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Celebrate your accomplishments today! Ta Da!

Back from England and Scotland. We were supposed to be home on 4th of July but original flight cancelled and replacement flight had issues and they had to get new plane which delayed 3 hours making us miss connection so we were put up in airport in Philidephia late on 4th. Got home at 4 pm on the 5th. Torally missed fireworks and parades. It was storming when we landed in philly. First night home went to bed by 9 and I got up at 3 to take MS to airport and spent day doing shopping for my friend, had a massage and watched completion of a series I started on flight and ate junk food. Fell asleep at 7:30 pm and slept for 9.5 hours. Feel much better. Today going to Y for class, need to fill pill boxes, go through mail and pay bills and want to go to farmers market at 4 to 7. Look through fridge and plan some meals and maybe get some things from store. Need to get head back on to calendar.

No more big trips until 2027. We will do some family traveling and long weekends stateside. We have 4 international trips planned next year and many stateside ones. DH retires Dec 31, he added a 4th location last night. We are traveling about 1/3 of 2027, that is going to feel intense. It has been the plan. We had the best 2.5 weeks this time. We did the canal boat with my sister and her husband and there 2 friends for a record heat week in England, we manned 137 locks in 1 week. We did the longest staircase in Uk. Then we spent 4 nights in Scotland and 2 nights near London and 1 night in Cotswald area and 1 night in Wirksworth. Saw 2 great plays, went to church for 5 different services in 4 different churches, ate some great food and saw some gorgeous scenery and drove close to 1000 miles. Spent 2 of the night with family friends too. Slept in 7 different beds. Did a couple photo shoot, ate 4 Sticky Toffee puddings and discovered pourable custard. Wow. I think I even lost weight. Walked so many miles and took several hundred pics. Many are shared on fb page.

I love England and I could totally live in Scotland. But now it is time to get back to responsibilities and figure out what retirement looks like. The boys did a great job on house. I kind of freaked out when on the ring camera I saw fire men leaving our house. They thought they smelled gas. It was fine, everything checked out.

Hope you all have been well and the heat of summer is bearable.

Need to read back and catch up.

Hi Costumelady! Welcome back! Thanks for starting us off today.

I have some errands to run (bank/Costco/grocery store and pharmacy) plus the grass really needs to be cut. It was very foggy here overnight.

Dh had a rough night with confusion. Doctor told dh to lower his insulin by 20 units. I'm certain dh lowered it more than that. There was no sugar crash, but he's not feeling great today.

Tonight will be leftover Indian food.

Good morning

Costumelady - Welcome home! I love hearing about your adventures.

Mystery - Will the driving school include driving test and license?

We had a busy evening with 2 different groups coming for a visit. We received a gift of couple dozen big home grown tomatoes.

DS17 was pulled over by the highway patrol last night and got his first ticket for not wearing a seatbelt. Hopefully, this will encourage him to buckle up from now on.

When I went outside this morning, I found that DH had left the water hose running full blast all night. Next month water bill is not going to be pleasant.

I love having a dozen or so people in our home and the joy of interacting & sharing of friendship is a treasure. However, it is also a bit chaotic and things that I meant to do fall through the cracks. All in all, a busy home is absolutely a positive, I just need to acknowledge to myself that it is okay to not check the water hose, not get my steps in, not finish the laundry, etc. Being with family & friends is more important.

Today is a fresh start.

sorry he got a ticket d lady -
sorry the water was let on -
oh my goodness how wonderful to be able to share the joy of gathering together!

welcome home costume lady

hello d harriet

hello d cathy

hello d all.

I spent the day finishing hanging my mom's mural of her sister walking in the woods as a head board. the room is done and the builders are done.
mom slept in there all night - the bed is still a little high for me to put her in but I am trying to figure it out. dd's can do it.

waving at all of you!

time for one room at a time.
meds taken
mom's meds ready

home grown tomatoes

I just checked my records and my first tomato of this season was harvested May 27th. We are in overload mode now where friends/family are giving away the abundance of their garden vegetables. Peppers, squash, cucumbers and watermelons are in abundance also with friends posting daily that they put extra homegrown vegetables in front of their home by the road and asking people to please come help themselves. I have 3 cookie sheets stacked high with tomatoes sitting on our kitchen counters waiting for me to process them. My future self will appreciate having them to also enjoy during the winter months.
Okra is the missing vegetable in my garden - I didn't get it planted soon enough so it will be weeks before it starts producing. I need to let friends know that I'll take all the extra okra they have.

I've been in problem solving mode....
** DH took apart his CPAP machine when he lost his memory. We sat down together and figured how to get all the pieces and parts put back together and fit them to his head.
** Notice from bank of insufficient funds. I text DD15 letting her know to deposit money NOW. Then I realized that it was the bank that DS17 uses. Wrong kid. Got with DS17 and it wasn't insufficient funds but a mix up of check that wasn't deposited correctly. ANYway - it is all good now.
** I had a stack of doctor & dentist appointment cards to enter on calendar. Got those 9 appointments added.
** DH took apart the charging cables for his phone, smartwatch, and blood sugar tester. I spent some time finding all the pieces and parts and got them reassembled.
** Took hoses apart and connected them to the correct water spigots. Why DH changed these is unknown. These hoses & spigots are on different accounts, so it matters unless we want to start pay for watering a dozen cattle. That would be an extra 11k gallons of water on our monthly water bill. No thank you.
** Made DH a lunch plate - Brisket, sausages, chicken breast, mac & cheese and potato salad.

CI / I'm alive .... achy had a mild leg cramp in the nite & my shoulder woke me up bc of pain.
It's an old injury from when I dumped my 75 Yamaha bike was alone and happened when I picked it up.
I was a new rider. Mostly just embarrassed the beginning of our empty next years.
I need to hydrate.

On our walk saw a doe with two fawns & 2 more big deer in the field.
I've picked apples for goats, deer & squirrels. Details in garden thread.

Now I"m resting.
Not sure what's next.
Figure out meals for today.
Cooked cabbage salsa & egg with cake for bfast.
cottage cheese & tomato slice from the store.
Dinner TBA. I have options.
Did my journals & qt
reading next up.

Waving to everyone!