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Gorgeous Paella!!!! Looks delish! Liz, you are experiencing the same type of heat we get here. Our highs are usually around 5-6 pm. It really doesn't start to get cool outside until the sun starts to really dip around 8pm. Being someone who grew up in this dry heat climate, I much prefer it to the humidity and lesser temps on the east coast. Humidity kills me. (Though, I'm wondering if at a normal weight, it wouldn't bother me as much????) Hope that ill SIL taking it easy yesterday helps her today!

DD, your week away from home was certainly no vacation! You must be exhausted, and not in the fun exhausted way a fun filled vacation leaves you! Enjoy your porch time. Question: Have you both a front and back porch? Where do you spend your porch time? In CA, front porches are not at all a thing. We are back yard people.

201.9 today. Only 1.1 over my departure weight. I think this quick drop is due to water loss and a middle of the night poop! LOL! Oh, and maybe because I did get to the gym yesterday. Oh, boy... it felt great! I did a full body workout as is warranted after a break, and my legs are already feeling the four sets of deep squats and four sets of kettle bell swings. My chest is beginning to feel it, too. Hopefully, I didn't push my back to hard... I don't like having super sore back muscles.

My client obligations for today are already met, so the rest of the day is mine. I will go say Hi to dad and see what else I can get accomplished here at home. Lots and lots to do, but only a few things I WANT to do.

One of the owlets fledged itself last night a bit too prematurely, IMO. The dogs terrorized it. I was able to get the dogs in, scoop up the owlet and put it on the other side of the fence in to be safe from my murderous canines. It was gone this morning, so I'm going to believe that is a good sign. My guess is that it either got it's wings working and is back in the owl box, or it wandered off and got picked up by a natural predator, of which there are plenty around here.

Diane S., looking forward to seeing you next Saturday. Yes, I know 8 am is a "tad too early" for you. I'll see you when I see you!

Super Sunday, peeps!

How did I not realize until today that DH wasn't traveling with you Liz? I bet you do miss him and I bet it is mutual. At least Justice still gets Dad at home!

Safe travels back home DD. Enjoy your gardening, reading, theater and of course the coffee shop!

122.6 today so back up a bit even though calories were on the low side yesterday. I think part of the weight loss may have been dehydration which thankfully is pretty easy to remedy.

Church today. I got to wear another fun summer dress today for the first time, actually the blue one with the ruffles! Weather is hot enough that there won't be a DH walk this afternoon but I think I might hop on the treadmill. No formal exercise yesterday but I did get in 10000 steps with the Zoo visit plus other walking around in Milwaukee.

I plan to make air fryer chicken parm tonight for dinner. I've never made chicken parm before (that I can remember). Hope it is good!

Even more difficult to determine what day it is when traveling! I am missing DH especially since I can't talk to him easily with the time change. He had a good day watching his granddaughter pitch in softball yesterday and taking his eldest daughter out for dinner.

We gave less well SIL a day of rest yesterday and she looked so much better last night. Still eating like a bird but at least she is eating something beyond a few crackers. Other SIL and I did a lot of walking until the heat got to be too much. We had to go to the Apple Store to get her iPhone fixed which apparently had the VoiceOver feature inadvertently turned on at a higher speed than usual so it sounded garbled. So weird! But then DSD met us in that area and we hopped around a couple of places shopping and got drinks at the rooftop bar at the Four Seasons. Very nice - expensive drinks, but free snacks in a nice environment. At that point in the day it was too hot to be fully outside but we did go to the outside area before we left to take pictures. Dinner at a place specializing in Paella (pictures below) - very good and seemed like a local's spot!

So the weather is weird to us. On the east coast of the US, the heat usually peaks in the early to mid-afternoon. Here the peak is at 7 pm. So it is actually not bad up until about 1 but then really heats up. It was 103 at 7 pm last night. I guess that is because the sun doesn't set until after 10 pm!

This morning we are going to an outdoor market (well SIL, DSD, and I). The wheelchair gets delivered at 10. This afternoon we have tickets at the Prado.

Have a surprising Sunday!

Get those calories up! Funny that both you and I had the same thought about Kirby potentially making strides in the lake.

These guys make you laugh with those big toothy grins!