Tuesday and Apartment Cleaning

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I slept well last night and was up shortly before 5:00AM, as usual.I made my bed and got myself ready for the day. Because we are cleaning the church on Thursday, I am cleaning my apartment today. I am having a couple of frozen toaster waffles for my breakfast this morning. I am not wild about them but they're better then nothing. Actually the second one was still frozen so I stuck it in the microwave for a few seconds, It's hot now. I will be so glad when I have oatmeal again. I will go to the market after I get my hair done tomorrow.

In a little while, after I check the weather forecast and see to the cats, I will wait until it's light out and water the flowers if the rain is not forthcoming today.

I have finished my breakfast and put my dish in the sink... now I will go turn on the TV. 

More later.... 

Sure enough, Blondie was out there looking for his breakfast. I took it out to him and when I got back in the house I saw that Scruff had joined him.They ate quickly and left.  I will leave it out there a little bit since they may come back for more.

I also caught "the weather on the 8's" and they have taken the rain out of the forecast today too. Today is to be 93 degrees and partly cloudy, Wednesday is to be 96  degrees and partly cloudy. Thursday is to be 97 degrees and sunny. Friday 97 degrees and sunny, Saturday is to be 98 degrees and sunny, Sunday is to be 100 degrees and sunny, and Monday is to be 102 degrees and mostly sunny. All the rain forecast is gone...how disappointing!

I guess I will bring in the cat food and cover it. They appear to be finished.

I got all the flowers watered this morning. I will do it again this evening.

 I have been watching the CBS news. 

When I finish this I will begin my cleaning with the mopping. 

I got the mopping finished and will rest a bit before beginning my vacuuming.

O.K. I got the bedroom, hall and den vacuumed but I am going to rest awhile until I start the living room and dining room. It's 8:20AM now.

I got the living room vacuumed and all I have left is the dining room. I will rest awhile before starting that. I have to move those heavy dining room chairs out of the way to vacuum that room.

I got the rest of the vacuuming done after I rested awhile. Everything is back the way it should be and the place is clean again. I dusted on Saturday so it should still be fine.

Shortly after noon, I went down to Copan Restaurant and had my small chef salad. That's the only thing that really appealed to me. I didn't want anything heavy and that and an iced tea is what I ended up having. It's always good and healthy too.

More even Later....

It's 3:44PM now and I just finished another murder mystery book. It never did rain but then I didn't expect it to after the forecast this morning.

I think I will go get a flurry at Mr.G's. That will reward me for all I got done today. :) It's 91 degrees today.

I went to get a flurry but their vanilla ice cream machine was broken again. They have had it repaired three times lately but now they are just going to buy a new one. So I went out to Sonic and bought something similar. It was good although not a flurry. It was a "blast".

Then I read again. I finished another book this afternoon. It's 6:11PM now and in another 50 Minutes, I will take my bath. Then at 9:00PM, I will go on to bed. 

Tomorrow my social security will come in and I will get my hair colored and cut over at Coffeyville. Then I will go out to Walmart and buy a few things I can't get here at our market including my school supplies for the Caney elementary school.. Then I will come back home. There's nothing going on at the senior center tomorrow after that.

Then on Thursday I will work out at the church with a group cleaning from 9:00AM until noon. I will need to take Windex. I was going to do the front door on Sunday but we had no window cleaner.

I will watch the CBS evening news before I take my bath.

Monday and a Visit With Nancy

I slept very well last night. I was so tired after being up so early yesterday morning. I went to bed at 8:00PM and  only woke up once in the night and took my meds and then got right back to sleep until 5:00AM. I made my bed and got myself ready for the day.

I will fix some more waffles for my breakfast this morning. In fact I may just have a breakfast bar and coffee and my usual Chai this morning. I am not particularly hungry for some reason.

I am doing my usual Monday morning laundry this morning too...my towels, pajamas and underwear. I just put it all in the dryer.

My left thumb is very sore and swollen this morning. If it doesn't calm down I may take some Aleve for the pain. If I do that, I will have to have a breakfast of some kind.I don't want to take Aleve on an empty stomach. I see I am out of breakfast bars too. I may have to break down and have waffles after all if I decide to take the Aleve.

I am out of my Omeprazole too but I will have to wait until Wednesday to buy it. The doctor has me taking that for my occasional acid stomach instead of Tums or Rolaids. 

It' s almost 6:00AM and I will go turn on the TV for the weather report and check to see if the cats are out there for breakfast.

So more later.... 

No  "weather on the 8's" yet and no cats yet either. It's still dark out there.. so maybe later...lots of dark clouds out there though. The rain isn't supposed to be until tomorrow but it sure looks foreboding today. It is getting lighter though. It is 6:15AM  now.

The forecast finally came on. Today is to be 100 degrees  and mostly cloudy, Tuesday is to be 95 degrees and AM Thunderstorms, Wednesday is to be 95 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Thursday is to be 97 degrees and sunny, Friday is to be 97 degrees and sunny, Saturday 98 degrees and sunny and Sunday 101 degrees and mostly sunny. So this week's forecast is a mixture of weather. I hope we get the two days of thunderstorms. That would be good for the grass which is mostly yellow now.

Still no cats.... 

Blondie came first and I took food out to him. and He barely ate though. He must have eaten at home. But Scruff did finally come and she ate and then they sat out at my front door and looked around. Every once in a while she comes back to the cat food and eats some more.

I see with the latest 6:58AM forecast they took the rain out of Wednesday's forecast. That just leaves one day of rain. Drat! 

It's 7:46AM right now. 

I went to the post office and bought a book of stamps. Then I sent off the congregation letters I wrote to those who were not there yesterday and that included the bulletins. I wanted them to have the prayer list and the announcements.

It's only 8:24AM now and I will not leave for Nancy's until almost 10:00AM. She is always still in bed when I get there no matter what time I get there. If no one came, she would sleep all the time. That's how she copes with her depression. 

More later... . I will go read awhile.

It's 9:45AM now and I am just getting ready to go to Nancy's. Be back later this afternoon.

More even later.... 

I got to Nancy's about 10:00AM and sure enough, she was still in bed asleep.I turned on the light and woke her up. She dressed and got herself ready to go to lunch. About that time, lightening struck and thunder boomed and the lights went off momentarily and then came right back on. That happened  a couple of times.

Then it started pouring down rain. The storm went on for an hour or so before clearing up. 

In the meanwhile, since neither of us had an umbrella, we decided to have lunch in their dining room and stay in and visit. And that's what I did. I left at 3:00PM and came back home. I had intended to take her to the Copan Restaurant and I told her we would do that next week.

We had a good lunch at the assisted living home.

While we were there a man fell flat getting out of his walker on wheels into a dining chair. They checked him over carefully but called the hospital and they picked him up in an ambulance to check him over more thoroughly at the emergency room. He was a tall man in his 90's. He had a large bruise on his right elbow and he said his right leg hurt. He had also hit his head on the floor.

I stopped at Miller Brothers in Dewey and had them fill my gas tank.

It had not rained a bit in Caney! So I began watering again. It's 3:54PM now and I just watered the front flowerbeds and now I watered the back flowerbeds.

It's 7:03 PM now...

More later..

I will clean my apartment tomorrow because we will be giving the church a very thorough cleaning on Thursday from 9:00AM until noon. When Cyndi moved to Joplin we lost our thorough church cleaner. I go in for an hour before church and do what I can in that little time but it's very superficial. The office needs cleaning and the kitchen needs a thorough cleaning and the storage rooms need it too. Leslie plans to do the costume room where we keep the things we use to decorate and do worship centers.

I took my bath and got my pajamas on and my robe and got myself ready to read awhile before I go to bed by 9:00PM.

I was reading a site about old Coffeyville and it finally froze up and I had to do a cold reboot on the laptop to get it to come back up. I am going to bed now. It is 10:11PM. 

Sunday and Church

 I slept very poorly last night. I must have been awake every hour on the hour after 1:00AM. I don't know what the trouble was...I just couldn't stay asleep. About 3:00AM I finally just got up. I was just tossing and turning.

I have dressed and am eating my breakfast here now. Since I am out of oatmeal, I am just having a couple of frozen toaster waffles. They are all right but nothing to write home about. But they are filling.

As usual, I will drive over to church in time to get  there at 10:00AM so I can sweep up whatever bugs have crawled in under the door. I also sweep off the walks and greet those who attend and hand out bulletins. I personally think it's important to have someone greet those who attend. We're thankful for each one that attends. The fellowship is good too.

Mike and Laura won't be there today or next week either. Mike works in Burlington at the atomic energy plant there. Every once in awhile he has to stay over the weekend a couple of weekends to work that shift.

It's 6:21AM now and both cats came for their breakfast so I fed them. Then I caught "the weather on the 8's".

Today is supposed to be 100 degrees and partly cloudy, Monday is to be 95 degrees and partly cloudy , Tuesday is to be 94 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Wednesday 95 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday 98 degrees and sunny, Friday to be 98 degrees and partly cloudy and Saturday 99 degrees and sunny.Another hot week. Only one day has rain in the forecast and that's Tuesday. It's August...what more can we expect?

More later... it's 6:25AM

It's almost 7:00AM now and I just finished watering the flowers in the back yard and picking up several dozen leaves there and sacking them. It's about the only exercise I get and I am sure it's good for me.

I had better water those in the front yard too. We have no rain in the forecast until Tuesday so I will need to water those flowers if they are going to live.

More even later....

I watered those in the front yard too and then read until time to leave for church..I left at 9:00AM and got there in plenty of time to  sweep up the bugs  and the mouse tracks and empty the trashes and put a new bag in the trash container.I bagged it up and I assume John took it.

 We all seven went to El Publito for lunch. I had a Casadea supreme and so did Karan. I couldn't eat all mine so I had it boxed up and brought it home. I may have the rest of it for supper. Karan took my rice.I am not a rice person. Melissa bought all of our lunches and we all just left the tip.That was good and generous of her.

I got home about 2:15PM and changed my clothes into something more casual.

More later... 

I sent out five letters to those that were not at church today inviting them to join with us next week and I sent out the bulletins too for the prayer list and the announcements. I hope it helps. I will need to get some more stamps tomorrow. I also sent a sympathy card to Billie Jo who lost her sister, brother-in-law and favorite cousin all in one month..

I also watered the flowerbeds and hanging plants again this evening both front and back,.

More later...

I have read most of the afternoon and then because I had recorded 60 Minutes, I watched the recording. I do that so I can delete the commercials.I find if I record programs I want to watch, I enjoy them much more.I hate commercials. Most of the them are ether pharmaceuticals, car dealerships,or furniture commercials.The ones I resent the most are the pharmaceuticals.Folks  don't seem to realize how expensive TV commercials are and the cost of the commercials are added into the cost of the meds. Of course that's true also of the auto commercials and even the furniture. Each 30 second TV commercial back in the 80's and 90's was over $250. each and that was on Pittsburg, Kansas TV. Just imagine what a network commercial would cost at today's costs. 

So I record what I want to watch today and delete the commercials as I watch the programs.

It's almost 8:00PM now and I will take my bath and put my pajamas on and read some more. I plan to go to bed at 9:00PM.

 

Saturday and No Particular Plan

I slept well last night again. I only woke up once and then I took my meds and went right back to sleep. I made my bed and dressed and got myself ready for the day.According to yesterday's forecast, it's supposed to be 101 degrees and sunny today so I will definitely have to water all the flowers again if I want to keep them alive.

Right now I am eating my breakfast here in the den..as usual. This is the last of my oatmeal though so tomorrow I will open the frozen waffles I have in the freezer and have waffles from the toaster for breakfast. I really don't want to go to the market and buy my groceries until I get my social security on Wednesday. I will have to buy water. I am on my last bottle.

It;s 6:15AM now and when I finish my oatmeal, I will go check on the  weather and the cats.. After it gets light, I will go out and water while it's still relatively cool. 

Both cats came for their breakfast and I fed them, they ate and then Scruff left. Blondie is still lying out there but is finished eating. 

Suzanne left papers again so after I get the weather forecast I will read the papers and then put them in the car for Karan tomorrow at church.

"The weather on the 8's" finally came on at 6:48AM and I took a photo on it with my phone. Today will be 101 degrees and partly cloudy, Tomorrow is to be 101 degrees too and  partly cloudy, Monday will be 95 degrees and partly cloudy,Tuesday's forecast is for 92 degrees and isolated thunderstorms, Wednesday's is to be 95 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday's is for 96 degrees and sunny, and Friday's is 97 degrees and mostly sunny. Another very hot week!

The only day there is even a forecast for rain is Tuesday. I know.. just because it's forecast doesn't mean we will actually get it. 

It's light out now and I will go water flowers.

I got the back flowers watered and even picked up leaves again. I am trying to keep the back yard free of them. And, of course, the bending exercise is good for me. 

Now I need to go water the front flowerbed and hanging container flowers.

I watered the front flowerbed and hanging pot too and have been watching the CBS morning news, I recorded. I can edit out the commercials that way. 

More even later... 

Instead of dusting yesterday, I did it today. It's a good thing I did too. There was quite a bit of dust in every room. I was amazed. I only missed one week of dusting. Anyhow it's nice and clean now. I used Old English polish. It's very good for the wood. 

I went out once again and picked up the leaves from the back yard. I won't be able to do it again today. It's up to 87 degrees now....fairly hot! I will sweep off the back door mat again though.

More later...I believe I will read again. The Kindle is charged now.

I went out to Eggbert's at lunch time and had my usual lunch.I still need to get water. But I haven't been the market yet.

It's 4:28PM now and I have been reading all afternoon. It's 99 degrees out there now.

More even later.... 

I asked Leslie, my daughter, to call me when he had time. That was at 2:49PM. She must be very busy. I had a piece of news  come on my phone and wanted to share it with her. She has often complained about their WiFi out there. There is a new WiFi booster called Signal Tech.It is usually $100 but if someone goes to their website and buys it there, it is $50.00. It makes a vast improvement in the WiFi signal according to the story I read online.. 

I am planning on taking my bath at 7:00PM. It is 6:42PM right now. I will read until 9:00PM then I will plan to go to bed.

 

Friday and Dusting

I slept pretty well last night although I did get pretty warm. I must have had the air set to high. I got up earlier this morning and turned it down to 75 degrees and then was comfortable. By then it was nearly 5:00AM so I just got up.

I am having my breakfast here in the den as usual. It's just now 5:49AM and it's too dark out to tell if it ever rained. It was only forecast for yesterday in the morning and it only sprinkled a little. Luckily I didn't trust it to rain and went ahead and watered all the plants...front and back. I am trying to keep them alive and blooming.

Today I plan to dust everything. I got all the mopping and vacuuming done yesterday but saved the dusting until today. After vacuuming, I am always pretty tired but at least with this vacuum I can do the whole apartment in one morning. The other one couldn't handle the new carpeting. It is so thick, it shut the sweeper down and I had to let it cool overnight to finish. Stephen brought me the one I have now. It is to stay with the apartment.

More later...I will go turn on the TV for the weather forecast and then check on the cats. 

When I opened the door, Blondie was there waiting.Before I could go get the cat food he ran across the street like he saw a rabbit. By the time he got there whatever it was was gone so he sat and waited for it to come back. He is still sitting there waiting. He must have caught whatever it was because he didn't come back.

I did catch the weather though. Today is supposed to be 101 degrees and mostly sunny,  Saturday is also supposed to be 101 degrees and sunny, Sunday is forecast for 99 degrees and mostly sunny, Monday is supposed to be 93 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Tuesday is to be 95 degrees and PM thunderstorms, Wednesday 92 degrees and AM thunderstorms, and Thursday is supposed to be 96 degrees and sunny. I sure hope those three days of thunderstorms will develop. Yesterday's sure didn't.

I see there is one cat out there and it may be Scruff. More later... 

No, it was Blondie. He evidently didn't catch whatever he went after. He ate cat food instead. Scruff is out there now and she is eating. Blondie moved away from the cat food and left her to it. 

I see the garage door opener light is out. I still have the ceiling light so no big deal. 

More later... It's only 76 degrees out there this morning. Pretty nice....Both cats are eating now. They share pretty well. Scruff always tries to move Blondie away from that side of the bowl. But he resists her effort. It's fun watching them. As long as he doesn't attack her, I leave them to work it out themselves. If he gets rough with her, I scold him and make him stop. He seldom tries that anymore.  

More later... 

I have a doctor's appointment next week  with Dr. Christensen in Coffeyville.  I checked into my supplement, Lumico, since I had to pay $122.00 for my doctor's bill six months ago. I learned there is a $233 annual deductible on my supplement policy. But the good news is when I pay that deductible each year, all additional costs are covered even if I have to go into the hospital for an illness of any kind. I talked to an independent broker who handles all sorts of insurance supplements about it and he told me it was an excellent plan and to be sure to keep it. The monthly premium is $140.25. Blue Cross/Blue Shield was $330.21 per month. Every agent I talked to told me that was outrageous. I had had it ever since I turned 62 and every couple of years the premium would go up.

I read this afternoon until 1:30PM when I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.I was out of frozen meals and won't go to the market until Wednesday. Peanut butter has lots of protein. Jelly has lots of sugar. :)

I went through my mail..such as it was. A renewal for my Consumer Reports magazine. And a catalog for clothing. All I have ever bought from them is pajamas.

I finished my book and downloaded three more to read. But it's 3:40 now and I need to do something else for a change.  And besides, the Kindle is back on the charger again.

More Later..

 

Thursday and Apartment Cleaning

I slept well again last night. I was up after 5:00AM and made my bed and dressed and got myself ready for the day. I haven't made my breakfast yet but that's next on the schedule. It's 6:02 now and I haven't even turned on the TV for the weather yet. And I haven't checked on the cats either. I think I will make my breakfast first though. I never did eat anything last evening. I had enough snack foods after Bunco to make up plenty of calories.

More in a little while. I need to get some breakfast.

I have my breakfast now and will eat it before checking on the weather and the cats. 

I have finished my breakfast and will go check out the weather now. It's 6:21AM.

I missed the weather if it even ran at 6:27AM. I did find both cats waiting for their food. I took it out and both cats ate their fill and left, I put the cat food back in the garage and covered it. Now I am waiting for the 6:38AM weather. 

I see Stephen stayed the night last night. It was probably too late to try to drive home to Owasso last night. 

They still haven't run the "weather on the 8's" yet. And it's 6:40AM now.

The weather finally ran at 6:48AM.

We have a 50% chance of rain today and it will be 97 degrees, Tomorrow  is forecast for 101 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday is to be 100 degrees and sunny, Sunday is to be 99 degrees and cloudy, Monday 95 degrees and PM thunderstorms, Tuesday is to be 91 degrees and partly cloudy. and Wednesday 94 degrees and sunny. Another hot week.coming. So far we haven't had the AM thunderstorms that are forecast for this morning. I hope we get it. It may cool it down to 97 degrees...if you can call 97 degrees cooler.

I guess I had better start my mopping if I am going to get my housework done this morning.

I got the mopping done and even vacuumed the bedroom, hall, and den. All I have left now is the living room and dining room. But I need to rest for awhile before I continue.

I went outside to water the back flowerbed and hanging plant and it is sprinkling. I will wait to water to see if the rain starts. In the meantime, I will rest and perhaps watch the CBS news. I am recording it so I can watch what I missed (and edit out the commercials) later. 

I went out again to water the backyard flowerbed and hanging pot and it was still just barely sprinkling. So I watered them anyhow. It may not rain. It has been sprinkling for an hour...so light you can barely feel it.   

Now I am going to vacuum the living room and dining room.

I got the vacuuming finished and will read now. I am very tired. It never used to take so much out of me to simply clean a 5 room apartment...but of course, I've never been 86 years old before either...almost 87...The years tell.

So, more even later...

I was going to read, but once again the Kindle needs to be charged. So I put it on the charger. It will take some time to charge it. In the meantime, I have nothing new to read. I guess I can work on my sermon for the 21st.

I got that worked out.

It never did rain...just sprinkled a little. Now the sun is shining brightly and it's 80 degrees and getting warmer. I'll bet we won't get rain after all. We had a 50% chance of rain this morning but it doesn't look like it will develop. And it's 10:27AM already. It's a good thing I watered the flowerbeds and hanging plants earlier.

I went out and cleaned up my back yard again. I put the leaves in a plastic grocery sack and will put that in the trash barrel. It will have to be done several times before the leaves stop falling but it's good bending exercise for me. I know I need some exercise.

Leslie called me earlier and gave me some news about John and her.

I just had a text from Stephen, my landlord,  he said he really enjoyed the coffeecake I made for him last evening. He had two pieces last night. I wanted to do something for him. He has done so much for me. He mowed the shaggy part of my yard last evening...after he had mowed all of his own. I had intended to wait until later in the evening and mow it myself. He didn't think I ought to do that and volunteered to do it for me. Krystal, my usual mower, couldn't do it last night. Her girls had softball practice and she needed to be there and we were expecting rain today. Then he cleaned out the guttering of both apartments. And he cleaned up the mess.

He had a big evening after working all day too.

 So more later.....I am going to check on the Kindle on the charger. 

The Kindle was fully charged so I opened it and downloaded another book. I read all afternoon and finished that book. It is 4:33PM now and I may go buy a small flurry for my supper.I had a frozen Mexican meal for my lunch.

I did go get a small flurry and it was very good. A small flurry is only $3.29 and you can hardly beat that price and it's filling.

More even later.... 

It's 6:20PM now and I will get ready to take my bath at 7:00PM and put my pajamas on and download another free book from Amazon and read some more until bedtime at 9:00PM.

Tomorrow is Friday and I will dust the apartment. That all the housework I need to do. I have everything else done today. The garage is even clean.

 

 

Wednesday and Bunco

I slept well again last night and finally, after hours, the temperature finally got down to 75 degrees in here. I also had the new ceiling fan on and that helps too. 

Suzanne had told me to open the den door and the air would circulate better. I tried that and she was right, It did. 

I got up shortly before 5:00AM and made my bed and got myself ready for the day. I am eating my breakfast here in the den this morning as usual. It's only 5:32AM and I doubt the cats would be out there this early. I will check at 5:45AM when I turn on the TV for the weather.

And this morning, my hair appointment is at 9:00AM.

So More Later.... 

I turned on the TV and "the weather on the 8's" came on almost immediately. I grabbed my phone and took photos of it.

Today will be 102 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday will be 98 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Friday is forecast to be 101 degrees and sunny, Saturday's forecast is for 100 degrees and sunny, Sunday is to be 100 degrees and mostly sunny, Monday is to be 94 degrees and isolated thunderstorms and Tuesday's forecast  94 degrees and partly cloudy. That's the week. At least there is some rain in the forecast this next week....this Thursday and next Monday. Otherwise, it will be very hot!

Both cats were out there waiting for their breakfast and I took it out to them. I think they are finished now. I will check. I want to get their food in before the ants find it. 

They were both gone. Scruff wasn't even under the hedge as she usually is. Quite a bit of the food was gone too.  So they must have had their fill.

It's only 6:41AM and I won't leave until 8:30AM or so. No sense getting over there too soon. It would be just that much longer to sit at the library and read until 1:00PM. I won't have lunch. There will be lots of treats at Bunco at the senior center.

I won't be able to have Krystal mow this week. I have just enough cash to pay for my hairdo today. ...$12.00. That raise in my car insurance really took a toll on my budget this month. I won't get my social security until next Wednesday. I will need to be careful. I bought groceries and gas this week so I should be fine.

I will need to water the plants again today... morning and evening. The rain is not forecast until tomorrow. 

I watered the flowerbed in the back and the hanging flowerpot too. Then I picked up several hundred leaves from my back yard  and tossed them over the south fence into the yard where the tree is located. It won't do any good because the leaves are still falling but it is good bending exercise. Lord only knows I need all the exercise I can get after sitting day after day reading  for the past two years. Now I need to go water the flowerbed at the mailbox and the hanging plant at the front door.

I got that done and everything has been watered until evening.  

 So more even later...

I got my hair done about 9:15AM and then went to the library to read. I read until time to go to the senior center to play Bunco.

We played Bunco until 3:00PM and I won with the most Buncos. David gave me $10.00 for that. I only had four dollars so that gave me some more money until next Wednesday when I get my social security. That raise in my car insurance really hurt my July budget. I had a good time and enjoyed the fellowship too.

It's 3:43PM now and I have been reading and it is 5:02 PM now. I haven't eaten anything for lunch or dinner yet. I just had the treats that were brought for the Bunco game. I may go buy a kid's Wacky Pack for $2.18 out at Sonic. That would give me something for supper. 

I contacted Krystal to see if she could mow for me this evening since we are forecast for rain tomorrow. She is at softball practice for her girls and can't do it. I think I will wait until later this evening and try to do it myself. I can wait until almost dark to do it. I will start with the back. It's the smallest...and see how it goes.  It needs to be done. It's been over a week.

More later....

I went out front to water the flowers and Stephen was out there cleaning out the guttering. He had been mowing and was soaked with sweat. He said he always does that. I told him when it got cooler this evening I was going to mow my yard starting with the back yard. And I was going to wait until it cooled down quite a bit before I did it. He volunteered to do what little I had...mostly around the edges where it has grown. He said not to try to mow it myself. Most of it has not even grown because of the heat but it was mostly just shaggy around the edges. He insisted on doing it himself. I am going to bake him some Cinnamon Swirl Crumb Cake to take home and share with Dee Anna and eat with their coffee.

He is also  going to clean out our guttering too and try to put the type on our guttering that lets the water drain and the leaves just wash off. I forget what it's called. We had it on our guttering over on Catalina in Coffeyville. It may have been called weather tech. I just don't recall.I see commercials about it from time to time.I will write it down next time I see the commercial.

More later...

About another ten minutes and that coffee cake will be done.I imagine Stephen wants to get home so just as soon as it is, I will take it over to him.

Then I will take my bath, put my pajamas on and read some more.

I plan to go to bed at 9:00PM as usual..unless I get into this book and can't put it down.  

Perhaps more later... 

I got the coffeecake out of the oven and took it over to Stephen. 

Now I am going to trim on my hedge before I take my bath. 

I got the hedge trimmed a little and now I'm going to take my bath.

I took my bath and put my pajamas on and now I will read for awhile before I go to bed.

My granddaughter, Christina, texted me this evening with her new telephone number. I entered it  into my phone. We texted back and forth for awhile.