Are We Having Fun, Yet?!?

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Tonight's photo collage reflects my sister's sense of humor, warped such as it is!  She gets great pleasure and many laughs from catching me dozing!  Her goal this trip is to catch me dozing in different places around the house.  So far she has gotten me four times…two of those today!  Guess I am getting more tired and less able to keep from dozing when she is around!  Also, I am used to taking naps and haven't taken even one since she has been here.  And, now she won't even let me have a tiny cat nap without giving me a hard time!!  Sisters!!!

We have had a good day.  We worked more on feeding the birds and the birds have started to realize that the feeders are full once again.  They were really flocking around this afternoon…many varieties.  We are also doing a very good job of feeding the squirrels, too.  I had just bought a bird feeder for a cylinder bird seed cake.  The problem was that the feeding pan wouldn't screw on tightly no matter who tried to turn it.  Nathan suggested that perhaps Patrick, Esther's husband, could weld it.  Patrick is in welding school.  Today Nathan brought the feeder back to us all welded.  We didn't put it out this afternoon because there was a threat of rain that really never developed.  We will put it up tomorrow.  

Tomorrow Linda H. is going to join us for lunch and I'm sure for a few laughs and lots of talk and catching up.  Cheryl talked with Rachel a little while ago and we are looking forward to Julianna and her joining us Saturday.  We thought that they were coming in late Saturday, but it looks like they may get here around supper time. So busier times are ahead.  But at least most of my packing woes are behind me.  I have had to take a couple things out of the suitcase…like the camera battery charger…but if I use something that I need to take before we leave, I am putting it right back in the suitcase so I won't forget it. 

Only 12 days till I’ll be cruising…or will it be dozing?!  Something tells me that it may be very easy to sleep on the plane at this end of the trip. 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

It Zipped!

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I made a goal before In blogged tonight that I would have most of what I was packing in the suitcase and get the suitcase zipped up and weighed.  I accomplished the goal and if the scale is accurate it weighs under the limit…but,,.boy was it heavy to pick up and weigh!  I am as fully packed as I can be at this point…I am referring to the suitcase…I still have to load up the carry on and my personal item/purse.i have placed the items near those two bags and will fill them up in plenty of time.  The best thing is that decisions as to what to take have been made!  

Today I received luggage tags from Norwegian.  I got luggage tags all ready yesterday, that they told me to download and print a while back.

Cheryl and I ran a couple of errands today.  She needed a graduation card and I needed to pick up a prescription and also see about getting some waterproof shoes. Hopefully we were successful on all accounts,  I say "hopefully" because they had to order the shoes for me…supposed to be here this coming week.  I hope they do as I need to break them in. The little guy in tonight's photo came up on the porch…surprised him and us!  

To be continued! Be well! Be safe! Be cautious! 

Time is Passing Quickly!

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We have been taking care of the birds…filling feeders with seed…which the squirrels have been doing antics in order to empty them as fast as we fill them.  We also filled and hung humming bird feeders…we don't think they have found those yet. 

We have done lots of porch sitting.  I have done some packing…keeping a list of what I have put in the suitcase so I will remember what I have put in!  It’s a bit confusing trying to visit and pack…but I think managing to do both fairly well! 🥴  We've also done a fairly good job of eating.  But I will say the time is going fast.  I have said that I will be pretty much packed when Rachel and Julianna arrive late Saturday night. Time will tell! I also have to do several things to have their bedrooms ready for them. But they will be here rooms ready or not.  Sounds like the game of Hide and Seek…"Ready of not here I come…in this case…here they come!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Celebrated Nathan

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She's In Tennessee

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Cheryl is in TN but she's not in Tullahoma, yet.  I guess with each turn of the car wheel on Melany and Wade's vehicle she gets a little closer!  Her flight was delayed due to air conditioning problems in the plane.  But they finally got off but almost an hour late.  Melany picked her up at the airport and then went to her house to get Wade and Erin.  Erin tends to get car sick so they decided not to have her go to the airport and then back to my house.  But they are now on the interstate so will be here in the next hour.

I decided to go on and blog early as there is no telling what kind of confusion there will be at my usual blogging time.  I have the soup all ready for them.  And, I’m sure the TN folk are especially hungry as it is past our usual supper time.  Cheryl is still two hours behind us on her clock…so she said that she wasn't absolutely starving! 

I will update you tomorrow night on our activities to that point.  Tomorrow we celebrate Nathan's birthday at their house in the late afternoon.  So another busy day ahead.  The porch is all ready for Cheryl to do some porch sitting and coffee drinking.  Doubt that she has coffee tonight…but one never knows!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Busy! Busy! BUSY,

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Tomorrow night at this time Cheryl should be here.  She gets in around 3pm tomorrow in Nashville.  Melany, Wade and Erin will pick her up at the airport and bring her here they will probably be here 5ish.  So they will eat supper here. I have Stuffed Spud Soup planned and Wade is going to to bring some sour dough bread. I doing the fixings this evening for it…bacon, shredded cheese, sliced green onion tops, and, of course, sour cream, which needs nothing done to prepare it!  I will make the soup tomorrow afternoon so we won't have to reward it.  It was on my list of possible meals while she is here…so this is a good time to serve it.  Something that we have enough of to serve 5 people.  

I grocery shopped today…my grocery cart was much more full than it usually is!  I’m pretty much ready.  I will do a little more in the morning and probably some more in the afternoon…I’m really never really ready till the company arrives!

Well, I need o get back in the kitchen…need to crumble bacon and then I’m also making Mother's recipe for Banana-Lemon Tea Bread.  We tend to enjoy using Mother's recipes when we are together…but I use her recipes a lot of other times, too.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!  

I Thought It Was A Leaf!

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I was walking back to the house from the compost pile and heading up the ramp to go in the back door and started to flick this leaf off the end of the ramp rail…and realized it wasn't a leaf!  Photo op!  I headed in and got my camera and take a picture or two before he decided to hop off somewhere else.  He was basking in the sun.  Tiny little thing.  I’m sure he is awaiting my sister's arrival to be able to greet her.  Roads are not her favorite critters! 

I spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen today…really one of my favorite places to spend time…so that was a good thing.  I did a little cooking…I needed something for my supper.  And, I did some cleaning. Today was the perfect day to clean my oven and it was a cool day…so the heat from the cleaning cycle didn’t build up too much and I was able to open a couple of windows to keep the smell down…and I have a nice clean oven to show for it.  My refrigerator is pretty empty…it’s anticipating being filled tomorrow.  It was the perfect day to wipe off the shelves since I didn't have to move much food around.  So inside of the fridge is all ready for tomorrow's grocery shopping day.  

I now need to go put dishes in the dishwasher that I used for supper.  Then my cleaning duties will be done for today.  I also did some bathroom cleaning today.  Two days to go till Cheryl is here and I just looked and it is 18 days till the cruise. 😳 I’m pretty much ready for Cheryl to be here…now…nowhere near ready to go cruising! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!