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Today must read again. Yesterday, started to read, but BFF called from FL and we chatted & giggled for an hour & a half and afterwards son/grandson FaceTimed me for an hour, so only got in a few chapters. Today will be very sunny, which will find me reading in my local park after Young & Restless (yesterday's episode AMAZING).

Have Telehealth meeting with therapist at 11. Been in such a good mood lately, it's frightening! That other shoe---Don't Drop!
 

Looks like no rain here until maybe the weekend.

There's nothing much on my bingo card today. Make some hummingbird nectar. Deadhead flowers. Do some weeding. Meh.

It's only Tuesday, and I'm already getting bored. I ate too much junk yesterday. It's what happens when I get bored.
 
Good morning all......I am here but not all there, you know what
I mean.....my mind is scatterbrained today, going all over the
place !!!! Pain and those issues sorta got me flamboozled today... gonna get to bank somehow cause I'm running out
of cash money to pay some folks....lawncare, mail kid, like that,,,
i have an issue that a friend brought up and I laughingly agreed
to, she wants to bring some folks to my place to celebrate my
july 85th birthday....but I've been overthinking it ever since
i agreed to it....my anxiety level is way up, cause I know I'm
not worthy of the attention, and worry about haveing stranger in this small cruddy disorganized house!!!! now what do I do?
Poor me.........later.....;):coffee:
 
hawkdon said:
Good morning all......I am here but not all there, you know what
I mean.....my mind is scatterbrained today, going all over the
place !!!! Pain and those issues sorta got me flamboozled today... gonna get to bank somehow cause I'm running out
of cash money to pay some folks....lawncare, mail kid, like that,,,
i have an issue that a friend brought up and I laughingly agreed
to, she wants to bring some folks to my place to celebrate my
july 85th birthday....but I've been overthinking it ever since
i agreed to it....my anxiety level is way up, cause I know I'm
not worthy of the attention, and worry about haveing stranger in this small cruddy disorganized house!!!! now what do I do?
Poor me.........later.....;):coffee:
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YOU ARE WORTH A BIG CELEBRATION FOR YOUR 85th BIRTHDAY!!!! You are, you are, you are! Un-anxiety yourself. Ask cleaning person to come the day before to clean bathroom and kitchen, stuff things under your bed that you think are clutter and enjoy being the birthday boy!

GG has spoken. Don't even think about defying her!
 
Spent yesterday afternoon with DDIL and family. BBQ dinner, natch. My Beyond Burger was delish. I probably eat 3 or 4 of them a year - and only to be sociable at BBQs - but greatly prefer them to veggie or bean burgers.

Lovely weather right now - throughout the next couple of weeks we'll see highs ranging from 77-82. The desert's gift of low humidity means our "feels like" temperature rarely differs from the actual temperature. For instance, this is the forecast for 3 pm today.

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For ages I’ve been donating any mason jars I had. Of course, now that I want some I rarely come across one. There‘ve been suggestions to store fresh washed fruit in mason jars. I bought some plastic lids and will be going to Goodwill to buy some jars. All my other leftovers are stored in Corning ware or similar.
 
We went to a garden center in Eire today.

Had hopes of finding a 'snowball bush'.
Does anyone know the shrub I'm taking about?
Probably has a Latin name?

We were pleased to find early strawberries , dark cherries, asparagus & peaches.
I wandered past all the flower hunting for a snowball bush.
Did find one small bush of another plant I was looking for.

Will plant it where I hope the lawn mower won't chop it off.

We looked at azaleas,, everyone on our street has them,, so I passed on them.
Same with roses, lovely to look at,, but no thanks.

On drive to & from in & out of rain.

IF the rain holds off this evening I'll be out planting.
 
We're home from town....

While driving around, we saw an incredible amount of damage and destruction from last Saturday's storms!!! I knew that it was worse in town than by us, but I didn't realize just how much worse it was!!! There were branches and debris littering the streets...power company trucks and tree service trucks were everywhere...people still didn't have electricity....whole trees were blown over or broken....it was quite a mess!!!

We saw one tree that had fallen on a house. The entire house was caved in and shifted sideways off of it's foundation!!!
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I can only hope that if anyone had been in that house, that everyone is OK!

I have some other news, too:

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When we got home today, I put Goober out by himself, for the very first time!!! (He doesn't know it, but I'm checking on him every 5 minutes, or so....just like a kid!
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) He's been out there, playing on the porch, for 2 hours!
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I guess I should go out and let Goob know that he's been a good boy! Maybe I'll get to watch a TV show and eat some of the grapes that I bought today....
 
As noted, yesterday on the holiday, I went rocky Pacific shore fishing with a bro J. A very difficult game given large amounts of underwater elements, especially seaweeds, that can snag a line. Worst are palm tree seaweeds. All told, Iost 6 weights, 5 hooks, and most bait (market white shrimp). But significantly did catch one fine female kelp greenling 13 to 14 inches long with enough flesh to make a nice meal for one person. I tossed into a small tide pool near our gear that warmed in the sun and the oxygen within of course kept lowering.

My only one bite, and J had 2 bites. Since we didn't catch enough for both to make a meal, and how I hate killing things, I decided to let the suffering creature live more days by tossing it back into the white with foam cold water with enormous amounts of oxygen due to monstrous waves crashing on rocks. That lack of catches noted, we greatly enjoyed the experience. It was to a wonderfully beautiful remote still green place with many wildflowers half a mile from the highway on a vegetation overgrown path hardly any others had used this year.

Despite hating to kill animals, I as some that occasionally eats meat including fish, yearly will fish, kill, prepare, and eat fish because I believe it is a sobering mechanism to better appreciate what we are naturally doing as Earth creatures, killing and eating other animals that unlike our ancestors, most modern people sadly never experience but ought to.
 

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