Can you believe it?? July already, the countdown is on to Christmas LOL 

SANDRA absolutely no apology needed, I use the wrong names many times . You are usually right!! I thought you might have Matt shopping, but he isn't this week?? I know you look forward to seeing him, but had the visit with others anyway. Do many go away for the summer, I think I would rather stay in your apartment, sounds like it's mostly cooler there!

CHERYL it happens like that, the time being taken up with appointments, great idea to stay over, far less stress, and maybe will feel like a mini holiday! Good luck on your travels!

HOLLY hope all went well today, thinking of you!

JANET I have done that so many times, I now have a small espresso cup I keep under the spout. I move it if I am filling a mug, but mostly use it to get my espresso shot and add it to my protein drink, I have also forgotten to put the pod in OR put it in, then forgotten and ejected it and put in a new one, I see it when I empty the container, no little holes in it LOL

DEVONNE I love your painting, I do like them both, but I think I prefer the one on top. I know you added to it, it just goes better in my house as the first one LOL so I'm going by that. Your blouses being put into colours are a great idea, they look good and you will not need clothes for a while! I do need more winter type things, I just tend to be in jeans and my Kathmandu tops for winter, with some nice sweaters  for going out. 

I did spill coffee on my white jeans on Friday with the girls, I've washed them twice now, and the stain is not too bad, I can still see it faint, hopefully another wash will remove it completely. 
Pete said to me before I went out, don't have pasta with sauce for lunch in case you spill some on the white, he jinxed me!!

It's been cold today again, we had risotto for dinner in the new multi cooker, it was pretty good, before dinner W took me to the local mall, we have an App called "To Good To Go", mostly bakeries, and our local one of Bakers Delight has a package, you can get a mystery bag for $10, I got lots - including a large sliced fruit loaf, and  6 ham and cheese rolls (cheese baked on top) and  plain scones, more rolls and it's all worth about $25, not really worth the drive to the mall, but if it comes up at our local, I may get again, we added some ham/cheese rolls to our dinner and froze the rest. So an easy peasy dinner tonight.!!  I've bagged and frozen the rest, we sure don't need that amount of food laying about, I'll get some cream tomorrow for the scones, and the Mr can have a couple for afternoon tea tomorrow LOL (he's already volunteered to go to the shop to get cream now!!!)

I usually freeze our bread when I buy it, I can fit 4 slices into a sandwich bag and we can just remove what we want. I got so sick of tossing bread out after a few days. I toast mine from frozen anyway, my english muffins go straight to the freezer  - then only 20 seconds in the microwave, split and toast!

The funeral was lovely. The pastor spoke, then her sister had us in tears with her eulogy, talking about Morgan being her baby sister and best friend. Then John sang you are my sunshine, and we all sobbed. The funeral person released a white dove, which was actually a homing pigeon. It was all very moving. 

John doesn’t bear weight, so they had him in a gator, which is like a souped up golf cart. He and I both cried, of course. The morning was draining. 

after the luncheon and visiting with people we came back her to relax. After dinner we had a thunderstorm and we got torrential rain over 5 inches in about 2 hours! 

This morning my girls went to the spa, and my brother and Donna headed home. My nephews left last night, and are almost home. We all leave tomorrow.
 

Devonne, no beach this trip. I shrunk out of my bathing suit, and haven’t bought another, so no pool. everyone else except Ralph has been in the pool a lot. I sat poolside one night with them, after the sun went down and it was cooler. 

Jersey is under a heat advisory the end of the week, it’s going to be 100! Yikes! We leave for home tomorrow morning, and Steph and Manda and kids fly out. Even tho it was a sad occasion, it’s been great to be together. 

HOLLY I still think of beaches as the ocean, I guess being surrounded by them as we are it's hard not to LOL
If it's rivers lakes we don't usually refer to them as beaches. I was wondering when you asked did Georgia have beaches, I thought - "it can't, it's land locked" LOL

JANET got your PM, thank you! I hope it's not as hot  as Holly where you are!

SANDRA are you ok for food, that is a long while between visits, I know you  are always well prepared though.

DEVONNE that is a shame you can't have other meds, hope he can help with symptoms for you, can you take anything for the osteoporosis??

I have a fried brain tonight, we got new iPhones, took soo long to get them switched over! Especially mine, for some reason my e-sim didn't want to play nice, and the girl didn't know what to do, I was beginning to panic, I was ready to just start a new plan with the company, she got it in the end, we had to wait so long for the apps to load, and that app wouldn't load.. I've just spent so much time updating more logins for things, our government app is really secure, and needed extra security for me to  log in, so did a few others, I did get my car system connected quickly though.

It's weird this phone,  no home button, and it's face recognition, we will get used to it though.

We rang Megan on the way home, just to see if the phone worked in the car LOL and she told us she is Member of the Month at training, she got some nice gifts, they announce it 1st of the month but she was in training this morning, so they gave her gifts and took her pic. I'm not supposed to know till Wednesday LOL

Nothing else happening, I used my new cooker again, didn't get back home till after 5pm, and had dinner -- Mussaman Beef on the table by 6.15, normally I have it in the slow cooker all day. Tasted very good too, just more watery than I am used to, but I will thicken the leftovers up before we have them
 

WONKY ADS......
1.  7 OUNCES OF CHOICE SIRLOIN STEAK BOILED TO YOUR LIKENESS AND SMOTHERED WITH GOLDEN FRIED ONION RINGS.
2.  GREAT DAMES FOR SALE.

70S AND SUNNY HERE BUT WE WILL BE GETTING THAT HEATWAVE STARTING WED.  TEMPS MAY HIT UP TO 98 ON THURSDAY.  YIKES.  TOO MUCH FOR US IN MAINE.

DEVONNE......I HOPE YOUR APPTS RUN SMOOTHLY SO YOU CAN GET FROM ONE TO THE OTHER IN TIME.  GOOD LUCK.

TRISH......THANKS FOR THINKING OF ME, BUT I HAVE PLENTY OF FOOD HANDY.  MY CLOSETS ARE STOCKED WITH CANNED GOODS, BOXED ITEMS, PASTAS AND SOUPS INCLUDING SHELF-READY MILK.  I ALSO HAVE A 2-WEEK SUPPLY OF FREEZE-DRIED SOUPS STORED SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED.  THEY ARE GOOD FOR ANOTHER 20 PLUS YEARS.  MY FREEZER IS PACKED WITH GROUND BEEF, CHICKEN, PORK CHOPS, STEW BEEF AND NEW YORK SIRLOIN ALONG WITH SOME FREEZER FOODS AND ICE CREAM.  I WILL NOT STARVE.

HERE WE SAY 'THE BEACHES' WHEN WE MEAN THE OCEANFRONT AND 'THE LAKE' WHEN WE MEAN ONE OF OUR NEARBY LAKES.  i HAVE AT LEAST 4 LAKES WITHIN 10 MILES OF ME AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS THRUOUT THE STATE.

I AM HAVING VANILLA YOGURT AND TOMATO JUICE FOR BREAKFAST TODAY. I DEFROSTED SOME GROUND BEEF SO WILL MAKE A HAMBURGER AND HAVE FROZEN FRIES FOR SUPPER I THINK.  I WILL ALSO MAKE UP TUNA SALAD TO HAVE HANDY OR FOR LUNCH.  I DON'T THINK I WILL WANT TO SPEND MY TIME COOKING MUCH THIS WEEK.  
THIS WEEK IS WEEK 5 ON MY CALENDAR SO I DON'T HAVE ANY CHORES THIS WEEK AT ALL.  ITS ALL FUN AND GAMES.  I CAN DO A CHORE IF I FEEL LIKE IT, BUT CAN SKIP IT, TOO.  I THINK I WILL TRY TO GET SOME SEWING DONE ALONG WITH READING, READING, READING THIS WEEK.

STAY SAFE AND COOL MY FRIENDS.  PREPARE WELL FOR THE HEAT AND POSSIBLY POWER LOSS FROM OVERLOADING.  HUGS, QB S 
PS.  UPDATED MY QUILTCRAFTER BLOG WITH MY METHOD FOR KEEPING BREAD FRESHER LONGER WITHOUT FREEZING.

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SANDRA I knew you would be organised, sounds like you are very well set up. Enjoy your rest days, hope the puzzling goes well, I haven't done one for a while!

DEVONNE it's not only face recognition, you can use a passcode same as you can with the older ones. Very easy to navigate, a few things different, but I have got used to it pretty quick, DH on the other hand LOL  it's a process!!! when you 'swipe' he makes a big production of it, the hand (and arm) swipe, I keep telling him you just need to be gentle and use one finger lightly, he'll get it eventually LOL Will they give you something for the osteoporosis?

HOLLY I didn't realise Georgia went right to the coast, maybe I'm thinking of Kentucky, I'll look at a map, hope you get home safely, and get some rest, you will al be very tired.

JANET that is quite a party week for your Grandson, you must be very proud of him, won't be long till we have Dean's final graduation, they do a formal night as well after the final exams.

STRINGS hope you are doing well, and your DH is coping with life OK ((((hugs))))

Nothing happening here today, hair cut and colour, picked up Dean, got a phone case and ordered extra chargers and ear pods from Amazon, the car chargers don't fit our new phones, mine will connect to everything with bluetooth, but I like to see a charger for emergency charge on trips to my sis!

I didn't realise the new charge port is different, it's the same name -  USB-C but different size to our old ones. always something to get you to spend more $$ LOL I need a big clean out of all the older chargers.

Time for me to shut this down and head to bed. We might be up early on Sat morning, Aust play at 4am - yikes!!! If they win they go on to the 16 round! I don't think they will, they play Egypt, and they are really, really good.

 

Ladies, I met Elvis and I was in my nightgown! Don't be jealous, lol! Greg asked me to send him a screen shot and I didn''t know what he was up to. It's amazing what you can do on the computer these days. 

Trish, my appt. is August 6th and I'll find out then about my osteoporosis treatment. Which reminds me I need to get a bone density test scheduled before then! Always something, lol.

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Devonne, so cute!  Thanks for showing us.  That's your nightgown??  Good Grief!  You should see mine...
ML showed me a pic of her MIL, Ruth, who is 97 next to John Wayne, courtesy of Bill's brother Rick, the family clown. 

Sunday, ML called me after on-line church to see if I'd like to go to a Lavender Festival put on by her former co-worker and hubby who own a small lavender farm, nearby.  It was the last day before the heat wave hit and we had a lovely time.  They do this each year and it was rather low key and so pleasant and it smelled so good there.  Her chicken were running around loose and there were 8 or 10 vendors selling their wares, plus all the lavender products they make on the premises, distilling the oil in their several stills (which we didn't see).    My only purchase besides lunch from a food truck was a small fabric bowl, something I've never made myself, but I always wanted one.  One the way home, we stopped at a farmer's mkt. and I bought a pint of honey.   It was a fun day with my girl. 
When I got home, Howard showed me a picture of our new great grandson, Oakley Dale, born last Wed. He's a whopper!  8# 9 ozs.
He looks like a Lyons.  His mom is Kaylea, Howard's granddaughter.  

I've made some tuna/mac salad for supper.  Guess who just hollered for us to eat. 
I read that extreme heat makes people impatient and cross, especially older ones.  That's me!  Today and often!  He did go to W-M by himself this morning, thankfully. 
   
Have a good evening and sweet dreams.    Indy


  

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Judy, that's a $7 gown from Walmart, lol. 

The picture on the wall is Glacier Bay in Alaska. I took that picture and I had Michaels enlarge it and frame it. That was on our Alaska cruise in 2009.

Here's my favorite one Greg sent me. I made some pictures of my hydrangeas to post and my crape myrtle trees. They have done the best this year. I wonder if it's all the rain we've had or it just takes them years to get more blooms?



 

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I was just thinking,  4th is Sat, and we play in a world cup match at 4am, there will be lots celebrating 4th July here if we win LOL