Saturday and Dusting

I slept well last night and was up at 5:20AM..a little later then usual. I dressed and got  myself ready for the day and came in to check out the blog on the laptop. It was frozen solid so I just had to shut it down wrong. It took me two tries to get it to come back up. I don't know what's going on with this laptop but I hope it doesn't just die.

It seems to be working all right now. I need to go start my breakfast so I will leave it and hope it stays up all right.

I'm back and it's still working..so far. I have my breakfast and coffee here now so I will get on with the plan for the day. 

I will watch the weather on the 8's as usual and then see to the cats. The only plan for the day is to dust the apartment and water the flowers and perhaps finish my trimming...pretty dull,huh?

I tried to call Nancy a couple of times this week but she doesn't answer the phone. She had been expecting her daughter in law to make arrangements for her to make a trip out to see David. But nothing ever came of that plan. That depressed her terribly. So I imagine she is back to sleeping her life away. I will try to get her close to noon and she if she would like to go to lunch somewhere. That usually gets her out of these blue funks. Last week we planned to go to Bartlesville on Monday but she was never up to it when it came right down to it.In fact, I was never able to get her to answer the phone all week.

So, more later... 

It's after 8:00AM now and I have fed both Scruff and Blondie and when they finished I took the food dishes back into the garage and covered them. They are both gone now.

I have watered the flowers in the hanging baskets and had all my breakfast. I have been kind of watching the CBS news while playing solitaire on my phone ...not much new. I will read awhile until "Lucky Dog"comes on. I am not all that happy with the new couple who are training the dogs. I liked the other young man's approach much better. 

In about an hour I will try to call Nancy again. If she is willing, we could go to Bartlesville this morning.

I texted Leslie to ask her if she went to the concert last night...she did...she took the little girls. She had asked me, but I was afraid it would be too hot to be out there. But she said by 8:00PM when it actually started, it was quite nice. The paper said it would start at 6:00PM so that's when they went. 

I got the back yard trimmed before the trimmer battery went down. I have it on the charger now. I also swept off the little back door slab area.   It looks much better. It wasn't too hot to do that at 8:45AM.

  

A very full flowerbed!!

I also set the little solar kitty out to capture some rays but I took this photo before I set it out..

The hummingbirds are really going for that sugar water I set out earlier in the week. They are even quarreling over it.

Now back to the TV or the book. 

I read for awhile  and then got out my last puzzle and started laying it out. I worked on it until noon. Keith called while I was working on it and we visited awhile.I was so absorbed by the puzzle, time got away from me and I was supposed to text Esther after 9:30AM our time. So Keith called to check on me.

I fixed myself one of my chicken pot pies and had lunch. After lunch, Suzanne came and brought me the Reporters.After I read them, I put them in the small mailbox by my door for her to take to her sister in Bartlesville. She wanted to see my hanging plants. She had noticed the one out front. The one out back is even nicer.  I told her I water them morning and evening in this heat. That keeps them blooming.

It's 2:20PM now.  I may try to see Nancy again. I have some more reading material for her.

More later... 

I tried to call Nancy but she never answered.It rang seven times  Then I picked up the reading material I wanted to give her and went over to her house and rang the doorbell. 

She was talking to Dale, her cousin, on the phone. When she got off the phone, she opened the door for me. I went in and visited with her for 2 1/2 hours. She told me she had talked to David and he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She says he is going to have another surgery and he wants her to come out to see him. She is going to fly out August 4th and be gone a couple of weeks. If she didn't have bad luck, she wouldn't have any luck at all. He is her only child. 

We are planning to have lunch on Monday.

It's nearly time for the CBS news so I will get back to this later..

I couldn't watch the CBS news because there was another golf tournament going on. So I watched the ABC news instead.

It 7:00PM now and I want to take my bath. I will get back to this later.

I read until 8:30PM and then went on to bed. I was very tired.