=19.5pxGood Morning!! It's a beautiful day here, sun is shining.  Well,  I really don't have a thing to say this morning, so will just sign off, wishing you all a wonderful day< BJ.

I can't seem to get here every day, mostly because my laptop needs charging.

Cheryl, that is wonderful news, both insurance and healthwise for Aaron! That is a huge deductible. Has he checked into different insurance plans that might be better than what he has?

Greg still has a terrible cough, but he is feeling much better. He said Carter still has a cough. He has a 3 day weekend so that will be good for him. I guess it's most likely something Carter picked up at school.

Trish, have a wonderful time. Will be waiting to hear all about it! 

Holly, can you remind me why you are going to PT? Are you sore after each visit? I had a bad month in August with weight...up and down, but mostly up. I need to remember if you bring it in the house, you're going to eat it, lol! I'm also glad to be retired. I love not being somewhere at 8 am every day. I'm not an early morning person anymore.

Patty, congratulations on the twins! No twins in my family either.

Judy, I hear what you're saying. That's why I like to use the Instant Pot. I don't have to watch it or worry about it burning, lol.  I always get anxious about any doctor appointment, even the telephone call with my oncologist this coming week.

Janet, if you think 60 degrees is freezing, you are in for a very, very cold winter, lol. Are you feeling better?

My fatigue has been better the last two days. I've only taken two of the high dosage vitamin D pills he prescribed. I take one every Friday. I have a telephone call scheduled with Dr. Qu (chemo oncologist) for Wednesday at 2:45. He's the one who prescribed the Tamoxifen and took me off it for awhile. I'm dreading it if he wants to try a different med.

Yesterday I felt like going shopping so I went to Goodwill to walk around. I love going there because they have the best air conditioning in town, lol. I found a few bargains. I got a planter stand for the front porch and 5 blue cobalt stemware glasses. These are $70 on Amazon and I got them for $5. I'm using them to decorate my table that I never eat at, lol. 

Today I started cleaning up the mess in my rose bed. The grass was so high in there (my lawn guy charges extra to trim hedges, bushes and weedeat beds). I took out two of the hybrid tea rose bushes and will take another one out tomorrow. They came up really easy, to my surprise. The roses are beautiful, but the plants themselves are unattractive. I hope to transplant my two hydrangeas here soon. I bought the mulch months ago to use. I just haven't felt like doing any of this.

I'm also going to trim my yellow ligustrum bushes that have gotten way too tall and a few more bushes. I need a new hedge trimmer. I'll be going to Lowes tomorrow to get one. That is a long story for another day!

Here I go again...I looked up as I was typing and my screen was blank? All I had typed was gone?   QB, our holiday/anniversary will be a quiet one, too.  We can seldom think of any place we want to go, so we stay home doing our own things.  I'm not complaining,  just ruminating.  

Patty, congrats on the twins.  How special.    

Andrew came home on the train last evening and they all drove back to his present Chicago apt. with the boxes ML/Bill had gathered to begin packing for his move.  They'll drive home this evening and he'll take the train back tomorrow late afternoon.  Wears me out just thinking about it.  

Devonne, Covid has raised it's ugly head in this area again...or yet.  I heard that the schools have asked students to stay home if they think they have it.  Guess it doesn't have a season like flu does and there are a bunch of cases. Not implying Greg and Carter have Covid, with that remark.  When I was in school, eons ago!, no one got sick until later after cold weather/winter set in.  You and maybe, Carol are our master gardeners, now, since QB retired from gardening.
So far, everything's still very green here, but we've had several days of fallish temperatures.

I'd better go and get my messy kitchen cleaned up  before it's time to start supper.  Have a good remainder of the day.
Indy
 

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Patti, congratulations on the new grandbabies!  We do not have twins in our family either.  Dean's brother had twins way back in the 60's but both died at birth.  I am not sure of the exact year since his brother is 12 years older than Dean.  Twins have always amazed Dean.

Judy, as the others said, yes, Labor Day is always the first Monday in September.  How awful about your "fresh" veggies from a farmers market.  I have to say I have had wonderful luck here with ours.  Just got a yellow zucchini and another tomato today and they are both delicious.  The tomatoes have reminded us of when we were kids and could eat them like we eat apples, straight from the garden.
Next March will be the 50th for Dean and I.  He wants to have a celebration/party.  I do not.  I loathe them.  Glad to hear you eye laser went well.
Katie has been having some anxiety/mental issues these days and is making it difficult to talk with her.  She was not raised on any type of religion and Aaron is very religious.  So, she had been going to church and classes with him but is so conflicted with some of the church beliefs.  Her brother, with whom she is extremely close, is gay and lives with a man.  She is having a hard time with the church as they will not give her the answers she wants regarding that issue.  They even recommended she she a religious therapist and the church paid for it.  So, I try to steer clear of that topic at all and recently steer clear of her cause all she wants to do is talk and debate it.  Causing some issue with Aaron I am sad to say.

Dean and I had soup and sandwiches for supper.  He had just got back in from a little run and wanted a light dinner.  Now he is doing the dishes and I am playing on the computer