Recent Posts

A very rough start to the day!! One of those when you want to get back in bed and start over.

Right when I got up, my phone rang. It was ADT telling me my AZ fire alarm was going off. It was before 6am AZ time. I couldn't think straight! Do I have the fire dept go out? My neighbors wouldn't be up yet. I told them to hold off and I would call the house watcher. I woke her up and asked her to go investigate. As I woke up more (and ADT called 8 more times as it kept going off after every reset they did), I had enough sense to look at my smart house stuff and could see it was only 1 of the 2 alarm-wired fire detectors and the non-alarm Nest smoke detectors were fine. I deduced the battery on the one non-hardwired device was dying. The batteries were supposed to last 5 years. The first one died 6 months in and this one a year and a half. The mistake I made was thinking the first one was a fluke and not changing the second! So that is now going to be a yearly task whether it needs it or not! Jen and her husband went and changed the battery. I'm so lucky to have them! Such a rattling way to start the morning. Argh.

Then I showered and Kirby decided I was too far away and got in through the curtain. Soaking wet dog. More Argh.

I went to the post office to get a package they wouldn't drop off because the gate was closed (our neighbor who shares the road closed it to keep out tourists and apparently postal workers). They were already closed at 11:30! But the two were still in there and I had to yell my name and address through the locked glass door, which they heard wrong so couldn't find it. More yelling. Carter is not a hard name. What would they have done if it was Wojciechowski?? Argh again.

My neighbor's kids wanted to come meet Kirby and were an hour late and I hate when people are late! But now everything I had to do today is done and I am doing absolutely NOTHING the rest of the day.

More gray cold weather today. So weird. Hardly any sun since I got here. But it's so much better than the 104 it is supposed to be at home today. Did you see an all time high of 124 in Palm Springs yesterday? How is your brother fairing, Diane?

Hope everyone has a wonderful day with no alarms of any kind!

I fantasized about dropping a match when I moved last to not have to deal with the mess of moving and giving away!

Thank you for the info - I'm glad you are blazing the maintenance trail before me.

Made it through the 4th. We had a very successful party. It cooled off in the evening so we could spill out and eat on the deck and watch the fireworks later. Our 4 dogs (our 2 plus our DD's 2) and the cat all survived the fireworks without too much trauma. Yesterday, we pretty much just rested and puttered, putting things away. Today is DH's bday, which is being overshadowed somewhat this year by the BFF's son's wedding later today. Another friend from childhood (but only since we were 9) arrived last night for the wedding and will be staying with us for several days. So I've been busy!

Liz, I'm in the same boat re maintenance. I'm using semaglutide since tirzepatide is harder to come by in CA. What they told me at HenryMeds is to decrease slowly over a couple of months. In their experience, many people do well on half the dose they used for weight loss, though, of course that can vary. It sounds like that part of things IS pretty vague. I agree with you about the cost. I'm on a half dose now, but still paying the full monthly price since HenryMeds is a monthly subscription deal. I looked into Orderly but I wasn't able to get my questions answered satisfactorily without signing up with their service, but it sounds like they may let you pay by the vial. Anyway, I decided to stick with what I have until I'm feeling more confident about my maintenance dosage and then look around for alternatives.

Lizanne

Recent posts have me considering how silly it is to spend our lives collecting THINGS and then arranging our lives to care for them.

The growing intensity of my declutterring and downsizing has me fantasizing about how happy I might be living in 600 square feet with only 10 outfits to wear and only my memories and digital photographs to remind me of all the lives I enjoyed this lifetime.

Maybe my last incarnation this lifetime could be as a member of a non-religious retreat community where we take our meals together, have overnight laundry service and super-fast WiFi with lots of lovely nature trails to hike that somebody else maintains.

But today I must finish mowing the trails on this beautiful 25 acres I still care for. Truth is that chore actually doesn't suck.