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123.9. Back down.

DH and took a walk outside. The one day for the foreseeable future that doesn't have rain predicted. Temps in the 60's. Actually got a little warm wearing pants and a long sleeved Tee today on the walk.

DC1 has a date planned for either today or tomorrow. They have not dated in over 4 years and are pretty nervous. I know how badly they want to find their person! Fingers crossed it is a good match.

The talk of pancakes the other day got me craving them even though most of you don't seem to be fans! I got the Kodiak protein pancake mix. Dinner will be blueberry pancakes and bacon. We don't do breakfast meats so DH will be thrilled bacon is on the menu!

Made an ETSY sale today so I need to get that made and ready to ship out on Monday and then finish making the rest of my cards for the art fair mid July. Other than that, perhaps some time on the patio and/or hot tub this evening!

DD! First day of the rest of your life! Congratulations!

Peps, you're not posting too much at all!! Loving seeing your pictures. According to 23and me, I'm 85% German/French/Austrian much from the Rhine-Main region.

Yesterday was filled with car servicing, a nap, and lizard rescues. I had a lizard stuck in a glue trap and couldn't bring myself to touch it to get it free (oil does it apparently). He was large and upset as you'd expect. I called one reptile rescue place and they said sure we'll help and then wouldn't respond to any of my subsequent texts asking where I could bring him. So yesterday I contacted another reptile rescue and he immediately offered to come get the lizard. We met halfway and he sent me a picture of the free little guy. I gave him $40 as penance for having glue traps in the first place and for his gas and time.

The designers came and hung a bunch of pictures for me and brought a contractor who is going to work on my kitchen ceiling to put in a vent over the island for the stove. The couple who built the house didn't put a vent in the kitchen as they weren't cooks, it's not code for some reason in my county (would have been in Sedona city limits), and mostly steamed their food. Weirdos. He's going to build a 12" drop down box the size of the large island relocating lights and speakers and put a whole room kitchen ceiling vent in it. The drop is needed because the ceiling joists run the wrong way to put it parallel to the cooktop. It should preserve the view of the mountain behind me out the kitchen window:

The vent looks like this:



Hmm, what projects to work on today... I may tidy the laundry room which has become a repository for all things that didn't belong elsewhere in the house. I figure if I keep consolidating my messes into smaller and smaller areas, eventually everything will have a home.

We're going to see 100 a few times starting tomorrow. Blech. But it is the desert, and it's better than Phoenix which will be 111 several times in the coming week.

That's all for me. I have overnight oats in the fridge made with vanilla Oikos yogurt and Fairlife milk for protein, so I'll go give that a try...

Take care all!

Liz, we are on Viking's Grand European Tour, Budapest to Amsterdam. It's a 15 day cruise. Really only 15, but they like to count the morning on the boat before you leave as a day.

I was just wondering this morning who is taking care of your dogs?

Die Schlossen sind prächtig!