Sunday, May 22, 2022

Is Memorial Day only a day and a week away?????

It is gorgeous at the beach, though hot at the house. So I will be here until about 2 or so (Mike is golfing).

Another reminder that life is short and we should get the most out of it while we can: The SIL who was visiting this weekend has breast cancer and is having a mastectomy/reconstruction. With a lumpectomy only she would need follow-up radiation and chemo but they feel there will be no need with a mastectomy. You never know what life is going to throw at us at our age. And my other SIL with lung cancer may have to be started on radiation soon. That doesn't seem like a good sign.

Good job getting your home ready to sell CC! DD, I hope your retirement isn't too much later than DH's? I retired 3 years after deceased DH. He was a bit lonely during that time. Can't wait to hear more details on Pep's puppies!

Have a satisfying Sunday!

Cold here! Memorial Day weekend is a mixed bag here, the official start of summer and it can be glorious in the 80s, or 50s and cold rain. The cold front we have right now, should move on by the end of the week, giving us nice weather for the 3day weekend.

DH has to work the entire weekend, so my plans will be getting a few bedding plants in the ground. I will make an appointment to get my 4th Covid shot Friday after work. I've been waiting until then in case it makes me feel sick.

DH is going to work part-time during the school year, about 15-18 hours a week, but never on days I have off. He feels like he'll need some structure to his week, and the money will be welcomed. We hope to put off making any draws from 401ks and IRAs for several years, especially with the bear market headed this way! Once this school year is done, I will work 3 more years, putting my retirement at 64. But in the meantime, there is an inexhaustible list of things that need his attention in our house and yard!

Sorry to hear about your SILs recent diagnosis. Radiation wasn't fun, but it seems to me the thing to really avoid is chemotherapy. I've seen so many people laid so low by chemo, it seems like torture. So it's good she has that option. My mother had radiation for her lung cancer, because there was a new tumor that was in an inoperable location. It did eradicate that tumor, but it also left her with some blood clots. Another reminder to get on with the things we dream of doing.

Have I mentioned how much I hate squirrels? They chew through my twinkle lights, wreck my bird feeders, and now, one has chewed through the gas hose that connects my tabletop fire place to the propane tank!!!! Tree rats.

Looking forward to Moulin Rouge tonight. We saw it pre Covid in Boston. One friend described it as 5 pounds of sexy in a 4 pound bag :)

Enjoy the show! Our Memorial Day weekend weather varies much like yours. Right now they are forecasting high 60's but it is too early to really know.

One chewed though my year and a half old drip irrigation line! Jerks!

I finished!!!! Hallelujah! Yesterday was a very long day (10,000 steps and never left the house). Tidying, cleaning, purging on repeat. But it's done! The photographer came this morning. Afterwards, I went and got coffee with a friend and came home and slept for 2 hours. It was one of those naps where you wake up confused as to day, time, who you are...

I have one task left - scraping some caulking that's peeling out of a shower and replacing it, but that should be easy and I have until Wednesday's open house.

The photographer is coming back tonight for night pictures (my lighting is pretty) and drone footage.

Gotta go shake off my nap!

Are you prepared to do a fast closing if that happens? They seem to be more common these days. I bet your house will sell fast.

I think I will ask to rent back for a a month or two if that happens. I may not need it all, but will have to have it all packed by someone!

Greetings all

Another slow day here in paradise. I went to the studio and fiddled around and then made a store trip. Steak tonight and roasted vegetables tomorrow which DH will likely reject.

Yep life is short. Having said that I still don't think one must run around and cram every minute with excitement. Down time is time well spent. Guess I am lucky enough to have traveled a little and eaten lots of good things.

Liz I hope your SiLs do well and feel decent. Years ago my mother had breast cancer and lumpectomy and radiation. Ditto after uterine cancer. But she lived a very long time and survived the cancers. She was done in by Parkinsens disease at age 92.

Squirrels are indeed evil!!! Not many around here but loads in the midwest. One got into my house and trashed stuff. I paid an exterminator to chase it out. But it came back in. I actually saw it! I caught it with a humane trap and took it miles away to a recreation lake and let it loose in the parking lot. It had chewed my phone wires in the upstairs of the house and threw a bagel down the basement stairs.

Yeah Peps, lets hear about those puppies.

My tendonitis is acting up again so I dug up the little support thing I was wearing. I still have the giant boot but am hoping to avoid that.

DD loved your dinner pictures on FB. Hope the show is good.

Watching a new show called Night sky. Some old people find some kind of star portal and spooky stuff happens. Not sure what I think just yet. Sissy Spacek and another well know actor whose name I cant remember.

We want puppies we want puppies we want puppies!!

Diane S

Agree with the not needing to cram every minute. I love sitting and doing nothing. I think the key is to ask yourself, what do I want, so that you get to do that. There were times in my life where obligations took up a great deal of my time. I'm still obligated to work hard when I'm at work, but have much more freedom to choose what makes me happy in my free time. Some aspects of getting older are pretty sweet!

Interesting point. I do like downtime and sometimes wish I had more lately, but maybe because of the years at the end with DH when life was so constrained I do somewhat want to cram in whatever I can. I felt a bit harried in the first 2 months of our travels in Hawaii and Arizona, but there was lots of down time in the Florida Keys which I totally enjoyed. And since we are retired we still have a lot of quiet time in between our travels.