SHEs Organized

Next few Anti P. tasks done.
Mixed up two batches of bread dough and they are going to be rolls in small rounds
bagged up and in the freezer now yea!

Next item; Paint small foot stool mostly done with 1st coat waiting on it to dry.
Fan is blowing that direction.

One batch of roll dough is down stairs in the basement freezer.
Dishes are put away now. 1st coat is one now.

Had some thunder and 15 drops of rain.
dishes are put away.
Napped a bit.

Taking a break to CUOP and regroup my thoughts.

I put on a movie and started the mindless process of dealing with the massive number of ripe tomatoes that are on the countertop. I started with a goal of putting 10 bags into the freezer and I kept going until I reached that goal.

My closet floor is now clear. It is a bit embarrassing and shocking to me how much STUFF i managed to have in that space. I only open my closet door once a month or so and rarely access anything that was stacked (more like haphazardly heaped) on the floor. There were two categories of items, and I am somewhat surprised and pleased to find only those items there. I am counting that as a small Win....I am taking wins wherever I can get them. Nine pairs of shoes and boots that I haven't worn recently are now in the give-away bag. Some of the shoes had never been worn. I bought those shoes when I wanted to dress like others and before I made the decision to never have foot pain again. I know what shoes don't hurt my feet so that is all I will wear now. One category of items has been dealt with. Half done with decluttering decisions today.
The second category will be my next declutter decision session. The stack of bags are laid out so i can see them all. I haven't counted them yet but there are easily over a dozen bags of various sizes, colors, and styles. After taking a break I will start the process to choose which ones I want to keep. Baby steps.

Good Job Lady M!

I have shoes in my giveaway pile at the moment despite having given away some in the past 6 months.

The rental cottage has been a justification for having too much. I needed new sensible walking sandals this year so bought some but the old ones are up at the cottage so I don't have to carry shoes back and forth. Only my water sandals come back and forth (because they can be worn in rain here on very hot days.)

Speaking of rain, we are getting a storm right now.

I'm about to head downstairs for my chair exercise class. Should drink some water first.

I think everything is piled up now, ready to take down to the car. I even packed my clothes. Just the medicine bag and my night guard plus some jewelry are left to pack in that.

It didn't rain for too long, but the thunder and lightning was non-stop for quite a while. I won't have to water the outside flowers tonight.

We had brats, cheesy rice (from a package) and broccoli for supper. We were going to have leftover pizza from last night, but dh had a slice for lunch and he had an upset stomach all afternoon. I will have some tomorrow for my lunch.

Movie was nice, and really required very little of me. After the movie, we went to a nearby park to eat sack lunches and let the kids play for a little while. Then, the preacher asked if dgd wanted to come home with her and her grandson, who dgd had a playdate with yesterday, and of course she wanted to -- so I called ds, cleared that, and dgd rode home with them. DGS and I went back to Belk, returned a duplicate package I had received, and came back to my house. He didn't want to go home yet -- I told him I was fine with him coming to my house if he wanted to watch me nap, but that was my plan. I had only gotten about 4 hours' sleep before getting up this morning.

About 5:00, ds called and wanted to know if I wanted to eat with them tonight again, so I did that... and now I'm home.

I drove the truck around the loop that our road is on before I came inside. I try to drive it once a week.

Came in... and filled out summons for jury duty. They want me to serve "on call" in district court in September. This is 52 miles away. (They pay for hotel if you're over 50 miles away, so there's that...) As y'all might imagine, this is one of those things that brings on a panic attack with me. I have never served on jury duty. The last time I was asked to serve, I told them I was the only "caretaker" for my husband AND my mother. This time, I only have dmom depending on me... but what if she does decide to schedule the bunion surgery... besides just the normal doctor appointments that she depends on me for... AND... I have a severe fear that I might fall asleep while sitting in the jury box! I mean, it is hard for me to stay awake in church... and that's just one hour. Especially the way my sleep cycle is right now, I just do not feel capable of being able to manage this, emotionally OR physically. Not to mention my stomach situation!
Maybe I should have put all that in the request, but I figured it was best to keep it short and sweet. Sigh.
I will pray about it and try to trust that if the Lord insists I show up, He will get me through it.

We are getting a lot of rain now also. Luckily, it was clear during our time at the park, but it has been raining when I woke up the past two mornings.

Kathryn -- (((HUGS))) for your dgs AND ddil! That's a hard milestone... I still remember it well. I hope everything goes great with dgs at the cottage! It IS a chore to pack and unpack for two places. I run into that during football season. We might not spend as many nights this year though. On weekends that ds is able to go with us, he will prefer to make it a one-day trip, so he can see the local high school game on Friday nights. I just don't know how this is going to work out this year. I am not going to shed any tears if we miss a game or two, also. If they have an 11:00 a.m. game, I may just skip that. (Even when we spend Friday night, it is tough to get myself and 2 kids ready to leave the condo by 9:00/9:30, which we would want to do to beat the crowd going in.) Big sigh. This will be a hard season.

before I made the decision to never have foot pain again. I know what shoes don't hurt my feet so that is all I will wear now.

LadyM, IKWYM!!! I do NOT wear the latest fashions in footwear. I wear N*w B*llance sneakers 6 out of 7 days, and my "Sunday shoes" are either Y*llow B*x sandals or closed toe, low heeled shoes. Comfort is WAAAY ahead of stylish for me these days.
Speaking of football games -- I cannot BELIEVE the heels some college girls and even older women my age wear to games. I wouldn't be able to get to the stadium in them, much less last the whole game. (Of course, it is not unusual to see those college girls walking out barefoot, swinging their shoes in their hands.)

Waving to ALL... hope y'all have a good evening.

Ds called tonight to confirm things to pack for dgs. We've decided to cut the trip short by a day so dgs can spend an extra day with his mommy. She works until 2, will be home at 3:30 and so we'll get him for 5 so she has time for a nap before he arrives.

Ds said he fell asleep in the car after his trial run at daycare this morning so we can expect that tomorrow too. We ended up swapping out car seats and install the 'hard one' to put in because it can be reclined and dgs will sleep better in it on the way to the lake.

It rained hard while on my way to the orthotic appointment but stopped by the time we got to Costco. The parking lot and store were 'dead' because of the weather. Roads were pretty badly flooded in places. Passable but being on a bike would be very dangerous as most had 5" or more of water on them.

Dinner was a Costco chicken.

The car is loaded with 70% of our stuff. There's a lot of food so we may have to take two coolers. The issue is that the grocery store up there often runs out of milk so we have to bring a lot with us (ours plus for dgs). And we bought frozen croissants to bake up. And veggies.

I have an errand and grocery store tomorrow morning as well as finishing loading the car. From now on it should be fairly easy. I got permission to park the car at the EV charging spot but not charge so it will be handier to load than if it was at the road.

Off to bed now.

Lightening Hell : dry lightening happened tonight.
Friends up on the prarie are fighting a smallish fire in our county.
The next town got hit it is across the river and in the neighboring state.
Up river power is out for 800 in small towns.

Nancy, that sounds scary -- the lightning and fires!

We had a power outage too -- they said about 5000 houses! But ours had nothing to do with weather or anything. They put on FB that a SNAKE got into the substation main transformer or something.
When everything went dark, I realized my cell phone was almost dead and I decided to go drive around and see where all it was out. But before I got into town (just a couple miles) it came back on.
THEN I found out that apparently I'm going to need a new computer monitor.
Once again, I am sooo glad y'all encouraged me to get this Chromebook for myself last Christmas.
The monitor I'm using IS pretty old; I think it was ds's last monitor in college before he bought a laptop.

After the jury summons, and the power outage, and then the monitor going out... I was ready to scream. So I started eating. Ugh.

This has been a long day.