Sunday, June 30. 2019

I hope everyone is having a nice Sunday morning! We do Sunday breakfast. This morning was bacon and Kodiak protein waffles with Michigan strawberries. Coming from California, I thought I had tasted good strawberries until I had Michigan strawberries. So sweet and flavorful! California strawberries seem bred for size and durability. Michigan strawberries are small and delicate, but taste a million times better.

Fergie still continues to improve. Yay!

Not sure what I'm going to do today, but I will make sure it includes some fun for Shel!

So glad Fergie is improved. Strawberries around here are smaller and sweet too. Some people grow the California variety around here. They look great and are huge but not near the flavor.

I mowed a little bit this morning. Just around the Airstream in the woods. Thinking about taking the mower to the other shop. I have a procedure tomorrow. They will put some kind of ointment on my head and then I will get out in the sunlight to get UV exposure. Might as well be mowing. It is used to remove any pre cancerous skin all at one time. I have had a couple pre cancer spots removed from my forehead. I have never been good about skin care. Hats make me claustrophobic. Most of my work life has been indoors except for my 20 s.

Eating is good.

More later, David

A friend of mine did that skin thing! She was red and shedding for a long time afterward, but it made her skin look great.

Greetings All

159 today. Still gaining. Too much wine I think. Gotta cool that.

Its sunny and calm today. Painter wants to come work for awhile. He is having a fit because some sap oozed up from the new wood on the deck. I could not care less but he seems to think its a big deal. Right now its covered in tarps so no pictures yet.

Wow, Michigan strawberries!! The best ones here are home grown. And they have these tiny little wild beach strawberries at certain dunes. Tiny and yummy. DH used to grow them in pots on the deck and just as they would get ripe a big old slug would eat a hole in them.

Dave I hear you on the hats. I hate them too. Feel like they limit vision. DH wears one all the time as he is very bald. He nags me to wear one in the sun which I should. But I have loads of hair.

So glad Fergie is peppy. Numerous projects here for the upcoming weekend. Tesla is entered in dog shows next weekend so I have to take her to her breeder for show grooming which I can no longer do. That means I have to go buy fancy wine as tribute. No rot gut.

Wishing serene Sunday to all. Diane S

Local fruit is always the best. When I was a kid, the only blueberries we ate fresh were wild blueberries we picked during the summer. A pie made with wild blueberries is a thing of beauty. I had a peach yesterday, and it was good, but I never forget a peach I bought at a roadside stand in Sonoma, just picked, still warm from the sun, it was like a whole different fruit than the ones shipped to Minnesota. And the bananas in Jamaica, they tasted like they had honey inside. In Minnesota we can get the best apples, honeycrisp was created here in an orchard on the bluffs of the Mississippi.

Wild blueberries cooked in pie or just by themselves - yummm! And peach pie with peaches right out of the orchard are to die for.

So the weather forecast was a bust today. We watched a 9am broadcast, hottest day of the year, heat index warning triple digits, find a cooling station if you don't have air conditioning etc. Storms to the west will evaporate before they get here, due to heat... So we decide we better get to our favorite beach before the crowds do. I pack a picnic, husband gets kayak on the car off we go. Set up, it's around 82, things look good, husband launches kayak, I get out my book, when suddenly the wind turns and the temperature drops. White caps on the lake. I get cold, Sun obscured by sudden bank of black clouds, I put on my hoodie, and lower the umbrella. Husband returns, I break out a towel as a lap robe, as we discuss whether this is going to blow over, followed by the extreme heat. We are the only ones left on the beach, the life guard comes to tell us she saw lightning, so we cannot be in or on the water for the next 30 minutes. As if, I now have goosebumps. We decide the weather report was really really wrong and start to pack up when the sky lets loose. Husband got soaked to the skin and had to drive home shirtless. The temp dropped to 69. This sure is a tricky heat wave, it's lulling us into a false sense of security before it ambushes us, and debydrates us with heat stroke! :)

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Omg DD, what did you do to offend Mother Nature? But yeah, I so remember midwestern weather - it could turn on a dime. Glad the lifeguard shooed you away. That part of the country has such intense lightning. Stay safe. Diane S

Quote for today: People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~ Iris Murdoch, writer

So DH and I are sitting in a parking lot waiting for the rain to subside so we can meet friends from our former hometown for dinner. Remember that I had a car drown in flash floods a couple of years ago? I thought that was going to happen again today so I pulled into a higher area. The rain is diminishing but I want to wait for the puddles to drain.

Yesterday I stuck my nose into my nephews business a bit and suggested that he try to see his mother every couple of weeks or so. He is only about 1.25 hours away and visiting Cape Cod really isn't a super burden. In the past he would only see his Mom every few months but nothing is certain with her cancer now and I think they need each other. She also keeps trying to protect him so won't say much on the phone. I knew she would talk to him in person. So he and his fian****ame last night. DS also got out of work early so we had a family dinner for 7 and it was a lot of fun. SIL did talk to her son about the latest developments.

Tomorrow SIL and I are going to Boston for a follow-up after her issues last week. Hopefully it won't be a big deal but one never knows now.

Have a Super remaining Sunday!