Wednesday and A Good Night's Sleep

I slept pretty well last night after such a harrowing day. Getting Bill's two books finally downloaded on my Kindle was a good accomplishment but made for a thoroughly exhausting afternoon. I was determined that he was not going to pay for a gift I could not receive. It took a specialist, two reboots of the Kindle, one of them a factory reboot, to finally get them downloaded. I still think a big part of the problem was Amazon's two step security and perhaps Scott's different internet router.

I don't know what I will do today...mostly I watch the news as it unfolds. I have had a time with Scott's TV though. Sometimes I have a problem getting the sound to come on. I will try it again now. ......It worked fine this morning. I watch CNN for the very latest news and then turn to CBS for variety. CNN goes over and over the same thing...all day long. Today, Trump is going to declare Jerusalem the capitol of Israel and move our embassy there. That is going to ignite a lot of violence, not only in Jerusalem but everywhere.  And it will sabotage the peace process.

The only problem with my visit is that I spend a lot of time alone...with the animals, of course. I let them out from time to time... to do their business.  Scott usually comes home about 3:00 after he works out and/or runs.

Then we work on these dinners. Some of them are bears. They sometimes use terminology with which I am not familiar. .....such as zesting a lemon...I have no idea what that means. We had two meals this week that called for that.  Another problem is that Ginger has no blender and nearly every recipe calls for blending some ingredients. These are all vegetable recipes...no meat at all. They are attempting to eat healthy and low calorie. Meat, of course, has the bulk of the calories in a meal.

I am hoping Keith will contact me sometime today to fix the font on my Outlook 2016 program. It may be this evening after work and before Esther gets home from work. He has about an hour and a half at that time. 

More later...

Leslie called me and tried to fix that font but didn't have any more luck then I had. I did tell her I would try to take some photos of the house and the changes they had made since she and John were here last year. I will try to put them here.

This some of the ground cover they planted along the edge of their cliff. I hope it shows up better then it looks here.

Here is some more of it along the side of the pool.

These are the trees they planted along the west side to try to hide the huge house being built next door. They will grow taller to fide more in time.

This shows how close the large house next door is to their property. It also shows the new palm trees and plantings

This shows the new plantings next to their garage.

This shows the house from the street with Chloe snooping around. It also shows a view of the larger house next door. backed up right against their home. They are still working on that house. No telling when it will be finished.

Here is Scott..checking his phone while on our shopping trip last week in Jacksonville.

This is that house right next door.....going up. Notice the additional garages on the left with apartment above it. They are in the painting stage at that house now.

This is the kids' house from the street.


I may add more later...

Scott came in about 2:00 and I fixed another of those veggie meals. It was called Shakshuka and was mostly veggies. Freekah, onion, red pepper,  garlic, red kale, cumin, paprika, fire roasted tomatoes, cilantro leaves, and silken tofu. It was just fine but a lot of food. Scott ate all of his and some leftovers from day before yesterday too.

Here's a better photo that Scott sent to me.

This is the back of Scott and Ginger's home.

This is a photo of the front of Scott and Ginger's home that Scott took.

This the the back of their home lighted up at night.

And this is the front lighted up at night.

More later....

A gale of a wind came up this evening as we were watching a movie and water was blowing everywhere. Scott put the hurricane blinds down to keep everything from blowing away. We took a lot of old towels out and wiped everything off. I mopped the floor and we both wiped off the furniture.

He screwed the middle brace for the large hurricane blind back in so the middle large blind would be stronger.  Then we put the dog's blanket in the dryer to get it dry.

Keith called. He was in Denver waiting for his plane to arrive and to take off for Phoenix. We will try to get together to work on my mail program tomorrow sometime after he has had some time to spend  with Esther. He has been gone over a week and sounded exhausted!

I am going to take my bath now and get ready for bed..