I'll definitely check in when I get home. I am so glad that tree didn't attack your house!

I'm home, safe and sound! The rain stopped by the time I got off.



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Work. Nap. Errands. Inventory masks & gloves; plan accordingly. Gaze at recently improved porch, dining room, kitchen, and living room. They are nearly normal again (whatever that is). Aaaaaaahhhhh.....

Came back from Dr.'s office and pharmacy....changed clothes and wiped myself down. Too lazy to shower.

Always feel scared after going out, but esp. from a doctor's office.

Taking meds later and going to bed!

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Seems to be a duvet day, so far.
Maybe I'll clean the house. Maybe the couch will win.

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Making a 'baseball themed' dinner (sausage, chili fries, and cole slaw just to say there's something healthy, peanuts) in honor of the first MLB game of the year.

Kathy, that sounds so fun!

Yep, and I forgot to add that the fries and peanuts are compliments of my Five Guys phone-in shop today. Since I didn't have to sit in the restaurant for 15 minutes I could eat the burger and ignore the rest :-)

@HonnyBrown wrote:

Kathy, that sounds so fun!

Got home from my 3 day stay visiting with my son, DIL and 2 precious grandchildren. My granddaughter, who is 4 1/2, knew I would be leaving today. So when she got up this morning, she sat on the couch and the first thing she said to me was, "Grandma, I miss you already!" Awww....so sweet!! Hopefully I'll go up again in a few months.

Tomorrow, when I clean my kitchen, I'm going to clean out my fridge. This will be the perfect time to try out my food processor to cut up the dated carrots and celery for stock.

My car is so quiet with the muffler. I thought something was wrong with it!

I went to McDonald's. My husband wanted a couple of double cheeseburgers. Unknown to me, the place was under renovation. The play place was torn down, the lot was torn up, and all four walls were surrounded by scaffolding. There were traffic cones, but it was not clear where the line was. I wondered why people on foot, wearing safety vests, boots, and hardhats were walking up to the window of the store and being served while I waited in line. I saw debris falling from the work being done above by workers on scaffolding, onto people below, wearing hardhats. Then, I realized that these people were team members.

There was no speaker or menu board. Twenty some minutes after joining what I thought was the line, my order was finally taken by a guy who approached my car. He was wearing a headset. For payment, I verbally provided my credit card number. I was handed a receipt by the order taker. I was wearing a mask and gloves and had sanitizer in the console. He was wearing a mask. The receipt was wrong from the get go. After paying and receiving the receipt, I told the order taker that it was not my order. He directed me to pull forward to the next person.

I told her that the receipt was not what I ordered. Fast forward after the next several minutes of clearing things up. Bottom line is that whatever the associates were being paid, working outside in ninety-plus degrees, while building particles falling from above rained down on them and their hardhats, was not enough.

Yikes about McD's! Is someone paying the team members hazard pay for working in those conditions?

Today was all about work and the hand/wrist. Recently, it froze in mid-air. I intended to set a coffee cup gently on a table. The cup crashed, broke, and spilled coffee. Today, it can handle the small task with some support from the left hand/wrist. Weird. Tomorrow, the early job is the toughest day of the week for the hand/wrist (though still an easy job). so I will rest, elevate, and ice it today.

Went with Hubby to get our August election mail-in ballots notarized. For several reasons we went to a location across town from us (close to where Hubby had grown up), then drove through the surrounding area while he reminisced. When we got to the highway he mentioned at cool Route 66 marker he had heard about, so we drove just over the Illinois line to a bridge that you can now walk across. Drove home a meandering route that took us over the Mississippi River close to downtown and eventually got back home.

I had a good day today. Nothing special happened. I was just happy .

Work. The deep stretching workout. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh....... . Gather donateable stuff.



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Two grocery stores today. The second will be to pick up items that Aldi's doesn't carry.

Aldi, wine store, finishing a report, laundry, 2020 tax planning.

Hah! A new thing!

I posted before reading op-ed. All entries are useful, but two especially stand out in the covid era. One writer wants madatory masks in the school district. The other lists journal references and findings summaries for several studies or articles which indicate that masks might not stop or prevent spread to any great extent.

So my new thing to do is try to track down the articles and at least a few of their references.

Mind you, I will always wear a mask when a location requires it This is respectful in their direction. And to respect my budget, I need to know whose or which information regarding masks is correct. This information will inform my purchase and work choices.

I bought a food chopper from Aldi's yesterday and broke it today trying to chop carrots. The plastic base cracked.

My salad was very pretty! All the veggies were the same shape and size.

Can you take it back, Honny? Doesn't seem right that it should crack just because of the carrots.

Yes. Aldi's is one of the few stores that takes returns. I'd much rather exchange it than clean it. The base isn't critical to using the chopper, and I applied a LOT of pressure to chop the carrots.

I chopped carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers and onions in the food chopper. I still had to use my knife to trim the veggies, except for the baby carrots. I loved the fact that the veggies were all the same size and shape. The onions, I used the dicing attachment. The bell pepper did not cut all the way through.

Cooked a couple of pounds of black eyed peas in the Instant Pot. Divided into containers for future use....one for tomorrow's dinner, the rest in the freezer.

Made eggplant parmesan in my instapot yesterday. So easy and none of the dipping, breading and fatty frying. Sauce is thin, but I poured most of it out and replaced with jarred Barilla Roasted Garlic tomato sauce.

I took it easy today after suffering a heat stroke yesterday. I was foolish enough to take a walk in the forest park with 90 F outside. To add to my stupidity, I washed my hair when I came back and had lunch. It was just bouts of vomiting till 2:30 in the morning. Luckily, this happens every year once and was not COVID.

Mum! Take it easy, please!

Work. Check the news periodically because it should be presented as the wastrel vs. the thrifty version of HEALS. Who will prevail? Frugality will prevail (in reality and when people necessarily spend less). But in the political arena, what will happen? When not enjoying that wrangling, I will work on projects and read a little more of a very long book.

Wow...you get heat stroke every year? That's pretty dangerous. I'm glad you are okay now, but please, take it easy.

@Mum wrote:

I took it easy today after suffering a heat stroke yesterday. I was foolish enough to take a walk in the forest park with 90 F outside. To add to my stupidity, I washed my hair when I came back and had lunch. It was just bouts of vomiting till 2:30 in the morning. Luckily, this happens every year once and was not COVID.

What book are you reading?
I am reading Quentins by Maeve Binchy
I am listening to Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
And on my phone, I have The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. I keep a book on my phone to read when I am awake in the night.
But no reading today. House guests are arriving.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

..... work on projects and read a little more of a very long book.

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Has anybody here used a vegetable spiralizer? My mom gave me one called Veggeti Power but I haven't opened it yet.

@Mum wrote:

I took it easy today after suffering a heat stroke yesterday.

Hope you are feeling better today, Mum. Please take it easy in this heat!

I am reading 'In My Time' by Dick (and Liz) Cheney. It opens with his description of 9/11 events as they unfolded where he was and describes what people who hunkered/bunkered with him were doing in response to no, little, and eventually more information. The anniversary of that is less than two months away, and it seemed good to get a reminder of why it not a good to wage international (9/11) and domestic (rioters now) terrorist attacks on the good ol' USA.

Your reading list sounds wonderful. Enjoy your house guests!

@prince wrote:

What book are you reading?
I am reading Quentins by Maeve Binchy
I am listening to Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
And on my phone, I have The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. I keep a book on my phone to read when I am awake in the night.
But no reading today. House guests are arriving.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

..... work on projects and read a little more of a very long book.

@HonnyBrown Not a heatstroke, but usually something or the other can get me vomiting for about 12 hours. I have pretty bad headaches caused sometimes by the heat and sometimes even the cold gets me.

@roflwofl I bought it once and returned it the same day. It was a pain and a hassle to use it, clean it and what not. The spiralizer worked well for carrots but other than that, really rough and uneven peelings. The blade is super dangerous. The youtube tutorial didn't help. Maybe you will have better luck but it didn't work for me.