Fried Day

I am looking forward to tomorrow 

    Jackie's brother Bob and his wife Anita are here for a visit.

    We are all going to Julia's for lunch.

    I am looking forward to it for 2 reasons:  1: it's nice to see them.  2: I won't have a lot of stuff to do!

    Visiting with them is the important one.  

    But after today, I can use some rest.

    Friends Dan and Linda were in town and I met up with them and visited with Dan for about an hour.

    Then I raced home to get Jackie lunch before going to my PT session.

    I went to 2 stores for groceries, got gas in the car, (damn near fainted at the price!), stopped at Cypress House for a coffee, got home and finished a load of laundry, then I went out to mow.

    Knowing it is going to rain fore the next 40 days and nights, I wanted to get the grass cut before it got too high.  I was too late.  I ended up having to use the lawn sweeper, which was fine until it got dark and I messed up the sweeper.

    But my trimmer worked....so I got some trimming done.

    For some reason, I am not tired.  It might be the coffee is circulating through my system.  I feel like I should be doing something physical right now.

    When I go to bed I will be regretting the coffee.

    I will never learn.

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace

oops, oops, and oops

 Some days I just don't function well

    I thought Julia was going to DeKalb Friday, so I ordered some special dog food from the vet and told them it would be picked up Friday.

    Well, Julia is not going to DeKalb Friday.  She is going to Rockford.

    Oops.

    So I went today.

    I figured as long as I am going to DeKalb, Jackie wanted some towels at Kohl's, since we have a 30 percent off coupon.

    I was almost out of Rochelle when I noticed I brought the Ace coupon, not the Kohl's.

    Oops.

    Jackie had a library board meeting tonight, so I figured to work on my new Great American Novel.  I packed up my laptop, and my notebook.  Got to the library, unpacked and discovered I did not bring the cord.  

    Oops

    I am sure there were more oops.......sometimes I lose count.

    I read that Japan has 107,677 centenarians.  People 100 and over.  88 percent of them are women.

    Maybe I should move to Japan.  And maybe I don't want to live. to be 100, so never mind.

    I texted someone about plowing our  driveway, and then texted him about baseball.  He should not have gotten the baseball text.  He probably thinks I am crazy.

    He may be right.  I may just bet the lunatic you are looking for.

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace

not much

 Today was one of those days, again

    Misty, humid, and I had no motivation to work in the yard.

    What did I do?

    Read on the porch and even worked in a short nap when I fell asleep in my porch chair.

    And I did watch most of the Cub game, holding my breath while the ninth inning unfolded.  Damn relievers.

    HVAC technician was here to get the furnace ready for winter.  

    Whew.  I love it when we sing Go Cubs Go.    A big thank you to  Steve Goodman for writing it.  Another talent gone too soon.

Peace and Love

    Especially Peace

ick

 Note to self:  check bread

    I made BLTs for supper. tonight.

    I actually bought lettuce, washed it, burned some bacon, and cut up the 2 tomatoes from our garden.

    I made Jackie's sandwich and gave it to her.  Then I got distracted.  About 15 minutes later I made my sandwich.  Toasted the bread, put it on thy plate,  slapped some mayo on it, put on the bacon, tomato, lettuce......and noticed this black spot on the bread.  I checked the other pice. It too had a black spot.

    By then Jackie had finished her sandwich.  She said it was good, but no I wonder if she had moldy bread too.

    I guess I need to be more observant.

    One the plus side, she may have had an antibiotic.

    I  made my almost daily trip to Walmart today.

    I figured into the store, pick up about 10 items, then out to. the car.  Quick.  Easy.

    But I met someone  I have not seen in years.  We talked for a while.

    Then on the way out I met another friend, and we talked for a while.

   Amazingly, I knew both names!!

    After my next 2 errands, I got home about 90 minutes after I left.  So much for a quick trip.

    I started the day in shorts, went to long pants, came home from the store and switched to shorts.  I am ready to put long pants on again, but it is almost bedtime for Bonzo.

    I sat on the front porch reading today.  It felt good to just read for about an hour.

    Yes, I had things to do.  No. they did not get done.

    If it is worth putting off yesterday, it is worth putting off today.

    That's my motto

    And I am sticking with it.

Peace and Love

    Especially Peace

nosey me

 I love checking Zillow for available properties

    We are not looking, but I enjoy seeing what other houses are going for.

    There is one in our subdivision listed for just a shade under 500,000$.  And there is one on Knoll Road    listed for just a tad under 900,000$.  Both are nice houses.  

    I would need 4 jobs to make payments, and they had better be high paying jobs!

    Took Beth for a short walk today.  Her do do looks normal, which is a great sign!

    I noticed a crispness to the air.  A harbinger of fall perhaps.   The breeze certainly was cool and I was even chilled in my sweatshirt.

    But tomorrow it should be 80 again.  And humid.  I want fall.

    I do have to get going on my outside chores.  I still have 3 to do from last week.  I just don't seem to be motivated.

    I bought some trees from a nursery last year.  Nice trees.  Good size.

    But one of the trees has a dead leader.  My plan was to take a branch and bend it up, then use tree wrap ti hold it in position. That way the new branch will be come the leader.  In theory.

    So I went to the hardware store and found some tree wrap.

    Went to the check out counter and it was $10!  I foolishly bought it.  I noticed it was made in China, which means there is a tariff on it.  I swear I have bought this stuff in the past and it ws no where near that price.

    When I got home, I thought about it and decided to take it back.  I will do that tomorrow.

    In its place I will use a panty hose.  They expand and I can't remember the last time Jackie wore some.

    Besides, they have to be cheaper than the wrap.  Right?

    Just hope it works.

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace

whew!

 This was a pretty busy day!

    I took part in a museum program.  I read a letter from John Jay arguing for a Constitution.  Friend Steve read a letter from Mr. Gerry opposing signing the Constitution.

    Writing back them was much more, how to say it?  They used big words and complex sentence structure.

    Sometimes I stumble when reading big words.  Like sanguine.  I think this is the first time in may life I had used it in a sentence.

    Digression.  I would give my fifth graders a spelling/language assignment where they had to use a spelling word in a sentence with correct capitalization and ending punctuation.  My sentence for sanguine would mimic some fifth graders.  I don't know how to use sanguine in a sentence.

    But I learned it is an adjective and is used to display optimism in a tense situation. 

    I also realized we will have a whole generation of people  who will not be able to read any of the letters or hand written manuscripts done before Covid.  Reading cursive is a lost art.  Writing cursive is lost art.

    Actually, my handwriting is terrible.

    A student came up to me after the first report cards of the year went home.  He said his dad thought I had a funny first name.

    I said it was pretty common.  The boy replied his dad had never met someone named Tenny.  that is when I realized my cursive r pretty much looked like an n.  Still does.

    After the museum thing, I watched a little of the Bears game.  When do Super Bowl tickets go on sale?

    Jackie and I also put together fruit kabobs for our neighborhood block party.

    I cut the fruit and she put it on the kabobs:  apple, banana, grapes, strawberry and cucumber.

    I also bought a yellow watermelon, but the pieces were too hard to stick on the kabobs.

    And yess, the melon is yellow on the inside!  I cut up pieces and put them in a platter but not a lot of people seemed adventurous 

    I saw an Eastender and asked where he lived and what his name was.  (I divide our street into Eastenders and Westenders.  We are Westenders.  It has nothing to do with a certain British drama series.)

    He said, "Same house I lived in last year when you asked.  And the year before.  And the year before when you asked me.  I think n ext year I will just put Terry on my name tag."

    It was a nice time.  I did know a lot of the people, and even met some new ones.  

    I just don't remember their names.

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace

and you are?

I went to a retirement party tyesterday

    Jackie opted not to go, which was lucky because the facility was pretty crowded and getting a wheel chair around would have been hard.

    Anyway, saw a lot of people I know.  A young man came over and said hello, and I asked him if he had been in the new Tilton School yet.  He looked at me like I was nuts. He said he had passed by it, but had not been in it.

    That's when I realized I was talking to the wrong name.  Let's say I thought it was Tim, but it was Bob.  As soon as he said no, I realized my error and called him Bob.  I was correct.

    A woman was serving appetizers.  I called her Susie several times.  After my third helping, I realized here name is not Susie.  I said, "I have been calling you Susie, but that is not your name, is it?

    She told me no, Susie was her boss.  She was Barbara.

    But the coup de grass came when a woman came into the room. 

    I said to her"Long time no see."  and I  chuckled. Then I said, "Jackie likes the shirts I bought."

    She had a puzzled look on her familiar face. Finally she asked, "Do you know who I am?"

    I admitted I did not.

    "Joanie Johnson," she said and I immediately smacked my forehead!  Of course!  I confused her with a person I bought some shirts for Jackie.from.  (That's a real awkward sentence, but I don't know how else to say it.)

    The only similarity is they both are short ladies with short light colored hair.  Facially they are not the same and I knew  this woman.  I had her kids in school!    At one point we were neighbors!!   

     Good grief.

    That explains why I can never find Waldo in those insidious books.  I can't distinguish faces. (Again, I know.  You have to look for Waldo's clothes, not his face.  Still can't do it.)

    Today we were at a place and I had to ask Jackie, 'Which one is Mona?  Whose Beth? Is that one Mary"?

    Of the 3, I was 1 for 3.  If Jackie had not been there, I would have called everyone by the wrong name.  Maybe I should just use the word friend instead of a name.

    That is certainly safer, though less adventurous. 

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace

Cut the square night at the museum.....this 1931 Rolls Royce made it

I love hood ornaments and decorations on older cars.

This was a1951 Dodge Wayfarer  .....Note the man behind it wearing a black and red shirt, just like the car

And the pup is a stuffed animal