Friday July 16th

Morning,

Well I do believe these would be considered the dog days of summer. It is so bloody humid out there I cannot stand it. I come home wiped out and totally drained. Thank goodness for updating our electrical in the house, we have the air conditioners running almost all the time these days.

Life is going along pretty well here. We are off to Buttonwood Farms this week end. They have a Sunflower Festival with 14 acres of Sunflowers planted. They give tours and rides and sell the sunflowers. All the proceeds go to the Make a Wish Foundation, what a worthy cause, I was planning on buying some but now I make get a few more and share them. I hope the weather is not so humid so we can enjoy the ride thru the farm and events planned.

My car is still in the shop, this is week number two. We were read ended and the back end of my care was really smooshed. Three weeks of waiting to get my new baby back. We had been a red lights and were hit hard from behind. She never saw the light or us stopped. Dumb shit! Sorry. At least no one was hurt and my car did what it was supposed to do, absorb the hit. That was good. The rental is nice, it is all covered by the insurance, but I want my car back as good as new. They assure me it will be, so now I wait. Do you all remember me, the impatient one, the one who wants it done now, not wait. Not easy, poor Larry, he has to deal with me.

We are enjoying the summer so far. We have a lot of camera club events starting up again as of next week, so that will be good too.

Hope you all try to stay cool and enjoy the week end.

Sat July 10

All is well here, it feels so good to get a really good deep nights sleep. I have gone back to reading at night. I find for me that reading stops me from thinking and planning what has to be done the next day. It is not easy when your a planner and list maker to shut the mind down on personal things. I find by reading a book, I am turning my attention to a good plot, really enjoying the words and the story I visualize what the characters look like. Then when I go to sleep I am free of the every day stuff and can sleep.
I had Physical Therapy again yesterday, man is he pushing me hard, I know I need it, I can feel the stronger my left knee/muscles are already. I think I have come to the decision of waiting on the surgery for a few months. When the pain is with every step or close to it, then I will schedule it. As of now it is only when I turn the knee or step on uneven ground. My knee has no, zip zero nadda cartilage behind it. What I do know is it does have lots of arthritis there. Oh the abuse that knee took in my younger days, soon it will be time to pay the piper for it. So as long as I walk knowingly and carefully it is less painful. That I will live with for a while and am OK with that.
We are having a lay ow sort of week end again. I am making Blueberry Slump, his Moms Recipe, oh oh this is a first time for me, I only hope it comes out close to hers after hearing all about it for all these years.
Stay cool this week end. Life is good and just keeps getting better.

Tuesdays Hot

Well folks is it hot enough for you all? I mean I have never been that bothered by it, and would admit to enjoying the heat, BUT this is just crazy...The humidity has to drop some to make it a lot more bearable please. I have never in all my years left the AC on in my house for the entire day when we were not home. Today if felt so good to come in to the house and have it noticeably cool. So to everyone out there who have to be outside, drink lots of water and try to stay cool.

Monday

Hello,

What a busy few days we had. I planned on doing not much but what is they say, the best laid plans etc...So we managed to move book cases around, rearrange the spare room and so much more. It is those little things that take time that never show. I took a screw driver to all my kitchen cabinets and tightened the handles, simple enough but I just never took the time to do it. We bought new Smoke carbon monoxide detectors and better yet he installed them already too. See what I mean about those silly household things that do not show but need to be done. It feels good. I made new desert with home made vanilla wafers, home made pudding and built a desert with them and a little banana liqueur and bananas. Oh so yummy. I built it sort of like a trifle, I made three small ones. I will give one to Cara and Tim, one is made without bananas for Ian and the other one is for us. Larry made some delicious Gazpacho Soup, it tasted so good today since it was so hot outside. We are having an easy dinner of simply BLT's.

I did work today, tomorrow everyone else will be back to work too. All is very well.

Happy Fourth Week End

Happy Fourth of July to you All,

Let us remember all those who are no longer with us, and those who cannot be with us at this time. I plan on laying low this week end and enjoying being home. My goal is to do a little work around the house, very little, and just sit back in my favorite chair and read. I have been fortunate to have been able to travel a lot lately so some down time is going to feel really good. I am one of those people who will be working on Monday.

Enjoy, eat, drink and be merry.

Back to Reality

Well we are back from vacation. I think Acadia is one step away from being in Heaven. It is so beautiful in that entire area. There is so much to see and do too. I saw a Bald Eagle in the wild, just perched up there in the tree, how cool is that. We saw seals, sunning themselves too. Larry and I took a Sunset Cruise on a four mastered schooner, that was a wonderful treat. We also took a light house cruise, oh being on the water is so good for the soul. Here is the real kicker, we walked around Jordan Pond together. That my friends is a 3.1 mile walk/hike around the Pond. I must add there were two places along the walk where you actually are climbing rocks to get around that pond, what a work out that was. I was so lad to make it around it. It was that or just leave me there to die. What a work out that was. I will say it was so peaceful and beautiful though. So much has happened since and during that trip. I will update more later on. Gotta head to my clients now.

VACATION

That is the song that is in my head. I am on vacation again, life is so good. This time off to the woods, to chill out, veg out, watch sunrises and sunsets and enjoy some clams, scallops and onion rings. We are heading out in the morning and I am so looking forward it, we both are actually.

I wish you all good weather here. I wish you patience love and laughter while I am gone.