My itchy dog woke me early this morning at 4:30. I made him a beauty appt for Oct 11th (after camping on the beach!) but I forgot to make a vet appt about his itchy skin and a teeth cleaning. Poor guy. We went back to his usual food and that helped a lot but he's still scratching more than he should. I'm pretty certain he doesn't have fleas. If he does, then we're wasting a lot of money on his flea meds!
I got all the laundry done yesterday and then Bill brought 2 loads home from Ernie's - mostly towels that were laying around the bathroom. Sigh. I also got a few more sections of my giant recipe box culled. I'm giving my rejects to my walking buddy, Lori. She loves looking through recipes.
Today - hmmmm.... No real plan yet but will probably purge a few more recipes, clean my sewing room, do the kitchen floor, go to chiropractor, drop off a couple boxes of donations for the thrift shop, and maybe read a little out on the deck. A hodge podge of small activities.
MARY ROSE - I buy canned chilies when I need to. Better than no chilies! Our stores here often have fresh Hatch chilies in the produce section when in season. I just buy a few pounds at a time. One store sells them by the big box. But they ain't cheap!
CHICKIE - what a fun festival you attended! Nice that the younger generation went with you. They have a fun energy. So sad about the boy who died in the heat. I don't know why they insist on such physical activity in such extreme heat. You will have that baby cow quilt wrapped up in no time. Then what?? I gave Autumn my little travel Janome last winter after I bought my new Bernie. So now she has TWO machines and STILL doesn't sew! lol! To be fair, she truly has no time, but even if she did, she probably wouldn't. What is happening when you lose your post? You already know to double check after you hit SUBMIT to make sure it posted, right? Sometimes, my finger will hit either some key I didn't intend or two keys at once and the post I'm working on goes POOF. If I hit ctrl and Z it will bring it back. Try it next time.
BECCA - Have you had any effects of Dorian where you live? I hope all your family is OK. You had a busy morning yesterday and still planned to do floors! What a woman you are! You wear me out! I wish we had a lighter weight vacuum. My back doesn't even like the Swiffer, let alone the 30# vacuum. Bill is supposed to be in charge of vacuuming because he insisted we buy that vacuum (against my objections!), but you can probably guess how that goes.
Did the little ones visit yesterday or are they coming today? They sound like sweeties! IRISH - I actually have been to PA three times. Bill was was sent to a conference in Philadelphia once, so we did all the Philly stuff we had time for - Liberty Bell, Ben Franklin's grave, Independence Hall, and more. In 1997 we drove across the state and into NY on a genealogy quest. It was a fast trip. My dad's family are all in PA and NY. Only my Grandpa moved west.
In 2002 we drove through in our "Big Retirement Trip" with our then new fifth-wheel. I must have missed the mountains, but we did see Lake Erie and met some folks at a rest stop who turned out to live across the road from us! lol! Never saw them again- there or here! Is your sister's second knee surgery scheduled yet or is that still up in the air. You get to go to all her Dr. Hunk appts, don't you?
JANA - Funny, we're doing the same thing here! I have my grandparents' trunk filled with journals, corrrespondence, pictures, and mementoes. Everything is between 80-150 yrs old. I have 3 kids and 15 nieces and nephews, and it's time to pass this trunk down. And the right place for it to go is to my niece, Carmen (Albert's DD). She's excited to get it all, my brother is excited, and I'm most excited! One more BIG thing out of my house! The only one who will be bummed is Scottie. He sleeps on top of that trunk at the foot of our bed. He loves that trunk. Poor Scottie. I told my brother maybe Scottie needs to go with his trunk! OH - and did you say there's peanut butter cookies?? . . . . I bet they are good. I really like peanut butter cookies. Tied with snickerdoodles for my second favorite, really . . . yummm... Wish I were there, standing next to your cookie jar - and you were looking the other direction . . .
I know I promised you we were eating leftovers last night, but I got corn on the cob at the store yesterday so we had chicken burgers and corn instead. So tonite I'm going to resurrect the ham/potato dish and make a big salad. I still haven't made my chili relleno casserole but it's on my radar now that I've found my recipe! This weekend . . .
What's going to fill your plate tonite?
