, then used the leaf blower around the trees by the hammock.  I threw them all away in a box which will be transferred over to the green waste bins when they get delivered.  Then on to the stinging nettle.  Some were easier than others to pull, I had to use a shovel for a few of them. Break time.  Before heading inside to check Facebook I stood out there on my porch, looking at the property, at the dirt road that leads to it, at the trees, my peach tree (I called ...