Who Am I?

Today's high temperature was:  72 degrees

Today's humidity was:  60%

Sunny, a nice breeze- PERFECT!

Someday's I wonder who in the heck am I.  I feel strange in my head at times.  I don't have the same reactions, fears or thoughts that I have had most of my life.  Things that I use to be so definite about, now I find grey areas.  I don't have much motivation.  Late in the evening, when I really feel awake and alive, I think about what I am going to do the next day.  Then, in the morning, I wake up and I just don't care.  

What's up with that?

I always feel better mentally and physically if I get out, or do a chore, but the motivation to do that...just isn't there. I feel like I have to force myself to get out of bed..to get outside...to even move out of my chair.

No--I am not depressed--I don't think.  I've never been a lazy person.  I don't know..........maybe I AM losing my mind.

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My alarm went off at 8:00, as usual.  I turned it off, rolled over and went back to sleep until 10:00, as usual.  I so want to stop this habit!  But--I don't feel awake until around 10:00 at night, so...I stay up until 2-3 or 4.  No wonder I can't wake up at 8:00.  It's summer!  Lots of light in the morning.  Lots of time to get things done!  I tried going to bed last night at 11:00--couldn't sleep.  Took a Melatonin, still couldn't sleep.  Finally at 2:00, I took a Benedryl--then I slept and I must have slept well because, when I made the bed this morning, I only had to pull up the covers on my side of the bed.  The covers weren't wrinkled, the other side, still made up.

I got up, fed the cats and sat down at the computer for two hours!  It was noon--I hadn't eaten yet--walked up to Pearl's for a chat for an hour.  When I got back home, I got a half a sandwich, and sat down in my chair.  I was going to watch a movie.

Then I remembered--the big chore I wanted to do outside.  It was my kind of weather--cool, with a nice breeze.  I made myself get up and outside and worked on the chore.  Hard work and I got it done.  Not perfect, but...good enough.  The lawn area under the bird feeders is now level with the rest of the lawn--not that 8 inch mound anymore.  

 

Nice and level

I used my garden fork to dig with, to loosen it up with, then shoveled all the chunks into yard waste bags--it took two, only about 1/4 full--I could hardly drag them to the drive.  Then I raked it.  Now, I just need to put a bit of grass seed on it and all is well.

My back was screaming like a banshee, so I put a DVD of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in the player, sat down and cross stitched while I watched it.  I haven't seen the movie since it's release, some 40 years ago and had forgotten how hilarious and sad it was. When it was over, I felt unsettled.

I got up and moved around a bit and went outside to check out my Freddy Gifts.  The lilies are still beautiful--the one by the front porch steps still has not bloomed, but is loaded with buds.  I think the pink one is my favorite.

Maybe that's what is wrong with me.  I had a sad time last night and today, thinking about Fred a lot.  I go days without even thinking of him and then---BAM--for no reason.  I don't understand it.  Maybe I didn't grieve hard enough or long enough?  Maybe this is some delayed shit? 

I have been feeling so upbeat lately and now...beat down.  I tell you---my moods are like the temperature--way high one day, cool the next.  

...and yet--I feel different.  I ponder on that--I ponder way too much.  Always trying to figure things out.  

I don't have the fears I use too.  I don't have the feeling that I am being ridiculed by the elders anymore.  I have such freedom and I like it.  Maybe it's this new person that is emerging from the constraints of so many years--and thus, it feels strange?  Even a bad habit is missed when it is gone.  

Maybe that's it!  Maybe it is this feeling of finally being free for the first time in my life and I am not use to that.  I don't have to be continually thinking of how I can be pleasing or please the Daddy and step-mother.  I actually have no one I have to account to.

I have no one, but me.  Now that is something I certainly am not use to!!! 

Maybe I feel a bit lost from all the recent changes?  I just don't feel real comfortable in my own skin.

Who am I?  I guess I better get to it and figure that all out!!!

   

AGAIN!!!

Today's Temperature was: 81%

Today's humidity was:  72%

Rain, dark clouds, lightning and thunder 

AND

a delicious cool breeze this evening.

I am hoping tomorrow will be rain free and low humidity and cool because--I have a gigantic outside chore to do.  This mound is under the bird feeders.  Apparently has grown from all the seed that drops on the ground.  I need to loosen it up with my garden fork and then shovel the clumps into a yard waste bag or 4, so the yard waste people can pick it up on Tuesday.  I had to do this one other time--you cannot imagine the terrible way that rotten seed stinks!!!   

You can't really see it that well.

Here we go--now you can see the elevation better.

Side garden by front porch doing well.  I can't wait for the lily plant in front to bloom--as I remember, the blooms are a pinkish-purple.  I love the sign my little sister made for me.  The piece of slate is from Prince Edward Island--you know the Anne of Green Gables place.  Then Susan painted on it.  She is very good at painting and drawing.  She takes after our Mother in that respect.  I got none of that talent.  I can drive a tractor and a big stick shift farm truck--like any of that does any good now in my life. My Daddy thought it was important for me to know how.  Strange, but when Susan came along--well let's just say she can't even drive a stick shift car, let along a truck and I dare say she wouldn't know the first thing about driving a tractor!!!

Have you noticed?  I try and get pictures for my post every day now.  I don't have a fancy camera--I just have this little digital Canon that Freddy got for me a couple of Christmas' ago.  It does have a zoom feature, but---not the greatest.  Anyway, I love it when people post pix on their blogs, so I am trying to make it more interesting.

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Okay--let's review recent purchases.

I am giving a 5* rating to the Pocket Hose.  I know that men like their heavy duty, rubber hoses.  Karen told me that is the kind that Mark has and it about wears her out to unwind it, haul it around and water the gardens.  So I will give you the same advice I gave her.  If that is the case in your household--buy the pocket hose for yourself!  It comes in 50' lengths and you can put lengths together.  The 50' one weighs about 1 pound.  Then you take off the rubber hose from the house spigot, put your handy dandy pocket hose on, walk it so easily out to where you want to water--have a ball watering--no strain on your neck, shoulders, back or legs, then, when done.  Drain it--it does it automatically, put HIS hose back on and store your light weight cute, snaky, green pocket hose in a secret place until next time.  HE will never know.  NO--I am not advising mutiny in a marriage.  You know full well, we all keep secrets from our husband's--this is a good secret.

I am also giving a 5* rating to the 1,600 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheets from nomorerack.com.  I washed them today.  It didn't take them very long to dry and they came out of the dryer, totally wrinkle free!  Man--I love these sheets.  I ordered two more pair for Pammie and Karen's birthday gifts.  Really--for $30.00, a great deal!  I am very particular about my sheets--I can't stand anything that would catch on a rough toe nail or heel.  I do not like Satin sheets nor do I like flannel ones.  These not only feel silky on my feet and legs, but when I turn over in bed, they do not "drag" on my nightie.

As for the Forever Comfy cushion and the My Pillow--please do not waste your money.  The cushion went flat after a few weeks and will not plump back up and the My Pillow?  I was dragged into buying when the inventor said it would help with neck and back pain.  I got the standard/Queen size and it is small.  It took me a long time to get use to it and I'd wake during the night, struggling to make it conform to the position I wanted.  In about 2 weeks, I found my neck, shoulder and back pain to be much worse.  It started getting deformed--the instructions said to "refluff" it and to make the guarantee effective, to wash and dry it.  Well--let me tell you--you need to take it to a laundromat and use one of the bigger machines to wash it.  When I pulled it wet from the washer, it was a sopping lumpy mess.  I put it in the dryer and it took forever to dry.  There were stains on the cover--the smell was terrible.  I never could get it back to its original shape, so I threw $70.00+ worth of foam in the trash can. I tried to contact the company via e-mail.  No way to contact them--just great!! 

Also--I did not buy it because it is so expensive, but the No No hair remover?  I was told by a few ladies that if you use it on your face--especially your upper lip, it will burn your skin.  I didn't think that it was worth nearly $300.00 for that.  I can buy a small tube of Nair facial hair remover and a nice big tube of Veet Shower hair removal for my legs for less then $10.00.

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I have a question?  Why is it that when one battery operated apparatus needs new AA batteries and you are all out--that 3 or 4 more apparatus' die within the day?  First my camera--then my inside weather station, then the TV remote, and the automatically room deodorizer.  Of course, it was on my list to buy a big pack of AA batteries when I went to the store the other day.  On the TOP of my list, in big letters.  Of course, I forgot to get them!

Hey--lookey here--I got my Subway I couldn't get yesterday!!

Two meals for $6.00

...and, I thought if was Saturday until noon--when Pearl called me and we talked a bit.  GEEZ!!!

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Kind of sad today--missing Freddy.  It always happens when I sit down to watch the Tiger Baseball games. We never missed a one.  Yelled at the players--cheered the players--groaned when Valverde came out to pitch--Freddy sitting there in his Brandon Inge shirt and me in my Granderson shirt.  I don't miss Fred for the help he could do around here, because the last couple of years, he really couldn't help.  I DO miss his cooking and I DO miss his loving to go grocery shopping.  He'd fill up that dang motorized cart he had to take, until the silly thing would barely move to get up to the check-out lane.  Then when he got home, he'd carry in all the groceries.  I couldn't with my bad hip--it might take him an hour, with rests in between loads, but he always kept on until he got it all in. Then I'd put it away. 

I just found a widow's blog.  Her hubby died the same month as Fred.  I love the way she writes.  She has that sort of weird, at times morbid sense of humor that I have and so enjoy.  She and I seem to be doing pretty well--compared to some on the Widow's Speak Up blog I use to read, until it depressed me so much I had to stop!  Some of them have made their sorrow a career, it seems to me.  We have few years left--we can't undo what has happened to us.  We need to find what joy there is left in our lives!!

She wrote--"something is missing"--yeah--I can relate to that!!

Rain, Rain, Go Away..We Have Had Enough Today

Today's temperature was: 82 degrees

Today's humidity was: 67%

Sunny, T-storms, sunny, rain, sunny T-storms.
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There is a cold front coming through later (YAY), thus the thunder storms preceding it.  

This late afternoon

Coming down hard!

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I got up fairly early, from an all night sleep, did a few of my morning chores and headed up to Pearls'.   

"What are YOU doing here," she asks.

"Well...what a nice greeting!"

"No...last night you said you weren't going to be around today because you were meeting your cousin and your sister for lunch."

"Oh yeah.  I forgot I told you that.  My cousin and her daughter were in Fort Wayne yesterday, they stopped at a restaurant before they started home and almost three hours later, my cousin realized she had left her purse in the booth.  So--they turned around and drove all the way back."

"Had it been turned in?"

"Nope.  Cousin asked at the front and it had not been turned in, but...the girl went to the booth they were in and...there was her purse."

"Wow--not a very busy restaurant."

"Anyway...it was too late to start home so they just got a room and came back this morning.  She was too exhausted to do lunch, so............that's why I'm here, but I will leave if I am bothering you."

"Get your skinny behind in here...I need help with the labels I am trying to do."

So we went back to her bedroom and the computer.

"Look at this," she says and holds up a page of labels--all off center--way off in the margins.

"What happened?"

"I don't know."

I go into Word and the label page and notice she has a different label size template.  "Remember I told you to look on the label to see what size to use?  You just used the wrong label template is all."

"I think I can use some of them.  I can cut out the little part that is on the next label and then paste them together on the envelope."

I picked up the label page she had printed out and wadded it up.  You should have seen the look on her face.  It was priceless.

"Those cost money!"

"I will give you a new sheet.  Now, get over in this chair and we are going step-by-step and make a new page of labels."

...and we did.  Then she wanted to know how to scan a photograph.  So I showed her that and how to save it and how to send it to her daughter on Face Book.    By then, it was noon, so I scooted home.

I watched the weather report, threw in a load of laundry, watched my Soap while I cross stitched, turned on the dishwasher, separated my tops in the closet by color, sorted out my DVS and put them in their new storage boxes all labelled and in the bottom of the TV armoire. 

I sat back down to watch the baseball game and the thunder started.  Put my ear plugs in and waited.  The sun came back out, so I unplugged my ears, put away laundry, the thunder started again, so I put the plugs back in--on and on for over two hours.

Just about the time I wanted to go out to get a Subway, we had a gully washer.  BUT--there were severe storms south of me and north of me, none here, Thank You Lord! A lot of flooding.  The road in front of my park--the main road to get anywhere, is called Grand River Road.  This evening, it had turned into THE Grand River.

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Something happened today that not only was weird, but kind of scary.  A month ago, I bought a white, a pink and a navy blue T-shirt.  I have wanted a navy one and could not find any last summer, so was glad to find one, that fit and I could afford.

Today, while I was arranging my tops, I wondered where the navy one was.  I knew I hadn't worn it--thought the tag was still on it.  I pulled everything off the closet floor, assuming it had fallen off the hanger.  Nope--but I did collect my four travel bags and going to put them in storage.

I called Pearl and told her and she suggested that because of the cool/hot weather we had--when one day we'd wear t'shirts and the next day, sweatshirts, that it had gotten hung up with the sweatshirts.

Back to the closet, where I pulled everything out from front to back.  No navy t-shirt.

I was doing laundry and putting my tops and pants away.  The last load was a pair of blue jeans and a pair of navy shorts.  When I pulled them from the dryer---there was the navy t-shirt.

Okay--what is scaring me is---I DO NOT remember wearing that shirt last week.  I did not wear it to the dentist on Wednesday, I did not wear it on my birthday.  When did I wear that damn thing?  Why can't I remember?  I DO remember wearing two different pairs of white shorts last week--one to my birthday.  Apparently I wore the navy shirt when I wore the other pair of white shorts?

My mind has always been sharp--my memory amazing to a lot of people and now---I can't even remember what I wore?

As I was picking things up in the bedroom, I found the tag off the shirt laying on top of my dresser.

Spooky and I DO NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT!!!

Then Pearl called.  "Did you take the labels home with you?"

"No.  They are sitting on your window ledge back by the computer."

"Well--I've looked everywhere in that bedroom and they aren't there.  Are you sure you didn't take them?"

"I'm positive.  They are sitting between your monitor and your printer."

"NO THEY AREN'T!  I am standing right here and they are no where to be seen!"

"Did you use them after I left?"

"No.  I was stacking stuff up and.....wait a minute."  Silence on the phone as I hear her walking.

"I found them."

Where?"

"On the washer."

"The WHERE?"

"Never mind....bye."

At 8:00, Dar called and asked if I would take her up to the gas station to get some cigarettes.  It had quit raining, so---why not.

She got in the car and proceeded, for the two miles there, to tell me of her horrid week at work.  

"I tell you...I am so on the ball that management comes to me with THEIR problems.  I could run that place blind folded!  It's a good thing I'm there or that place would fall apart.  So..I am really acting manager, but not getting paid for it.  Oh well, I wouldn't want that responsibility."

We get in the gas station, she pulls out her charge card to pay for two packs of ciggies.

"Why don't you let me pay for them--you can pay me back and not put them on your charge."

"This isn't my charge.  I threw it away in the garbage yesterday--my daughter got the number. This is my debit card."

"Ah...look at the card.  It is a charge card from the bank...I have one just like it."

"OH MY GOD...I THREW AWAY THE WRONG CARD!!!"

All the way home she just went on and on.  I told her to call the bank and get a new debit card--no big deal.  Then I giggled and giggled.  I told her about my navy t-shirt and Pearl's labels and said, "You have made me feel a whole lot better.  Obviously we ALL are losing our minds!!!  It must be a "seventy" thing."

She was not amused.  LOL.

Wait until I tell Pearl!

Warm Wednesday

Today's temperature was: 83 degrees

Today's humidity was: 69%

Sunny, muggy, yucky.

Hey--my ancestor's came from northern Germany--we are fair skinned, blue eyed, blonde's.  We do not suffer the heat and humidity very well.  I do not sweat, so the heat builds up inside and causes nausea, dizziness, and headache.  I had a heat stroke when I was 15--very sick in bed for three days.  Since then, the heat has really bothered me.  I think I would be far better living in Alaska.  I suppose that is why I always feel better in fall and winter?  I don't start wearing a coat outside until January and only then, if is below 32 degrees.

Enough said about that!

So this morning I didn't even open my eyes until 10:00 and only then because cats were playing "ruffly-tuffly" on the bed.  When I got up, they kept softly nipping my ankles as I got their food for them.  I wonder--if I died in the middle of the night, would they snack on me for food?

I don't really like to get up that late because I am still trying to wake up by noon.  I did manage to get the bed made and the litter box cleaned by noon--then watched the news and my Soap.  Then I got motivated and went into town to get supplies.

I saw Pearl in the grocery store!  She had been to get her hair cut and stopped on her way home.  I came around the corner by the lunch meat and she was coming right at me.  We both, kind of jumped and then stopped, then laughed.  

"I thought you looked familiar," she said.

"Did you get your labels."  I have been giving her lessons on how to use Word on her computer.

"No--I don't know where they keep them in this store.  Where are you heading?"

"Well, I was just heading to produce to get a bag of sweet cherries.  The labels are way back in the farthest corner of the store."

"Ohhhh, I can't walk back that far," she whined.

"Tell you what--you get a bag of cherries when you go to produce and I will walk back there and get the labels--I need some too.  Then I will come down when we get home and we can divide our loot."

"Okay Chickie," she says and off we go in different directions.

I had already been in that part of the store looking for plastic storage boxes and yard waste bags, but I headed back.  My back was screaming and I just said, "Shut up--walking is good for you!"

I got her labels and checked out and...got home a half hour before she did!  She must have only started her shopping when I met her in the store.

I unloaded, put away, sat down for a bit and then checked to see if I could see her car.  She was home.

Walked down and got half a bag of sweet cherries and gave her half a pack of the labels.  Bah Dah Boom, Bah Dah Bing!

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One of my many projects--I have two file records storage boxes (from my days as a sexretary), filled with VHS tapes.  I have no VHS player--used to, don't anymore.  I have slowly been buying some of those favorite movies on Amazon.com in a DVD format.  Yesterday, I decided that the VHS were going to Salvation Army.  Today, I got two plastic storage boxes--the smallish ones, and put the DVD's in them.  They had been sitting in the TV armorie, stacked up next to the DVD player and I didn't like the looks of that.  I put certain movies in each box, in alphabetical order and labelled them, i.e. Classics and Award Winners, Religious and family, Military, Musical, Kids. I am thinking of also making a list of each movie in each box and sticking that to the lid too. 

Did I heard someone mention OCD?

Tomorrow, I am going in my clothes closet and arrange all my T-shirts and tops by color.  It is such a mish-mash in there with warmish clothes mixed in with summer clothes.

Hey--it is too hot to be outside playing, so I have to think of things to do inside.  Don't judge me, LOL.

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T-Shirt commented yesterday that perhaps I had a flare up of diverticulitis.  The minute I read that, I thought, "Yepper, bet it was."  I have had minor bouts with that sort of thing off and on for a lot of years.  The pain usually was on my right side--this time on my left.  Probably have a new pocket in there or something. Weird though, as I didn't eat anything different on Monday.  Who knows.  For now, it's gone.

See ya later...........

YUCK!!!

Today's temperature was: 80 degrees

Today's humidity was: 55%

Rain in a.m., sunny with a breeze, cloudy in evening.

I woke up in the middle of the night, not feeling well.  A little pain in my right side and kind of nauseated.   I  did a "plop, plop, fizz, fizz" and went back to sleep.  I had my alarm set for 7:30.

I woke up and felt worse.  The pain was kind of dull and right under my right rib-cage.  I walked around for awhile, drank my usual morning cup of warm cocoa and took my morning meds.

My best friend Bethie's only sister passed away last week and I wanted to attend her funeral.  It was about an hour's drive north and I would have to leave at 9:30 for visitation and the funeral.

I just felt rotten.  I didn't know if it was my gall bladder or my colon--but something in there hurt.  I have never had a gall bladder attack, as far as I know.  I do have kidney gravel that passes occasionally and I know that hurts like heck, but this didn't feel that sharp.  

I laid back down, on my left side and fell asleep and didn't wake up until almost 10:00.  The pain was still there and I felt sick to my stomach, but not as bad as earlier.  Too late to call Bethie and tell her I wasn't coming.

I got dressed and cleaned out the cat's litter box and sat down in my chair and read for awhile.  Then fell back alseep again.  About noon, I got that bad feeling and rushed into the bathroom and had explosive diarrhea (I know--too much information!)  I had diarrhea off and on for another hour and then--I felt better.

I have no idea what that was all about!  I'm glad I didn't try and go to the funeral--I would have been in big trouble!!!

I've just sort of sat around all day--haven't even gone out to get my mail.  Don't feel sick--just tired and kind of tummy yucky, sort of a headache.

I haven't been anywhere since last Friday, so I don't think I had a virus, but who knows!

So-what did you do today.  Hope the day was better then mine!!!

Too Late--Too Early

Today's temperature was:   88 degrees

Today's humidity was:  45%

Sunny and way too hot

I could not sleep last night, so at around 3:00, I got up and sat, in the dark, in the computer room.  That Super Moon was at just the right angle that it came in the front window.  I just sat there and enjoyed the moonbeams--of course I had been out earlier to howl at that beautiful moon.  

I have always loved the moon.  Perhaps because I was born on a night of a full moon?  I don't know.  In my childhood home, the moon shown in my bedroom window.  In my farm house, the moon shone in my bedroom window on my face!!!  When I was designing my little country home (which never happened), the house faced east and I had the master bedroom on the south-west corner so the moon would shine in the south window early in the night and later, in the west window.

I just looked up and there it is again tonight.  Off to the south-east right now.

I knew it was going to be very hot today and I wanted to water my gardens this morning, so I set my alarm for 7:00.  I hit snooze every 9 minutes until 8:00 and then staggered out of bed.  Fed the cats, grabbed my snaky, wiggly, green hose and got everything all watered.

Then, Pearl came down.  She wanted to order some of the fantastic Egyptian Cotton sheets I was telling you about, but she couldn't figure out how to do it.  So I ordered them from my computer.

I ate a half sandwich, watched my soaps and then headed across the road to the nursery.

Those (once) beautiful Rosea Vinca I planted, because I couldn't get Impatiens, are not doing well.  They haven't grown--they haven't filled in--their leaves look like they had been bitten by frost--which I knew couldn't be.

I grabbed three of them out of the railing planters, put them in a bag, took my garden file with my receipts and headed over to Bordine's.

The girl looked them over.  Checked them, under the microscope for mites and declared, "I think they have been watered too much.  They like to dry out between waterings."

"Well that's weird," I said.  "I am noted for not watering my plants like I should.  Usually they get all droopy from dryness. But, I did use the Moisture Control soil, so maybe, that held too much water?"

So--I got NO money back--my mistake for over watering I guess.

So I just bought another kind of Rosea Vinca, larger plants, trailing plants, guaranteed to fill up the boxes with masses of color.  (We'll see).

Came home, planted them--took me all of 20 minutes, up on the shady, cool porch, and I was sweating like a hog. (Hogs don't sweat do they.)  The humidity was so high!!!

I quickly got my chores done and back into the nice 74 degree, air cooled, dry house.

That lily I was telling you about, next to the front porch steps--is nearly 4 feet high.  Amazing!!!

Tonight, I worked on a friend's family tree--such fun.  I got way back to the 1600's.

I waited for the predicted severe thunderstorms to roll in--some went north of me--some went south.  I was glad.

Tonight I watched the new TV series entitled, "Under The Dome".  I have read the Stephen King book a couple of years ago, so I am anxious to see if the series is as good as the book.

I am just about ready to crawl into those wonderful new sheets.  They are the softest, smoothest things I have ever slept in.  There is no "drag", when I move around.  It seems I can even turn over easier.  I love them.

That's all I got--

See ya tomorrow.  Jude

Too Hot For Me!

Today's temperature was: 89 degrees

Today's humidity was:  54%

Heat Index: 93 degrees

Sunny & breezy

Not much today---

Dar came over and wanted to know if I saw everyone at her place yesterday and how the "kids" built her a raised flower bed.  (Kids she works with.)  "They now think of me as their Mom and I told them what I wanted and they offered to build it for me."

I said, "Why did they build it on the driveway instead of where it was to be placed?"

"Oh--I know.  I was inside with the air on--I didn't realize what they were doing."

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Pearl came down.  

"Did you see what was going on across the street yesterday?  She sat inside all afternoon--I never saw her come out once to offer them a drink--nothing.  Then she had to get her neighbors to help move the thing.  Did you see that old guy out there--he about fell over trying to lift that thing!"

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Then an hour later, Dar came back.

"Oh my God it feels so good in here.  Do you have the air on?"

"Yes."

"I just won't run the air in my place--I have to save on electricity.  I am use to the heat.  I use to live in a Tropical Zone."

"I thought you lived in Greece."

"I did.  It's in the Tropical Zone."

"Really?  I thought it was in a Temperate Zone."

"Oh no.  Tropical--the Mediterrian is all Tropical Zone countries."

"Really.  I had no idea."

"Well--I just came over to get cool and have a smoke and bring back your DVD. See ya."

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I did step outside, after watching the Tiger's ballgame and taking a 45 minutes nap, and this is what I found.

The Sweetest Day lilies that Freddy got me every year are so beautiful this year.  The one in the second picture--by the front porch steps is taller then I have ever seen it.  I have six lily plants he gave me.  The one by the bottom of the porch steps is a really pretty dark reddish pink when it blooms, plus I have two Star Gazers that haven't bloomed yet--they smell soooooo good!

Front garden

Garden by porch steps

I have to recommend a site to you.  I purchased a set of sheets from them and here is my review!

www.nomorerack.com.  A heavily discounted shopping site--it was advertized on Face Book.  A queen size set of Egyptian Cotton sheets, with four pillowcases for the price of $29.99.  I figured they'd be cheaply made.  I have one set of sheets.  I take them off the bed, wash and dry them, put them back on.  I got them when I moved in here 10 years ago--750 thread count--cost nearly $100.00.

I got these cheap sheets yesterday--put them on the bed and--THEY ARE FANTASTIC!!!  I have never felt anything quite as smooth, and sumptuous.  The price inside the manufacturers package was listed at $149.99.  They have a lot of fantastic brand name items on this site.  Some are only available for a few hours or days.  I firmly recommend this site if you are looking for values.

http://www.nomorerack.com/daily_deals/view/352313-6_piece_set__ultra_soft_egyptian_comfort_1600_series_bed_sheets

They even came in a beautiful heavy plastic pouch, reinforced with wires on each side and with a pretty white tassel.  Which---I can use at a later date to package a baby afghan in for a gift.

Sometime, during the night, this happened.  The clothes rod over the washer/dryer came down, clanging on the metal appliances.  This has happened before and scared the heck out of me.  Last night--I heard nothing.  I discovered it when I woke up--a mere 8 steps away from my pillow.  I credit my new sumptuous sheets with allowing me to sleep so soundly, LOL

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Tonight, I watched the Wallenda dude walk the tightrope over the Grand Canyon.  They had it on the Discovery Channel--I saw that the program started at 8:00 and ended at 10:00--the first part was all set-up. So I popped a movie in the DVD and watched until 9:50.  Then turned on the channel  

He made it.  Praising God all the way.  Thanking Jesus.  Personally--I don't care what religion you are or how much faith you have--God gave you life.  Jesus told you to enjoy the life you have been given--to respect your life--to respect the temple of your body.  I am certain God and Jesus were watching him and discussing something like---

"Will you look at that idiot!  I gave him life."  

"I know Father.  I died so he could have and enjoy his life."

"Now he's down there, putting on a big show.  Calling out our names loudly--like the Pharisees do.  He must be related to Dar!"

"Oy Vey."

"He certainly isn't showing much respect for the life I gave him."

"Should we like...sway the cable a bit?"

"No--the idiot might fall and then all the people watching would say that we don't exist.  I gave him a brain--too bad he doesn't use it."

and then Jesus said, "Forgive them Father.  They don't realize how stupid they are."

That's all I got!!!  See ya tomorrow--suppose to be 90+ here--Oy Vey!!