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Fortunately stumbled upon an Amish grocery store down the road aways...4.25 a dozen for extra large and feeling right fortunate about it.

Ugh. HOA drama with my good friend. We had a board member-only meeting yesterday (no homeowners). My friend texted and asked if it was anything bad since homeowners weren't invited (she is not on the board). I said, no, as far as I knew it was housekeeping items.

The meeting starts and it feels like a dressing down as the president read us the agreement we all signed when being added to the board about upholding the CC&Rs. I'm thinking where is this going? Then she starts in on the first item which was a surprise about my friend breaking the rule about running a business out of her home. Her son lives with her is a Cordon Bleu trained chef who has a business cooking for people and teaching them how to make the things he cooks in the casita. I apparently am the only board member who knew he was doing this and while I have read the hundreds of pages of CC&Rs, I don't make a habit of examining my neighbors for how they might be in violation. I honestly never put 2 and 2 together. He's been doing it longer than I've been on the board. So some of the "you're not upholding the rules" lecture was aimed at me.

Another board member said he would call and let her know we were aware this was happening and it has to stop by July 1st, but wanted her to hear it from a neighbor and friend. It didn't go well. She said we are singling her out/targeting her/keeping her son from his "right to earn a living" and she is fighting back. The rule is very clear. No businesses can operate where customers come to the house. This lets lawyers etc work from home, but excludes customer-focused businesses.

When I saw the email that he had called her this morning, I texted her saying how sorry I was this was happening and had I known that was what the meeting was about or that what her son was doing broke the rules, I would have said something earlier. An hour later, I asked her if we could talk when she was free. It's been nearly 7 hours and she hasn't responded. Being on an HOA board sucks when you mostly end up policing your friends.

So that's my world aside from losing a boatload of money the last two days. Oh, and Kirby ripped out 12 feet of dripline irrigation while I was on the phone (having to be outside because I can't talk on my phone in the house during to crappy service). And Walgreens who I moved my prescription to is sitting on the prescription so I need to go in and explain the whole savings card nonsense.

Hope you all are having better days!

Greetings all

Great sunny day here. I am lazing about as DH is out so I can control the tv. (anybody remember "Outer Limits"?). I promised DH I would work with Poppy a bit today since she acts up so much on a walk. I think she is triggered by cats and dogs. Not sure how DH is responding but I think she just needs some leash manners.

Yeah Liz ditch the painful golf shoes. I have never tried Allbirds but will do so as all shoes hurt me. I am wearing some that are glued together because no new ones work. And yeah when I grow up I want to be Tina Turner and dance in a sparkly short dress.

DD get home safely. Glad you missed the worst of the weather. News reports for that area were awful. Interesting about the empty Memphis buildings . Some cities have done a great job of gentrifying older areas. Omaha sure has. Memphis needs a lesson.

Paula yay on exercise. Good work out. Keep it up. Exercise snacks or full on meals. Either works.

Heloooooo Ann. Thanks for the bidet info. Gotta admit I am a bidet virgin. Always wonder how one avoids water dripping down legs. But they are everywhere in Europe so must work. Don't tell my DH about this. He will want one. Derby week - just go to other people's parties. Is it hard to get tickets to the race?

DH will likely bring home Pizza from his lunch out. So be it. No cooking for me. Gotta stop at store for eggs and such. Wonder how many zillion dollars eggs cost this week?

Cheers. Diane S

At 120 I maintain at an average of 1350 calories a day.

Safe travels!