Winding down the 2018 season

Seventy days certainly goes by quickly.  We’re into Labor Day week-end and the place has come to life.  It was so quiet without children.  And I was in bed for 3 days with a cold this past week. Tonight is a Neil Diamond tribute program by Jay White, and then fireworks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gMGZ5yexw

So this summer we’ve had Elvis, and John Denver, and Karen Carpenter and Neil Diamond tributes.

I love my new hair style (curly perm), even if Bob is less than enthusiastic.  Especially like that I can walk in the wind or rain, quite common here on the lake, run my fingers through it and I’m ready to go. I’ve had a lot of compliments, got one today a month after the fact, which are rare these days.

I’d been having some foot problems with all my walking and exercise, so I looked up the symptoms, thought back to my change in size about 6-9 months ago, and decided to drive to Sandusky and buy an 8.5, same style, and it seems to help. I’m also going barefoot in the house.  Not sure why I had changed to an 8—maybe the 8.5 wasn’t available plus the 8 felt fine when I wore it.  It’s hard to find the shoe style I like—don’t like the ones with mesh.

I went to a great talk on the change in the nutrition labels on Monday and am now noticing—Bob bought me some cans of chicken noodle soup so I could eat something, and there it was!  The rest of the week’s programming looked good too, but I was asleep in the guest room.  A friend said the foreign films were among the best she’d seen (part of a program).

Yesterday I did walk to the rummage sale, and got a great deal on a painting/print (not sure which until we take it apart) by our deceased artist friend James DeVore. Tomorrow everything will be half price, and I saw a small mirror I’d like to pick up to keep in the bathroom vanity so I’ll probably go back.  One year at the ½ price sale, I got an 8 place setting of white china for $5! I can’t buy paper for that. Plus it was lovely. 

Our daughter and son-in-law have been living in our home while theirs is being remodeled, and she sent me a photo of the mums she planted at our condo. There’s no color yet, but it should look terrific later in the fall.   The impatiens had been decimated in a storm.  Looks nice.  They’ll be moving out this week-end now that their house is finished.  Well, finished for now.  In October they are getting new floors, but they won’t have to move out for that.  I think he starts upstairs and works down.  I would love to have our marble tile floors replaced, but Bob says no, too expensive. They are cracked, and there’s no sheen left.

I have to figure out how to use up our leftovers. A neighbor is having something this evening—pizza and we’re invited.   Bob was doing the shopping when I was sick, so we had to find someone who could use the milk we didn’t’ need that he bought--a half gallon of 1% milk. I think Sunday there is a barbeque on the hotel lawn. Monday evening we’re invited to the Barrises for dinner. We’re not leaving until Tuesday morning, but have a lot to do on Monday.  We’re usually not here for the holiday, so I’m watching the schedule and the frig.