Sunday 7-28-19

The weather has been great here this week. 70s and low 80s and the humidity has been good. Returning soon to our regular summer temps.

I took advantage of the break in the weather and gathered up some logs to slice up. The loggers just left them and If I do not slice them up they will just rot. I think I am going to make a tiny house out of them. It is all hardwood so it might be difficult to build but you will be able to huff and puff and not be able to blow my house down. It is on DS#1 and DIL property but it is their wood and their sawmill and he has a bunch of Pella windows that were taken out of a house. All I need to do is the work mostly. I can live in it for free and if it were on my land he would get it anyway. I cut the first 5 floor joists day before yesterday. Out of pine. I do not think I could lift it out of oak.

Adalyn has been running temp for almost 2 weeks now. Doc says everything is clear. When she does t get her way she tried to bite her teacher twice and a little girl too. She is miserable. She came for a visit the other day and said Hello, I love you. and yesterday she reached up and grabbed my finger to hold while I walked to the fridge for water. When she is that way I just want to keep walking. She plays by herself well. She loves boxes. She has a diaper box that she puts all her stuff in and then crawls inside. Yesterday she emptied the box, turned it up side down, then crawled under it. Totally covered she would reach out from under the box and grab a favorite towel. Then pulled it back under the box with her. When she is good she is very good.

Ann- Hope you are busy and having adventures.

BB- I am all for explants but 2 years of not holding babies will be tough for me. 3 months after back surgery I was restricted to 20 lbs and Adalyn was 22 lbs. So I would lay down or sit down and they would place her in my arms. It was second best but it worked.

Cecily- My garden is growing too. I got a late start but if half of the blooms produce we will be in the veggies for sure.

DD- Happy Birthday. Your mother has significant health issues. My mom is ready too. My dad passed in 2012 and they were close for 64 yrs. I never even saw them disagree.

Devon- The pics are wonderful. You have quite the eye for photography . My favorite is the path in the woods. I have been thinking of making a timber bench but had not come up with a design. I think you just came up with it for me.

DianneO- Sleeping in your RV for the AC is a great idea. DW turns on the Fantastic fans in the mornings but turns on the AC when she leaves for town. Looked up and heard the AC on and the vent on. It was 80 inside. How often do you do the equine therapy? sounds like a very rewarding effort.

DianeS- I am for fanciful fish too. Nothing saying you can not do both. Tell DH I feel for him. I am a fast eater. It hurts and makes me feel bad so you think I would learn.

Liz- It is so cool to meet someone you have watched on TV. Even better when you find out they are down to earth.

Miss150- Hope you are busy and having adventures too.

Shel- I think of you often. As you are one of the strongest women I know.

ShirlAus- Hope you are busy and having adventures too.

More later, David

1. Within Range: yes
2. General Wellbeing: 9 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 12,975
4. Fitness: walking
5. Self-Care: pre-packing
6. Fun: mowing
7. I learned/relearned: When I look for FUN, I find it !
8. Intentions: Seek balance & relax, rejuvenate, & recalibrate !!

Reduced the carb monster and successfully chose peach Activia over ice cream to hold sugar cravings at bay. Heat and humidity headed back into the oppressive range... more AC RV nights coming, I think ! DD, please check your OH mail for a message I sent a couple of weeks ago.

I love your reference to us as a Tribe! I think it is well suited.

I also get a kick out of mowing being labeled as fun! I do not like mowing particularly. I also am so OCD about edging it is a real chore. Hahahaha.... Thankfully I have only a small patch of lawn. I have nothing like the beautiful sprawling lawns found on the east coast.

We are home. I slept on and off for 9 hours. WOW! I must have needed it.

We actually ended up Glamping in Goat one extra night in Ashland. We figured it was easier for the dogs to stay in the RV than in our friends' home. They had plenty of space for the RV in the driveway, so that's what we did.

We saw As You Like It at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As someone with a degree in Theatre Arts, I feel I am entitled to critique with confidence. I felt the director took too much liberty with the play in the narration of the "History" at the beginning of the play. It was so fractured it was nonsensical. The diction and clarity of the actors was abysmal in the first act - especially during the set up of the plot, which was sad. We noticed 5 individuals get up and leave and not return during the first act. Sad... Our friend who is a great Festival enthusiast and sees many of the plays each year (one of the reasons they finally moved to Ashland) confessed the next morning he couldn't understand anything during most of the first act because the actors spoke with such rapidity and lack of clarity. Though I loved the play and many aspects of it, I was disappointed by my first experience with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Both Ron and I agreed we had just been to the equivalent of a college theater experience.

So, vacationing in the RV vs. a traditional hoteling and eating out vacation: I freaking lost 2 pounds! What! The! Hell!!!!! It's not like I ate spectacularly either, but I didn't over eat either. I am quite pleased. I had wondered if I had lost a bit and was so pleased to see that my instinct was correct. Now I must keep up my sane eating while at home and getting ready for school to start. School is starting a week earlier this year. Students return on August 14. I will be at school this week beginning to get things readied. I will be flying back east on the 6th to look at dogs for breeding to Ella and Dottie. So, I have to get things ready a bit earlier than I normally would.

Today I am going to attend a theater organ concert at my BFF's studio. He is the fellow who owns the Grand Lake Theater organ I wrote about earlier this month. He also has a home studio that is very impressive. People from all over the world have visited it because it has such a fine reputation as a studio/home installation. It's been years since I've gone to a theater organ concert. I am looking forward to it. The concert artist also has an Airedale! I'm sure we will hit it off! LOL!

Happy to be home, but am not loving the heat! Thank goodness it is not humid. Laugh, if you like, but dry heat really is far more tolerable!

Sunday Serenity to all! XO!

Greetings Sunday Sleepy Heads

At least that's what I am this Sunday for no particular reason. Its overcast here (so finally the fussy painter can work - he doesn't want to apply paint if its too hot). Whatever.

Dave glad you have a weather break. Humid heat can be killer. And hey, good on you for building a tiny house and using all that good wood. Glad you are making use of wonderful hardwoods. Thanks for the Adalyn box stories. I see a little hardwood playhouse in her future.

Happy Birthday DD! Beach report please.

Guess I was AWOL yesterday. No excuses. 158 weight today. Dinner last night was a salad with some chopped ham on top. I am hoping DH learns not to eat so fast but I gotta admit I am doing that too.

Yesterday I managed to get a lot of un fun chores done. Like the sales tax returns for two galleries and waiting a long time to do gallery deposit at the bank. Plus picking up art of others to be photographed. And the endless sorting of papers and tossing junk mail. More today.

Hey Cecily, time for a garden update. Anything to eat yet? Enjoy the guest free days. Hey we started watching "Stranger Things". Yeah its good. We like it.

Hey Liz, glad you met the hockey player. A treat indeed.

DH is showing signs of removing junk. We must encourage this.

Peps, sorry the Shakespear was not good. Yep you do have the right to critique. That festival has such a good reputation so its too bad you got the lemon. Glad your glamping trip was a success.

Thats about it here. More coffee and then attack the papers.

Diane S

Hi everyone! So many things going on. Dave, love the tiny house idea. Pros, ugh, while good theater is transcendent, bad theater insults the soul. Hope the weather was nice at least. OceanDiane, I will check my mailbox.

I am resting on my bed after a weekend of celebration. It was so fun. Yesterday the weather was superb with a light breeze, sunny, mid 80s, reasonable humidity. We had a picnic lunch at the beach, and I got in some swimming (paddling around really, I do the crawl and backstroke, but I'm not swimming like the club's that are training for triathlons) while DH read. Met our friends for dinner, and had a drink with a shiny green umbrella in it, by the tiki torches and the sparkling Mississippi River, followed by some first rate city fireworks. Today is overcast and drizzly, which made the brunch we went to cozy. We met another couple and had bottomless mimosas, which is why I am now resting on my bed :) And I had two flower deliveries, one from DH, and one from my kids. Now perhaps a little snooze, and then the Sunday paper. Feeling like I'm a lucky girl.

Having only recently awakened from my longer than expected nap, I now believe that Mimosas probably should have a bottom.

Glad you got to sleep it off!